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Leap Forward Ventures
Venture capital
Leap Forward Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that invests in startups building hardware and software for the physical world. It focuses on areas including energy, industry and manufacturing, and climate impacts.
Invests inEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsenergyindustrymanufacturingclimatehardwaresoftware
Your fit with Leap Forward Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsLeap Forward Ventures lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (23%), Industrial & Manufacturing (21%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (9%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Collaborative Fund and Stepchange.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Leap Forward Ventures, 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 Leap Forward Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 28. 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 26th | 23% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 23% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 21% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 8% | 18% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 8% | 1% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 8% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 7 |
| Collaborative Fund | 4 |
| Stepchange | 4 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 3 |
| Necessary Ventures | 3 |
| British International Investment | 2 |
| Climactic | 2 |
| Cool Climate Collective | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers28100%
- 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 Leap Forward 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 Leap Forward Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Leap Forward Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Leap Forward Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alga Biosciences improves agriculture by using algae to create a feed supplement that reduces methane emissions in cattle. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anode develops a unique product portfolio that delivers power wherever and whenever it is needed | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Arcticar builds and provides electric refrigeration systems for trailers | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Balto Energy offers homeowners a clear and affordable path for home energy upgrades and helps installers make those upgrades accessible to more customers. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Bayou Energy provides customer utility bills, usage, and account data instantly through an API | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bluedot provides a platform for electric vehicle fleet charging and management for autonomous fleets | Mobility & LogisticsE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Cala Systems produces an intelligent heat pump water heater that customizes water heating for each home, each day. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Care Weather designs, builds, and operates satellites to improve weather forecasting | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round | ||
| Circularity Fuels produces sustainable aviation fuel from waste gas | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Copper produces and sells a plug-in induction range with an integrated battery called Charlie. | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| EcoCart provides end-to-end sustainable shopping experiences with features such as green shipping protection and carbon offsetting for e-commerce businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Elastic Energy connects and manages energy equipment such as solar panels, batteries, and HVAC systems for homes and businesses | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company installs and repairs heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Eli automates the financial workflows for America's energy upgrade, including eligibility, verification, compliance, and payments for energy programs and contractors. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Ezra helps companies raise debt and project finance by connecting them with lenders through their platform and deal team. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides wildfire protection systems for homes and businesses. | Real Estate & ConstructionCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Niv-AI analyzes the AI workload fingerprint to dynamically orchestrate compute in real-time | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| PitPro provides automated fleet maintenance solutions for tire service, including fast and reliable tire changes and rotations for auto shops and fleets. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| The company buys electric vehicles from their owners | E-commerce & MarketplacesMobility & Logistics | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- leapforward.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 28
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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