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Flying Fish Ventures
Venture capital · Seattle, WA, United States · North America
Flying Fish Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington. It backs pre-seed and seed stage founders building companies with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core of their strategy, and provides technical talent, go-to-market resources and customer introductions alongside capital.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsartificial intelligencemachine learningreinforcement learninggenerative aifoundational aihard sciences
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Or find every investor that fitsFlying Fish Ventures lists 32 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 88% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Healthcare & Biotech (7%) and Cybersecurity (7%). 65% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Ascend, Creative Destruction Lab and Vela Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Flying Fish 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 Flying Fish Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 32. 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 | 88% |
| Series A | 13% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 2 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 70th | 32 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 88% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 19% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Ascend | 3 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Vela Partners | 3 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Character | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Fusion | 2 |
| Index Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2888%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company413%
- 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 Flying Fish 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 Flying Fish Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 17 Sept 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 28 Jul 2025 | Series A | |
| 15 Feb 2024 | Seed |
Round details for Flying Fish Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Flying Fish Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
32 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accipiter Biosciences designs and develops protein therapies to address complex diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| AgileRL provides a platform to train and deploy specialized agents for specific tasks using reinforcement learning and other techniques. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Aisy investigates every ticket to learn how a company works and provides vulnerability management that learns | Cybersecurity | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Jul 2025Series A | Page + round | |||
| Artificial Agency develops a behavior engine that uses foundation models to create intelligent agents for games | GamingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BluePill builds AI Consumer Panels for instant insights | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Boltive verifies creatives and inventory before autonomous systems act to ensure confident transactions at scale | CybersecurityMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Criteo provides a platform for commerce intelligence and media advertising | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Digs provides AI software for residential home builders to manage and streamline their building processes. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ethos provides online life insurance services, including instant quotes and policy applications without medical exams. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fairly AI provides a service related to the EU AI Act. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform to protect organizations from hiring fraudsters using AI-powered verification and detection tools | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Nectar provides an AI-native operating system for social media management | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Glia provides artificial intelligence and automation solutions for banking and financial institutions | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Sella helps people sell used stuff on various online platforms | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| HiVerge orchestrates thousands of AI research agents to discover new computational approaches to solve high-value challenges | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Ineffable Intelligence is creating a superlearner that discovers knowledge and skills through reinforcement learning algorithms. | AI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides an app for finding, ordering ahead, and earning rewards at independent coffee shops | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- flyingfish.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Feb 2024
- Companies checked
- 32
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