Investors / United States / DFJ Growth
DFJ Growth
Venture capital · San Mateo, CA, United States · North America
DFJ Growth is a venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage technology companies, partnering with founders as they scale. It was formed in 2005 to fill the funding gap between early-stage venture capital and the public markets.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfrontier techaispacedeep techgrowth stage
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Or find every investor that fitsDFJ Growth lists 38 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 15 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 79% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (25%), Healthcare & Biotech (18%) and Cybersecurity (11%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund and Lux Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name DFJ Growth, 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 DFJ Growth's whole history. Rounds on record name 15 companies; its own site lists 38. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 21% |
| Growth | 79% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 2 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 8 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 76th | 38 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 25% 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 | 25% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital | 8 |
| Founders Fund | 6 |
| Lux Capital | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| General Catalyst | 5 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 5 |
| Valor Siren Ventures | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers38100%
- 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 togetherCompare DFJ Growth 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 DFJ Growth| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Series B |
Round details for DFJ Growth
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in DFJ Growth's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
38 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alchemy provides blockchain infrastructure for developers | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Oct 2021Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2022Series C+ | Funding round | |
| BigHat Biosciences designs and develops therapeutics by integrating AI with autonomous generation of biological data. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| The Boring Company designs and manufactures tunnel boring machines and builds transportation systems | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Apr 2022Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Aug 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |||
| Cellares manufactures cell therapies and provides related services and technologies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Collective Health provides self-funded employer health benefits and administration services | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides blood-based lung cancer screening tests using AI and whole-genome sequencing technology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Formlabs manufactures and sells 3D printers and related materials and software. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a customer service platform powered by AI for teams and agents to work together. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jan 2018Series B | Page + round | |
| Glowforge makes and sells 3D laser printers for cutting, engraving, and scoring various materials. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Goodfire helps users understand and debug their AI models by uncovering the hidden representations inside them | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Helix provides voice verification services to confirm the age and identity of individuals | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Impulse Space develops and operates vehicles to move payloads across and between orbits in space. | Space & Defense | Sept 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Innovium provides a platform to orchestrate AI-native research and development workflows | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an open agent platform for developing and improving AI agents. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Nov 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Mapbox provides maps, navigation, search, and data services for various industries and applications. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Modular provides artificial intelligence inference products and services from kernel to cloud | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Round | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- dfjgrowth.com
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Jan 2018
- Companies checked
- 38
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