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Impellent Ventures
Venture capital · Rochester, NY, United States · North America
Impellent Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that writes checks of up to $1.5M into pre-seed and seed stage companies. It describes an operator-first approach, backing founders across geographies and demographics rather than focusing on specific industries.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRobotics & Hardware
In its own wordsoperator-leddiversitycity-agnostictechnologyearly-stage
Your fit with Impellent Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsImpellent Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Enterprise Software (17%) and Robotics & Hardware (17%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Blue Heron Capital, Catalyst Investors and Coinvest Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Impellent 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 | 60% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 20% |
| 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 | 4 | 2 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Blue Heron Capital | 1 |
| Catalyst Investors | 1 |
| Coinvest Capital | 1 |
| Excell Partners | 1 |
| Launch NY | 1 |
| Plug and Play | 1 |
| Underscore VC | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 17% | 1% |
| Fintech | 17% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Blue Heron Capital
Compare Impellent 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 Impellent Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 22 Jan 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Impellent Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Impellent Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Famous.ai turns ideas into web and mobile apps using synthetic intelligence | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Gander Robotics develops and manufactures autonomous underwater vehicles | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides payment infrastructure for financial institutions, powered by open banking | Fintech | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Ognomy Sleep provides virtual sleep apnea care and treatment services | Healthcare & Biotech | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- impellent.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 4
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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