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Heinz Ventures
Venture capital · Memphis, TN, United States · North America
Heinz Ventures is an operator-led investment firm founded by Eric S. Heinz in 2015 that invests in early-stage medical technology companies. Alongside investing, its founder selectively provides independent expert witness, board director, and business development advisory services in medical devices.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsmedtechmedical devicesregulated medical technologyvascular accessintracranial pressure monitoringorthopedics
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Or find every investor that fitsHeinz Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Illinois Ventures, Device of Tomorrow Capital and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Heinz Ventures, 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 100th | 100% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Illinois Ventures | 3 |
| Device of Tomorrow Capital | 1 |
| Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation | 1 |
| mHUB | 1 |
| rpv | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- 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 | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Illinois Ventures
Compare Heinz 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 Heinz Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Heinz Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Heinz Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auvi Labs designs wearable ultrasound to detect vascular access failure | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CranioSense is developing a portable system to help clinicians assess intracranial pressure non-invasively | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CytexOrtho is developing orthopedic joint preservation technology, including cartilage resurfacing and repair implants | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Madison Scientific develops solutions for hydrocephalus patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Madison Scientific develops solutions for hydrocephalus patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- heinzventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
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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