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Connecticut Innovations
Venture capital · New Haven, CT, United States · North America
Connecticut Innovations is Connecticut's strategic venture capital arm, providing financing and ongoing support to innovative, growing companies. It also runs funding programs such as an angel investor tax credit program and SSBCI technical assistance.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsbiotechitartificial intelligencequantumclimatetechdeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsConnecticut Innovations lists 180 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 19 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (35%), AI & Machine Learning (11%) and Fintech (11%). 81% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Elm Street Ventures and LaunchCapital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Connecticut Innovations, 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 Connecticut Innovations' whole history. Rounds on record name 19 companies; its own site lists 180. 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 | 6% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 22% |
| Series B | 17% |
| Growth | 6% |
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 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 16 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 180 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 17 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 56% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 35% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 7 |
| Elm Street Ventures | 7 |
| LaunchCapital | 5 |
| Amplifyher Ventures | 3 |
| Foothill Ventures | 3 |
| Outsiders Fund | 3 |
| Thynk Ventures | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17798%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company32%
- 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 Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Connecticut Innovations 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 Connecticut Innovations| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Connecticut Innovations
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Connecticut Innovations' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
180 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company sells hemp-derived THC and CBD products online. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AbbraTech discovers and engineers antibodies against disease targets using its Epivolve platform technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aceiss protects against cyber attacks by revealing unauthorized use of employee access to company systems. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Adaptive Insurance provides specialty insurance for climate and weather risk | FintechClimate & Energy | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Advanced Telepsych Inc provides virtual mental health services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aeromics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a therapy for severe, acute ischemic stroke | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Allyx Therapeutics is developing oral small molecule therapies to treat Alzheimer's disease and neurodegeneration | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AmpUp makes EV charging easy for fleets, workplaces, multifamily communities, and public sites. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Apriligen develops therapies for pediatric monogenic illnesses that have no cure. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arccos tracks every aspect of a golfer's game to help them improve | ConsumerGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Arvinas develops targeted protein degradation therapeutics for serious diseases, particularly in neurology and oncology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Asarasi Inc harvests and sells water from the sap of maple trees as a sustainable and renewable resource. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells non-alcoholic beer | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| AtlasXomics brings chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, and gene expression into spatial context for researchers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Better Rhodes sells non-alcoholic drinks and beverages, including wine, beer, and spirits. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Bexorg develops a platform for drug discovery using AI and whole-human brain technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Biohaven is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of life-changing treatments in key therapeutic areas including immunology, obesity, neuroscience and oncology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| BioWave develops and provides neuromodulation products for pain relief | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bloom Credit provides technology and data to help financial institutions make lending decisions and manage credit | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- ctinnovations.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 180
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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