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First Trust Capital Partners
Corporate VC · Wheaton, IL, United States · North America
First Trust Capital Partners is an investment firm affiliated with First Trust Portfolios L.P. and First Trust Advisors L.P. It invests balance sheet capital in early and growth stage companies and has made more than 100 private investments over 15 years.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfinancial serviceshealthcare technologyearly stagegrowth stageco-investment
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Or find every investor that fitsFirst Trust Capital Partners lists 91 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (51%), Fintech (13%) and AI & Machine Learning (11%). 90% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside UPMC Enterprises, A1 Health Ventures and Martin Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name First Trust 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 First Trust Capital Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 91. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 25% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 94th | 91 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 65th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 51% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 51% | 15% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 2% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| UPMC Enterprises | 5 |
| A1 Health Ventures | 4 |
| Martin Ventures | 4 |
| 7wire Ventures | 3 |
| Acumen America | 3 |
| CU Healthcare Innovation Fund | 3 |
| Generator Ventures | 3 |
| MemorialCare Innovation Fund | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9099%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with UPMC Enterprises
Compare First Trust 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 First Trust Capital Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 23 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 25 Sept 2024 | Round |
Round details for First Trust Capital Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in First Trust Capital Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
91 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Neuroscience develops and sells wearable devices that use touch therapy to help with stress, sleep, and performance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arrive Health works to make care decisions better for patients and providers, improving affordability, access, and outcomes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Astrata provides healthcare software solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AVIA helps health systems make better decisions and move faster on their most important digital priorities. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bandwidth provides communication APIs and services for voice, messaging, and emergency services. | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| BlueRock builds a platform to build, run, and control AI agents safely | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Brain-CA Technologies has built a new architecture chip that delivers AI using a fraction of the energy | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides a cloud-based, API-first wealth technology infrastructure for financial data, advanced analytics, and mission-critical applications | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| C3Rx delivers pharmacy benefit solutions and administers prescription benefits | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Centauri provides eligibility solutions, care coordination, and data exchange services for healthcare organizations and individuals. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Circuit provides AI solutions for manufacturing and service teams to automate tasks such as quoting and field service support | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CIRE Equity is a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm and owner and operator of real estate assets. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Clinical Architecture provides healthcare data quality and interoperability solutions and services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Community CareLink offers human services software for case management, closed-loop referrals and more, built for CBOs, nonprofits, and public agencies to document services, meet compliance, and clearly demonstrate outcomes, so you can secure and grow funding. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Conversio Health provides comprehensive respiratory management programs for patients with COPD and asthma | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Copient AI provides AI-powered role-play training for various industries, including healthcare and higher education. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Cordata equips first responders, healthcare providers, and community organizations with the solutions they need to connect vulnerable populations to care and support. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Delivery First provides delivery services for local restaurants | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Deon Health is a specialty managed care organization that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ftcapitalpartners.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 25 Sept 2024
- Companies checked
- 91
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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