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Level Up Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Level Up Ventures is a mission-driven investment vehicle that invests in high-growth startups led by founders who have experienced barriers to accessing capital. It couples a $300k average pre-seed/seed check with in-house support and access to the resources and services of Hearst and its partners.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsb2b softwaresector agnosticdiversitytransportationsupply chainfintech
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Or find every investor that fitsLevel Up Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Fintech (26%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and Food & Agriculture (9%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, Collab Capital and REFASHIOND Ventures.
No funding round on record names Level Up Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Level Up Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 15. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 26% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 9% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 9% | 2% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 3 |
| Collab Capital | 2 |
| REFASHIOND Ventures | 2 |
| Serac Ventures | 2 |
| AIX Ventures | 1 |
| Abstraction Capital | 1 |
| Array Ventures | 1 |
| Axial | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 39th | 15 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 | 39th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1493%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company17%
- 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 Level Up Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClearCOGS is restaurant forecasting software that reads POS history and other data to provide daily prep sheets, order guides, and labor plans for restaurants. | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides software solutions for healthcare organizations to improve engagement, operations, and communication with residents and staff. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EMTECH provides software as a service to connect Central Banks and Financial Service Providers for various services such as sandboxing, licensing, supervision, compliance and cash management processes. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Greenshoe provides real-time intelligence for public company disclosure | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| GrowthSync helps businesses achieve seamless collaboration across channels and teams through data-driven insights, AI-powered optimization, and automated workflows. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-powered transportation management system for carriers and dispatchers | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| LoanWell provides automated loan origination systems for lenders | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Pryze is an employee app and management dashboard that collects performance data and incentivizes goal completion. | Food & AgricultureHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| SmartWiz provides a tool that automates tax filing data entry for tax offices | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Sortile empowers the textile recycling industry with technology that enables the identification, sorting and traceability of textiles. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Sunthetics develops and provides AI-guided experimentation software for chemical research and development | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Tensor9 adapts software written for one cloud to run anywhere it needs to, including another cloud, on-prem, or in a customer's private environment | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
Fintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- levelupventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 15
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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