Investors / Dune Ventures
Dune Ventures
Venture capital
Dune Ventures is an investment firm that invests $1-10m into founders it describes as outsiders obsessed with overlooked ideas. It backs idiosyncratic founders who do not fit the traditional Silicon Valley mold.
Invests inGaming
In its own wordsearly-stagefounder-ledcontrarian
Your fit with Dune Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsDune Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Gaming (38%), AI & Machine Learning (13%) and Enterprise Software (13%). It invests most often alongside Makers Fund, 359 Capital and Abstract.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Dune Ventures, 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 roundDune Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Makers Fund | 3 |
| 359 Capital | 1 |
| Abstract | 1 |
| Activant Capital | 1 |
| Alliance VC | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Archer Venture Capital | 1 |
| Backed | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Gaming | 38% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Legal & Compliance | 13% | 2% |
| Food & Agriculture | 13% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 13% | 6% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Dune 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 Dune Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Jan 2023 | Series A |
Round details for Dune Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Dune Ventures' 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 Antifraud Company investigates and exposes corporate fraud and files whistleblower claims to recover taxpayer money. | Legal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| General Intuition builds models that can perceive, predict, and act in virtual and physical environments | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Millions of Monsters develops games, including a chess battle royale game called Chess Arena. | Gaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Swoop delivers food from local restaurants to customers in Nigeria | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Voldex creates games and integrates brand partnerships into games on the Roblox platform. | GamingEnterprise Software | Jan 2023Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- dune.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 5 Nov 2021
- 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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