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Duration

Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America

durationventures.com

Duration provides full-commitment capital to founders using AI to transform enterprises and industries. It invests from company formation and is based in San Francisco, California.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech

In its own wordsaienterpriseformation

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1portfolio companies
1funding rounds on record1 led
1rounds, last 12 months
$5M to $20Mtypical round it comes in at
Series Amost frequent entry

Duration lists 1 checked portfolio company on its own site and is named in 1 funding round, 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 AI & Machine Learning (50%) and Fintech (50%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Alumni Ventures, Draper Associates and GTMfund.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Duration, 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 round

Duration does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
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Pre-seed0%
Seed0%
Series A100%
Series B0%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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AI & Machine Learning50%18%
Fintech50%12%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
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Alumni Ventures1
Draper Associates1
GTMfund1
Lightspeed Venture Partners1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers00%
  • No longer answers00%
  • Points to another company1100%
  • 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 together
5 shared companies5 shared companies2 shared companiesAlumni Ventures: 1 shared companiesAlumni Ventures1Draper Associates: 1 shared companiesDraper Associates1GTMfund: 1 shared companiesGTMfund1Lightspeed Venture Partners: 1 shared companiesLightspeed Venture Pa…1
Shared portfolio companies with DurationFirms that also back companies together

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portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

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Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Duration
DateCompanyStage
6 Oct 2026avara.aiavara.aiSeries A Led

Round details for Duration

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Duration's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

1 company checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
avara.aiavara.ai · United KingdomEvara AI provides a platform that uses automated Bayesian inference to guide decision-making based on unique insights and associated risks
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Oct 2026Series AFunding round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
The homepage of Duration, as last read
durationventures.com as VCinfo last read it
Site
durationventures.com
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
5 Nov 2026
Rounds since
6 Oct 2026
Companies checked
1

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