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Deming Center Venture Fund
Venture capital · Boulder, CO, United States · North America
The Deming Center Venture Fund is a student-led venture capital fund that provides an applied educational experience in venture capital for graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder. Students perform due diligence, interact with entrepreneurs, present to advisory board members, participate in investment decisions, and monitor investments.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscoloradostudent-ledventure capitalentrepreneurshipeducation
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Or find every investor that fitsDeming Center Venture Fund lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Healthcare & Biotech (11%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (11%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Techstars and Antler.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Deming Center Venture Fund, 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 Deming Center Venture Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 20. 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 roundDeming Center Venture Fund 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 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% 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 | 26% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 5% |
| Legal & Compliance | 6% | 2% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Techstars | 3 |
| Antler | 2 |
| Buff Gold Ventures | 2 |
| Denver Ventures | 2 |
| FirstMile Ventures | 2 |
| Service Provider Capital | 2 |
| Stout Street Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers20100%
- 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 Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Deming Center Venture Fund 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 Deming Center Venture Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Deming Center Venture Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Deming Center Venture Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOPA develops cutting-edge autonomous tech solutions tailored specifically for small and midsize farmers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Biota provides real-time PFAS data and testing solutions to support companies in the PFAS remediation industry. | Enterprise SoftwareHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| CaliberMind unifies marketing measurement for enterprise B2B go-to-market teams dealing with fragmented data. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CisLunar Industries develops and manufactures power processing technology for space operations | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| DifferentKind provides a platform for dentistry to improve operations, retention, and network quality using verified patient experience data. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Driven Plastics turns plastic waste into an asphalt additive to improve road quality and extend pavement lifespan | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Fueled manages first-party data for eCommerce marketers to run successful campaigns | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| GelSana Therapeutics develops wound healing solutions using zwitterionic technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Great Sky develops hardware and systems for artificial intelligence computing using physics-based approaches. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Tilt provides a platform for managing employee leave | Human ResourcesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Instinct Environmental develops and provides automated acoustic wildlife surveying devices for real-time wildlife monitoring | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Outway provides software for field teams to manage parks, trails, and land | ConsumerLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Seasats develops and produces autonomous ocean vessels for surveillance and monitoring missions | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Simple Homes improves the speed, cost, and reliability of wood-frame construction through integrated design and offsite manufacturing | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| StrideTech develops and sells smart walker attachments to help older adults with mobility and balance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| TermScout analyzes and benchmarks agreements and generates contract signals to help teams reduce negotiation friction and act on contract signals with greater confidence | Legal & ComplianceSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides shared kitchen management software to automate scheduling, billing, and booking for commercial kitchens | Food & AgricultureSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Manifest makes optical elements in one continuous volumetric step using proprietary Parallax Volumetric Manufacturing technology. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Pepper sells bras and other clothing items, such as underwear and swimwear. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Yonomi provides a cloud-based connectivity platform for technology alliances to interface with connected devices from Allegion's brands | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- colorado.edu
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 20
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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