Investors / United States / Friale
Friale
Venture capital · Nashville, TN, United States · North America
Friale is an early-stage generalist venture fund that partners with founders across all verticals. It describes itself as hands-on and early, and says it does not require a polished pitch deck or business plan.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsaihealthcaregeneralistearly-stage
Your fit with Friale
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Or find every investor that fitsFriale lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (33%), Education (33%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (33%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside ACTAI Ventures, FOG Ventures and Flybridge.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Friale, 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 | 50% |
| Seed | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| ACTAI Ventures | 1 |
| FOG Ventures | 1 |
| Flybridge | 1 |
| Gigascale Capital | 1 |
| MaC Venture Capital | 1 |
| Pioneer Fund | 1 |
| Root and Shoot Ventures | 1 |
| Script Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 33% | 15% |
| Education | 33% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Friale 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 Friale| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led |
Round details for Friale
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Friale's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaze builds and automates healthcare apps with a visual drag-and-drop builder and provides HIPAA-compliant services | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Nyquis provides real-time intelligence for managing, protecting, and expanding the nation's electrical grid. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- friale.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Aug 2026
- Companies checked
- 2
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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