Investors / United States / Disruptive
Disruptive
Venture capital · Dallas, TX, United States · North America
Disruptive is a global investment firm that backs private technology companies. It invests through primary, secondary and structured transactions, partnering with founders and management teams through growth, scale and liquidity stages.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
In its own wordsartificial intelligenceinfrastructuredefense technologyenterprise softwaretechnology
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Or find every investor that fitsDisruptive lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 71% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (58%), Cybersecurity (17%) and Enterprise Software (17%). 86% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Inertia Ventures, IronArc and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Disruptive, 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 | 14% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 71% |
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 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 6 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 88th | 58% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Inertia Ventures | 3 |
| IronArc | 3 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 3 |
| 645 Ventures | 2 |
| Battery Ventures | 2 |
| CRV | 2 |
| Center15 Capital | 2 |
| E1 Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 58% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 17% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 8% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Inertia Ventures
Compare Disruptive head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Disruptive| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 17 Aug 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 9 Oct 2025 | Series B | |
| 17 Sept 2025 | Series C+ Led |
Round details for Disruptive
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Disruptive's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baz provides an AI code review platform that reviews plans, pull requests, security, and merge readiness with AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Groq operates a cloud platform for running AI inference, built on its own LPU chips and combined with NVIDIA GPUs. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2025Series C+ · 3 rounds | Funding round | |
| Jul 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |||
| The company develops and provides open artificial intelligence models and related software and infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Shield AI develops and uses autonomous aircraft and intelligent systems for defense and other applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Shift5 provides operational intelligence solutions for vehicles and fleets, including predictive maintenance and threat detection. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Skild Ai builds artificial intelligence to control robots for various tasks in the physical world | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Series C+ | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- disruptive.tech
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 7
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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