Investors / United States / Good Friends
Good Friends
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Good Friends is an investor that describes itself as founders helping founders. It invites founders to submit their decks and says it reads every deal that comes through.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfounder-led
Your fit with Good Friends
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Or find every investor that fitsGood Friends lists 98 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (16%), Fintech (16%) and AI & Machine Learning (15%). 96% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lerer Hippeau, Dorm Room Fund and Lux Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Good Friends, 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 Good Friends' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 98. 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 | 50% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 95th | 98 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 57th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 5th | 16% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| Fintech | 16% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 12% | 6% |
| Food & Agriculture | 9% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lerer Hippeau | 7 |
| Dorm Room Fund | 6 |
| Lux Capital | 5 |
| Divergent Capital | 4 |
| General Catalyst | 4 |
| Imaginary Ventures | 4 |
| K5 Global | 4 |
| Techstars | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9698%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company22%
- 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 Good Friends 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 Good Friends| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Round | |
| 8 Aug 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Good Friends
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Good Friends' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
98 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a full salon manicure experience using beauty technology for precision and cleanliness. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Fintech | Portfolio page | |||
| Aerflo makes a portable device that turns still water into sparkling water | ConsumerFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Agua Magica produces and sells mezcal | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Air provides digital asset management and creative workflow solutions for various industries | Media & EntertainmentSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Alchemy provides blockchain infrastructure for developers | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Arch provides data management and reporting services for private markets investments | FintechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Archive partners with brands to build and scale innovative, profitable resale businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Arrived allows users to buy, sell, and own shares of real estate. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Basis Theory routes, tokenizes, and optimizes payments to drive key metrics for teams. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells health supplements for women at different stages of life. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Black Crow Ai generates unique storefronts for ecommerce using predictive AI | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Blank Street sells coffee and matcha drinks | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Bloomscape delivers home-ready plants and provides related care and accessories | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bodhium Labs builds closed-loop AI systems for marketing and growth teams | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells snacks that support brain health | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Builder.io provides a collaborative platform for building software with AI agents | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Chord provides an analytics harness that manages and improves context, applies permissions, and validates queries to help business users get trusted answers from their data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Climatic designs and sells a daily lung health system to cleanse and clear the airways for easier breathing. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Crosby provides AI-powered law firm services for commercial contracts | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- goodfriends.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 98
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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