Investors / focal
focal
Venture capital
focal is a venture firm that leads first financing rounds for technical founders, typically investing at pre-seed and often before a company is incorporated. It backs AI-native software, platform and infrastructure builders and works closely with portfolio companies on go-to-market, hiring and fundraising.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsaipre-seedsoftwareinfrastructureb2btechnical founders
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Or find every investor that fitsfocal lists 41 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Healthcare & Biotech (18%) and Fintech (12%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Social Starts, Y Combinator and Bee Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name focal, 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 focal's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 41. 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 | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 78th | 41 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 63th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Social Starts | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Bee Partners | 2 |
| Joyance Partners | 2 |
| K5 Global | 2 |
| 43 | 1 |
| Abstract | 1 |
| Afore Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3995%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company25%
- 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 focal 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 focal| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Feb 2025 | Seed |
Round details for focal
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in focal's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
41 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altira Health helps health systems follow patients via voice and SMS, escalating to clinicians only when needed. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Beam Health provides an AI platform for medical practice management, connecting various aspects of medical practice such as intake, documentation, and billing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Brackett provides various services including invoice audit, workforce onboarding, and contract compliance to its customers | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bridgefy is a free messaging app that works without the Internet. | ConsumerEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Briq provides construction management software that utilizes AI to automate tasks and workflows | ConsumerReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building AI that learns to steer cells from disease to health | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Coworker develops and provides enterprise AI agents for various tasks | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Doxx provides a private network for secure communication and data transfer between devices | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Drafter turns CAD models into production drawing packages, dimensioned and toleranced, with reduced drafting time. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Eclipse provides real-time muscular insight for athletes, coaches, and clinicians to prevent injuries and improve performance. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company partners with corporations and AI labs to provide hiring, work, and AI training services | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Finch brings claim information to light from emails and other data sources | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Flamingo provides AI-native IT automation for managed service providers and IT teams | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Geminus links AI to the physical world, integrating data, physics, and computation into a unified system that continuously understands and optimizes complex operations in real time | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Lightswitch builds AI systems that help fast-growing consumer packaged goods brands run their day-to-day operations | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Stark Labs provides a suite of integrated accessibility tools for digital accessibility compliance | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Gridium provides an energy-management-as-a-service platform for real estate | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Gleam automates multi-visit data entry and quality control for clinical research sites | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- focal.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 12 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 41
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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