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First Bight Ventures
Venture capital
First Bight Ventures is a venture firm that invests in early-stage biomanufacturing companies using nature's chemistry to replace extracted and petroleum-based inputs. It writes first checks, takes board seats, and works with corporations, governments, universities and foundations to scale biomanufacturing.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsbiomanufacturingsynthetic biologysustainabilityindustrial biotechmaterialsclimate
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Or find every investor that fitsFirst Bight Ventures lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (42%), Healthcare & Biotech (33%) and AI & Machine Learning (17%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside StartX, Y Combinator and BlueYard Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name First Bight 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 100% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| StartX | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| BlueYard Capital | 1 |
| Capital Factory | 1 |
| Capricorn Partners | 1 |
| Creative Ventures | 1 |
| DCVC | 1 |
| Fifty Years | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers788%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company113%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 42% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 33% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare First Bight 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 First Bight Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for First Bight Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in First Bight Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and produces plant-based polyurethanes that replace petroleum-based materials | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| DMC Biotechnologies produces high-purity, traceable and science-backed ingredients through precision fermentation for health and wellness solutions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Industrial Microbes produces biobased materials using renewable, low-carbon feedstocks. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Persephone Biosciences develops and sells probiotics and prebiotics for infants and toddlers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Persephone Biosciences develops and sells probiotics and prebiotics for infants and toddlers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| R2DIO offers SaaS solutions and services to improve data quality for R&D, manufacturing, and data science teams | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Visolis engineers a new industrial standard with biology and chemistry, creating fuels and chemicals that are safer, perform better, and are already in production. | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- firstbight.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Oct 2026
- Companies checked
- 8
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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