Investors / United States / Character
Character
Venture capital · Milwaukee, WI, United States · North America
Character is a boutique venture fund that invests in frontier applications of software and runs sprint methods such as the Design Sprint and Foundation Sprint with founders. It also operates Character Labs, an accelerator focused on product-market fit that invests $200k in up to 15 teams twice a year.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaisoftwareproduct-market-fitdesign-sprintacceleratorfrontier-tech
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Or find every investor that fitsCharacter lists 35 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Healthcare & Biotech (14%) and Fintech (12%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners and Collaborative Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Character, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Character's whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 35. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 73th | 35 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 10 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Correlation Ventures | 2 |
| Crosslink Capital | 2 |
| Flying Fish Ventures | 2 |
| Innovation Endeavors | 2 |
| LRVHealth | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers35100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Character head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Character| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 23 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 7 May 2025 | Series A | |
| 13 Dec 2023 | Seed |
Round details for Character
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Character's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
35 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amari provides a platform to help global trade teams coordinate work and make decisions with a full picture of conversations, operational signals, and business rules | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Apoxy provides secure and fast connectivity for clusters, clouds, and sandboxes | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| AutoManus builds proactive AI agents that execute and finish the job | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Axion Orbital provides continuous optical-grade intelligence from all-weather radar data for analysts. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bind Ai provides AI-powered insurance solutions for brokers and businesses to automate and streamline their workflows | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building a system that can design any molecule, starting with pesticides. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Brief captures decisions where they happen, connects them into one graph, and acts on them across all product stages | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Comend provides a research platform for genetic conditions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CTGT is an applied interpretability lab that examines the behavior of frontier models and constrains them to complex organizational policy | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI agents to automate operational tasks for commercial contractors. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides document processing infrastructure for AI agents to parse, extract, split, and verify documents with high accuracy. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fathom summarizes meetings so users can focus on the conversation. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Fineras is an AI-native corporate finance platform. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Folia Health is a health tracking app that helps people with chronic conditions track their health and provides valuable structured data insights to support research and personalized care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Great Question provides a user research platform and UX research software | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Hatch is an AI-powered prospect research platform that empowers nonprofits to strategically identify high-value prospects, foster engagement, and maximize fundraising impact. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| House Rx equips in-house pharmacies with a platform for faster fulfillment and better communication | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Hypernatural creates AI videos from prompts to post in minutes with its end-to-end video editor. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Jul 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Inductive Bio develops and applies chemical intelligence for drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2023Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Intermezzo provides a global payroll platform using AI to automate and validate payroll calculations and regulatory tracking in a single API. | FintechHuman Resources | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- character.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 13 Dec 2023
- Companies checked
- 35
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