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Cistern Capital
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Cistern Capital is a venture firm that invests in startups addressing health challenges such as chronic disease, mental illness, and environmental harm. It backs purpose-led founders building wellness products and services across the eight dimensions of wellness.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordswellnesshealthtechmental healthconsumer healthfood and beveragelongevity
Your fit with Cistern Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsCistern Capital lists 31 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (41%), Food & Agriculture (14%) and Enterprise Software (12%). 69% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside General Catalyst, Accel and Actions Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cistern Capital, 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 Cistern Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 31. 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 roundCistern Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| 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 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 69th | 31 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 76th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 41% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 14% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 5% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 2% | 4% |
| Climate & Energy | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| General Catalyst | 2 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Actions Capital | 1 |
| Alkeon Capital | 1 |
| AlleyCorp | 1 |
| Almaworks | 1 |
| Annox Capital | 1 |
| Antler | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers31100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with General Catalyst
Compare Cistern Capital 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 Cistern Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Cistern Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cistern Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
31 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Chestnuts delivers gourmet plant-based soups | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Alya Health sells olive oil products, particularly a high-polyphenol olive oil, for health and wellness purposes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aura provides digital protection services to keep individuals and families safe from online security risks and identity theft. | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Axo Longevity offers a membership that includes biomarker testing and a personalized health and wellbeing plan. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Birches Health provides online therapy for treating various addictions, including gambling and sex addiction. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Blue Light Health provides therapy to support a healthier relationship with technology for families and individuals affected by screen overuse, gaming, social media, and online behaviors. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cubtale is a personalized parenting platform supporting families from trying to conceive through pregnancy, baby, and beyond. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyclarity develops easy-to-use drugs that prevent common age-related conditions such as atherosclerosis, heart-attack and stroke by addressing the root cause - a build-up of arterial plaque. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates AI-driven ingredient transparency and tagging solutions for food tech and hospitality | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| FoodNerd makes and sells organic fruit and veggie puffs for young children. | Food & Agriculture | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Gourmend Foods produces and sells low FODMAP broths, seasonings, and salts. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Helo uses dynamic AI analysis of individual biodata to provide personalized supplements and offers technology loaded wearables | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Hibiscus Health offers a 30-second face scan to screen for cardiometabolic risk | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The Zone helps coaches and athletes prepare the mind as much as the body | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Juvenescence is a clinical-stage drug development company dedicated to extending healthy lifespan through innovative medicines. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Khalo produces and sells seasoning pastes with prebiotic spices and superfoods to support gut health. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Lucid provides a platform for businesses to document their current state, identify new opportunities, and design their future state using AI-powered capabilities. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| MoneyStack provides financial counseling to individuals and families to help them manage money and reduce stress, particularly those facing financial problems related to mental health or major life events. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| NOCTEM Health provides digital insomnia care software for sleep clinics and healthcare providers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Outro Health helps people safely stop taking antidepressant medication with personalized taper plans and support from licensed clinicians. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- cistern-capital.com
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 31
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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