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Contour Venture Partners
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Contour Venture Partners is a New York City based seed stage venture capital firm founded in 2005. It invests in seed and early stage companies providing innovative software solutions, and its principals take board roles and support portfolio companies through later rounds.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsenterprise saasvertical b2b saasfinancial servicesdigital mediaseed stagenew york city
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Or find every investor that fitsContour Venture Partners lists 67 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Fintech (18%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, Sapphire Ventures and The MBA Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Contour Venture Partners, 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 Contour Venture Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 67. 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 | 40% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 40% |
| Growth | 20% |
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 | 6 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 67 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 66th | 40% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 62th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 14th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 10 |
| Sapphire Ventures | 4 |
| The MBA Fund | 4 |
| Cross Creek | 3 |
| Dorm Room Fund | 3 |
| NYC Seed | 3 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 3 |
| AlleyCorp | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6293%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company57%
- 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 Contour Venture Partners 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 Contour Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 19 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Contour Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Contour Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
67 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alteryx provides a platform for automating data workflows and analytics, including data preparation, reporting, and AI-powered insights. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
| ARIX Technologies delivers robotic inspection for corrosion under insulation as a managed service | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Carda Health provides virtual cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Compyl provides a platform for governance, risk, and compliance management | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Contently creates and manages content for companies in regulated industries | FintechMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Covr simplifies insurance for financial brands and their clients | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Crop Diagnostix uses plant RNA to detect stress in plants before it becomes visible | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cutover provides a collaborative automation platform for IT disaster recovery, cloud disaster recovery, and other related services. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cylera provides IoT asset intelligence and security solutions | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Datadog provides a platform for monitoring and security of cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Degreed provides a learning and upskilling platform with AI-powered solutions for workforce development | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Dstillery provides predictive AI audience targeting for digital campaigns | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| EFEX provides global treasury services for businesses, including international transfers, multi-currency accounts, and currency exchange solutions. | FintechFintech | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Evermed helps medical associations launch and operate a Netflix-style content library | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company allows users to send money to Latin America via WhatsApp | Fintech | Sept 2026Series B · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| FEVO makes it easy to build, buy and share events, the way live-events are meant to be experienced. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- contourventures.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 67
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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