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Fitz Gate Ventures
Venture capital · Houston, TX, United States · North America
Fitz Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that manages three funds with $70M in assets under management, with Rice University's Office of Innovation as an anchor investor. It leads, co-invests or invests alone, writing initial checks of $500k-$1mm and reserving for follow-on rounds, and draws on its 'Friends of Fitz' advisor community for deal flow, diligence and portfolio support.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techhard techtech transfergeneralistartificial intelligencequantum computing
Your fit with Fitz Gate Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsFitz Gate Ventures lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Healthcare & Biotech (17%) and Fintech (15%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 645 Ventures, Afore Capital and Collaborative Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Fitz Gate Ventures, 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 Fitz Gate Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 28. 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 | 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 12th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Fintech | 15% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 8% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 645 Ventures | 2 |
| Afore Capital | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Correlation Ventures | 2 |
| Engine Ventures | 2 |
| Entrada Ventures | 2 |
| Greycroft | 2 |
| Imagination Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2796%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 Fitz Gate 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 Fitz Gate Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Feb 2018 | Series A |
Round details for Fitz Gate Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Fitz Gate Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides an enterprise blockchain platform for tokenizing and managing real world assets. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cartful Solutions provides a platform for merchandisers to teach AI and power AI shopping on their site and other channels. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells products to support liver health and alleviate after-effects of alcohol consumption | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clasp AI provides benefits administration services | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| DetraPel, Inc is a clean-tech advanced materials company that specializes in synthesizing and manufacturing PFAS-free protective coatings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company offers various cleaning and chore services through its app | Real Estate & ConstructionConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Wit is the leading gamification platform helping over 200 of the world’s iconic brands grow revenue through bespoke digital experiences. | GamingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Overtime operates a shop and website related to sports | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Kapta Space develops and uses advanced radar sensing technology to deliver geospatial intelligence and data products | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| March.biosciences is a clinical-stage company developing CAR-T cell strategies to address hematological cancers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NewsGuard provides data, analysis and journalism that helps enterprises and consumers identify reliable information online | Media & EntertainmentCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| NomadGo provides on-device inventory intelligence for various industries, including restaurants, retail, and healthcare | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Optimal Dynamics provides a transportation decision system to automatically boost utilization, productivity, and profitability across an organization. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Oso Semiconductor develops power-efficient, high-performance chipsets for wireless applications with electrically steered antennas | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Overtime operates a shop and website related to sports | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Feb 2018Series A | Funding round | |
| The company develops a blood purification therapy to treat sepsis by removing bacteria from the bloodstream. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pledge provides a platform for fundraising and donation, offering various tools and services for individuals, nonprofits, and companies to collect donations and manage fundraising campaigns. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Quantum Circuits develops and commercializes quantum computing technology with a focus on error detection and control | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Realworld helps users manage their life administration tasks through a dashboard and various tools and kits | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- fitzgate.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Feb 2018
- Companies checked
- 28
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