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Maroon Venture Partners Fund
Venture capital · Amherst, MA, United States · North America
Maroon Venture Partners Fund is a for-profit venture fund that invests in early stage companies linked to UMass Amherst, typically $100,000 to $300,000, often as a venture's initial outside equity funding. Its funds are managed by Maroon Venture Partners, LLC, overseen by a volunteer investment committee, with day-to-day operations run by a UMass Amherst faculty member.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechConsumer
In its own wordsumass amherstuniversity ecosystemearly stagetechnologyinnovationalumni network
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Or find every investor that fitsMaroon Venture Partners Fund lists 12 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (38%), Consumer (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside MassVentures, AIN Ventures and Boston Impact Initiative.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Maroon Venture Partners Fund, 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 Maroon Venture Partners Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 12. 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 30th | 12 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 73th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 38% | 15% |
| Consumer | 19% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1192%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company18%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| MassVentures | 3 |
| AIN Ventures | 1 |
| Boston Impact Initiative | 1 |
| Burnt Island Ventures | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| DCVC | 1 |
| HG Ventures | 1 |
| Imagine H2O | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Maroon Venture Partners Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Maroon Venture Partners Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Maroon Venture Partners Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Maroon Venture Partners Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
12 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company produces and sells nut-free seed bars, seed butters, and other seed-based products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Aclarity destroys PFAS contaminants on-site with its Octa System | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company makes handmade leather shoes in various sizes and widths. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Florrent is engineering the future of reliable electricity by developing supercapacitors for power storage technology. | EducationEducation | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| HomeBinder provides a platform to manage home information and utilities, and offers home inspection services. | Real Estate & ConstructionConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is developing a rapid, phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing platform | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Myrias Optics creates custom optical solutions, from design to manufacturing, for various industries | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ompractice provides online yoga, fitness, and mindfulness classes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Optical Waters produces UV-C side-emitting optical fibers for surface disinfection | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| QSM Diagnostics offers in-clinic and mail-in bacteria testing kits and instruments for veterinarians. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Theromics is developing a next-generation thermal accelerant technology for enhanced ablation procedures and more precise and effective drug delivery. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- maroonventurepartners.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 12
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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