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Cintrifuse

Venture capital · Cincinnati, OH, United States · North America

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Cintrifuse is a Cincinnati-based organization that runs founder development programming, community events, talent support, coworking space at Union Hall, and capital support through its venture arm, Cintrifuse Capital. Cintrifuse Capital makes direct investments and also invests as a fund of funds in top venture capital funds.

Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning

In its own wordsstartup ecosystemfounder developmentfund of fundscoworkingtalentmidwest

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7portfolio companies
3funding rounds on record
1rounds, last 12 months
$20M to $100Mtypical round it comes in at
Seedmost frequent entry

Cintrifuse lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (27%), AI & Machine Learning (27%) and Consumer (9%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside General Catalyst, Accel and Bowery Capital.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Cintrifuse, 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 round
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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed67%
Series A0%
Series B33%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Investor profile

percentile among all firms
Portfolio size: 7 companiesRecent activity: 1 rounds in 12 monthsEarly stage: 67% of entries at pre-seed or seedEvidence: 0% of companies confirmed by a roundSector focus: 27% in its largest sectorReach: 1 countryPortfolio size12th pctRecent activity59th pctEarly stage80th pctEvidence52th pctSector focus43th pctReach19th pct
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Cintrifuse compared with all firms
MeasurePercentile of all firmsValue
Portfolio size12th7 companies
Recent activity59th1 rounds in 12 months
Early stage80th67% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence52th0% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus43th27% in its largest sector
Reach19th1 country

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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Investment themes
This firmAll checked companies
Healthcare & Biotech27%15%
AI & Machine Learning27%18%
Consumer9%3%
E-commerce & Marketplaces9%6%
Cybersecurity9%4%
Media & Entertainment9%4%
Education9%7%

Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers7100%
  • 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.

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
General Catalyst2
Accel1
Bowery Capital1
Creator Fund1
EPIC Ventures1
Foster Ventures1
Hitachi Ventures1
Jetstream1

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Compare Cintrifuse head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Cintrifuse
DateCompanyStage
3 Mar 2026Illumeillumecandles.comSeed
9 Oct 2025kernelkernel.shSeed
4 Aug 2025pantomath.compantomath.comSeries B

Round details for Cintrifuse

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cintrifuse's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

7 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
Deep Variancedeepvariance.com · United StatesDeep Variance develops an auto-tuning inference stack and enterprise deployments for high-quality agentic AI video production on open-source models.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
Portfolio page
Illumeillumecandles.com · United StatesThe company produces and sells candles and other bath and beauty products.
Consumer
Mar 2026SeedFunding round
kernelkernel.sh · United StatesThe company provides browser infrastructure for web agents and automations
E-commerce & MarketplacesHealthcare & Biotech
Oct 2025SeedFunding round
MyFutureSelfmyfutureselfapp.comMyFutureSelf is an AI mentor modeled on the person you want to become.
AI & Machine LearningEducation
Portfolio page
pantomath.compantomath.com · United StatesPantomath provides a data operations center that monitors and manages an organization's data analytics ecosystem using AI-powered automation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
Aug 2025Series BFunding round
Plasmoleplasmole.comPlasmole provides an operating system for molecular biology labs to design sequences, plan experiments, analyze results, and document work in one connected workspace.
Healthcare & Biotech
Portfolio page
SurgicalRxsurgicalrx.com · United StatesSurgicalRx provides remote orthopedic MSK and metabolic care to patients before and after surgery
Healthcare & Biotech
Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 8 Nov 2026
The homepage of Cintrifuse, as last read
cintrifuse.com as VCinfo last read it
Site
cintrifuse.com
Last read
8 Nov 2026
Watching since
6 Nov 2026
Rounds since
4 Aug 2025
Companies checked
7

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