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Imagination Capital
Venture capital · New York City, NY, United States · North America
Imagination Capital is an early stage venture investor founded in 2017 and based in New York City. It partners with entrepreneurs, providing capital, networks and operating and investment experience, and targets initial investments of $100-150k.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsesportsbig datadigital mediaearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsImagination Capital lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (27%), Media & Entertainment (10%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Multimodal Ventures and Transpose Platform.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Imagination Capital, 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 Imagination Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 30. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 42th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 27% | 18% |
| Media & Entertainment | 10% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 10% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 19 |
| Multimodal Ventures | 4 |
| Transpose Platform | 4 |
| TRAC | 3 |
| Afore Capital | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| CRV | 2 |
| Eight Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers30100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Imagination Capital 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 Imagination Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 2018 | Series A |
Round details for Imagination Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Imagination Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antenna provides market data and insights for the subscription economy, helping businesses understand subscriber behavior and make data-driven decisions. | Media & EntertainmentSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Capitol AI develops a platform that codifies an institution's proprietary data, expertise, and processes into governed workflows to produce finished work products | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cekura Ai provides automated quality assurance for voice AI and chat AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an astrology app that generates hyper-personalized and real-time horoscopes using NASA data and natural-language engine. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Customily provides software for product personalization and customization | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Datoric provides data for the next generation of physical AI | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| General Instinct makes large-scale robot post-training and deployment reliable | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Godela creates AI that understands and predicts the behavior of physical systems, allowing for faster solution of engineering problems. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Headspace offers a mental health app for meditation, sleep, and online therapy. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Hyperspell connects a company's tools and data sources, synthesizing them into a single source of truth that can be accessed by any agent. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Overtime operates a shop and website related to sports | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Mbodi develops artificial intelligence for industrial robots to learn and operate like humans | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Mesmer helps engineering organizations identify and fix bottlenecks in their development process | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| MouseCat uses AI to detect and prevent financial crime, such as fraud and scams, for businesses. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Neuromorphic builds frontier robots to automate wet labs | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Osmosis helps companies create task-specific models that beat foundation models at a fraction of the cost. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company works to inspire and power more time outside through its various brands and platforms. | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Overtime operates a shop and website related to sports | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Feb 2018Series A | Funding round | |
| The company is building policies for robots that do real work. | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- imaginationvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Feb 2018
- Companies checked
- 30
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