Investors / United States / Ludlow Ventures
Ludlow Ventures
Venture capital · Oak Park, MI, United States · North America
Ludlow Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2010 that backs founders early and builds long-term relationships with them. The firm says it does not chase themes or change its strategy between funds.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly-stagefounder-focusedseedventure capital
Your fit with Ludlow Ventures
Four questions about your startup
See how your round matches what it backs, point by point.
Or find every investor that fitsLudlow Ventures lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Education (7%) and Real Estate & Construction (7%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, 640 Oxford and Anorak Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ludlow 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 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 | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 7% | 3% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Gaming | 7% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| 640 Oxford | 1 |
| Anorak Ventures | 1 |
| Beaten Zone Venture Partners | 1 |
| COLOPL NEXT | 1 |
| Climactic | 1 |
| Coalition Operators | 1 |
| Costanoa Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Ludlow 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 Ludlow Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 29 May 2024 | Seed | |
| 24 Feb 2017 | Seed |
Round details for Ludlow Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ludlow Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis provides software for energy and roofing companies to design, sell, and execute projects | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| The company develops and sells virtual reality headsets. | ConsumerGaming | Feb 2017Seed | Funding round | |
| The company translates plants' electric signals into actionable insights for plant and tree care | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Nidus Tech develops AI-powered manufacturing systems | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Channel3 builds a product graph for AI agents to search, recommend, and purchase products. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Ultra Security provides runtime security for AI agents | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| ZeroMark develops an AI targeting layer for intelligent defense against drone threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | May 2024Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- ludlowventures.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Feb 2017
- Companies checked
- 7
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.
Get Ludlow Ventures' profile as data
Pull Ludlow Ventures' portfolio, co-investors and changes through one API key or MCP, open every portfolio row, compare it with other firms, and get an email when it adds a company or files a fund.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/ludlowventures.com
# also
GET /v1/firms/ludlowventures.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/ludlowventures.com/coinvestors
GET /v1/firms/ludlowventures.com/news