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Duke Capital Partners
Venture capital · Durham, NC, United States · North America
Duke Capital Partners is a university-affiliated investment organization that provides funding, mentorship and support to entrepreneurs with a Duke connection. It also runs a two-year associate program that trains Duke graduate students in venture capital sourcing, screening and diligence.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsuniversityduke networkearly stageventure capital educationmentorship
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Or find every investor that fitsDuke Capital Partners lists 69 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Healthcare & Biotech (23%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, General Catalyst and Witz Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Duke Capital Partners, 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 Duke Capital Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 69. 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 roundDuke Capital Partners 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 69 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 57th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 23% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 13 |
| General Catalyst | 5 |
| Witz Ventures | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| Astro Capital | 4 |
| Koru Capital | 4 |
| Multimodal Ventures | 4 |
| NC Tweener Fund | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers69100%
- 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 Duke Capital Partners 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 Duke Capital Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 Feb 2026 | Round | |
| 11 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Duke Capital Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Duke Capital Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
69 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and sells a hand-operated rapid infuser for delivering blood or fluids to critically ill patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Acre Homes offers an alternative to traditional mortgages and renting, allowing customers to share in the appreciation of a home without transaction costs or maintenance surprises. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Adyn provides at-home birth control tests and personalized prescriptions based on genetic background and hormone levels | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AiFi provides a spatial intelligence platform for retail, venues, and travel industries | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Aktoria Robotics provides software and operators for robots and collects data from them. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alkaline works with law firms to customize AI around their judgment, precedents, and processes | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Apollo Atomics develops nuclear power systems. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Baebies develops and manufactures diagnostic testing platforms and tests for healthcare professionals and laboratory professionals. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cosmic Robotics develops robotic equipment for construction, particularly for solar and data centers. | Robotics & HardwareReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Cursor provides an AI coding agent for building ambitious software | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Dannce AI uses AI to analyze video recordings of patients' movements to extract objective motor data for clinical review | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Deep Blue Medical develops and launches next generation surgical devices for optimal tissue tension, reinforcement, and defect closure | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dover Microsystems develops CoreGuard technology to prevent the exploitation of software flaws in AI/ML and other software systems | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Eloquent AI executes regulated workflows end to end in existing financial systems with automation and audit trails | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Embrace provides user-focused observability for mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| EternaTear is developing a product for dry eye treatment that remains on the eye for an extended period of time, reducing the number of applications per day and giving patients lasting relief. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Extellis provides reliable satellite imagery at an industrial scale | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Fluidstack builds and deploys compute infrastructure, including data centers and solar power, to support artificial intelligence and other technologies. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Hinge Health provides virtual and in-person physical therapy and orthopedic care through an app and other services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Howso transforms how enterprises interact with data using its advanced engine that operates directly on source systems to deliver auditable and deterministic outputs for AI, machine learning, and business intelligence workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- duke.edu
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 69
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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