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Market Square Ventures
Venture capital · Knoxville, TN, United States · North America
Market Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Knoxville, Tennessee. It invests in early stage startups and lists portfolio companies across software, health, energy, and consumer products.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly stagesoutheast usappalachiatennesseesoftwarehealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsMarket Square Ventures lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (15%), AI & Machine Learning (15%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Launch Tennessee, Arch Grants and Atland Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Market Square 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 Market Square Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 2th | 15% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Launch Tennessee | 2 |
| Arch Grants | 1 |
| Atland Ventures | 1 |
| Aurelia Ventures | 1 |
| Boston Seed Capital | 1 |
| Cofounders Capital | 1 |
| DCVC | 1 |
| Elevate Ventures | 1 |
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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Launch Tennessee
Compare Market Square 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 Market Square Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Market Square Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Market Square 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adele Health creates tools to help people check and understand their blood sugar levels. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AGYL AI provides an operating layer that makes data AI-ready by resolving discrepancies and providing clean, governed records to AI systems | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a guest intelligence platform for live events | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Authentrics.AI provides weight-level controls for high-stakes neural networks, allowing for optimization and intervention in model behavior. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Blackwing Space designs, builds, and tests commercial nanosatellite platforms and core components in the United States. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Blank Beauty produces and sells nail polish and related products | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Daily Crunch produces and sells sprouted almond and other nut snacks | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Vinny provides RV inspection and documentation software for dealerships | Enterprise SoftwareReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Green Llama makes and sells cleaning products for the home | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Clockout enables consumers to access earned wages before payday through their banking app | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Laborup uses AI to help industrial companies build more productive workforces, finding and orchestrating critical talent across the U.S. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Offload connects permit digitization, route planning, resource management, and dispatch execution for freight planning | Mobility & LogisticsEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI platform that powers enterprise search, AI agents, and workflow automation | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| MenuData.ai provides AI solutions and insights to the food and beverage industry | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Oply is a home management and savings app that helps users take care of their home and save time and money | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Rebel Audio provides a platform to edit, clip, dub and publish podcasts | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company designs and builds deployable energy systems, such as the MN-350, to deliver continuous power for military and other applications. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Shappi connects people from Latin America with verified travelers for the delivery of international shipments | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps shows find advertisers and fill ad space. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| StratusGrid offers a multi-agent platform that automates and optimizes cloud infrastructure management across AWS and Azure | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- marketsquareventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Jun 2026
- 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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