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Differential Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Differential Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, data-centric B2B technology companies. It writes initial checks of $250,000 to $3,000,000 and reserves capital for follow-on investments.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
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Or find every investor that fitsDifferential Ventures lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Fintech (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 44% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Green Egg Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Differential Ventures, 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 Differential Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 29. 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 | 80% |
| Series A | 20% |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 80% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 84th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Fintech | 19% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Human Resources | 8% | 1% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 4 |
| Green Egg Ventures | 4 |
| Blackhorn Ventures | 2 |
| Lightscape Partners | 2 |
| Lorimer Ventures | 2 |
| RiverPark Ventures | 2 |
| Verissimo Ventures | 2 |
| 14Peaks Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2793%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company27%
- 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 Differential Ventures 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 Differential Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 25 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Differential Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Differential Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | |||
| Aktus AI deploys AI workers for alternative asset management, providing services such as portfolio operations, fund administration, and tax accounting. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Armilla AI provides liability insurance for companies that build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Bazze is an intelligence targeting and early warning platform that provides commercial data to defense and intelligence agencies | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Carver Edison helps public companies deliver equity to employees while reducing stock-based compensation expense and dilution | FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds a deterministic AI platform for resilient and cost-efficient supply chains. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an artificial intelligence platform for electronics design and verification | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Cognota provides a platform for workforce enablement teams to manage requests, capacity, and programs in one connected ecosystem. | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyolo provides a unified platform for secure remote privileged access and zero trust microsegmentation to protect critical operations | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyvers manages data types and provides real-time detection and prevention of threats | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FlowFi is where entrepreneurs and owners find verified accountants, CFOs, and HR specialists | FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Limina provides data de-identification services to remove personal data from text, images, audio, and documents | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Orchestra provides a unified control plane for data and AI orchestration | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Valence AI helps companies understand how their customers feel through emotion AI for voice analysis | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Golioth provides infrastructure as code for IoT devices, allowing companies to build and launch connected hardware products. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hatch is an AI-powered prospect research platform that empowers nonprofits to strategically identify high-value prospects, foster engagement, and maximize fundraising impact. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Knockri assesses skills and creates hiring efficiency with its AI interview platform | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Konnecto provides partnership intelligence and affiliate insights to help companies discover and qualify partnerships based on performance data | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Metafold provides software for tolerance analysis in 3D assembly design | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- differential.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 25 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 29
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