Investors / Cape Fear Ventures
Cape Fear Ventures
Venture capital
Cape Fear Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that backs founders solving hard, physical-world problems. It provides capital, operating experience, and technology judgment to early-stage companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsenterprise softwareapplied aidefensenational securityspaceearly stage
Your fit with Cape Fear Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsCape Fear Ventures lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (75%) and Education (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Collaborative Fund, Creative Destruction Lab and FullCircle.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cape Fear Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Collaborative Fund | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| FullCircle | 1 |
| HAX | 1 |
| Hypernova Capital | 1 |
| IDEA Fund Partners | 1 |
| IndieBio | 1 |
| NC Tweener Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 75% | 18% |
| Education | 25% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Collaborative Fund
Compare Cape Fear Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cape Fear Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Cape Fear Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cape Fear Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juno Propulsion develops new rocket engine technology using rotating detonation engines | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Skillmaker is an AI-powered XR workforce development platform that provides training for workforce development | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- capefear.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 2
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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