Investors / United States / Discerning Capital
Discerning Capital
Venture capital · Las Vegas, NV, United States · North America
Discerning Capital is an investment firm with growth equity and private credit strategies. It invests in companies, teams, technologies, and brands in regulated gaming and its surrounding ecosystems.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesGaming
In its own wordsgamingonline gamingsports bettingmediatechnologyprivate credit
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Or find every investor that fitsDiscerning Capital lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (25%), Gaming (25%) and Fintech (13%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Acies Investments, Boston Seed Capital and Capital Factory.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Discerning Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 99th | 40% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 36th | 25% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Acies Investments | 1 |
| Boston Seed Capital | 1 |
| Capital Factory | 1 |
| Collab+Currency | 1 |
| Connetic Ventures | 1 |
| Crosslink Capital | 1 |
| Fin Capital | 1 |
| Hyderabad Angels Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 25% | 6% |
| Gaming | 25% | 1% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 13% | 4% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Acies Investments
Compare Discerning Capital 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 Discerning Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 7 Dec 2025 | Series A Led | |
| 6 Oct 2025 | Debt |
Round details for Discerning Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Discerning Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company builds athlete-driven media networks to connect brands with college sports fans | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Oct 2025Debt · 2 rounds | Page + round | |||
| Outlier provides tools and analysis for sports betting, including player prop bets and odds calculators. | GamingEnterprise Software | Dec 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides a marketplace for buying and selling casino games and parts, as well as related services | GamingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Yaspa provides instant bank payment solutions to businesses and individuals. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- discerningcap.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
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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