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New Orleans Startup Fund
Micro VC · New Orleans, LA, United States · North America
The New Orleans Startup Fund is a non-profit 501(c)(3) evergreen seed fund that provides seed capital and business assistance to early-stage firms. It was established by Greater New Orleans business and financial leaders to help early-stage, innovative businesses grow into venture-ready companies.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software
In its own wordsseedearly-stageeconomic developmentjobslouisianaevergreen fund
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Or find every investor that fitsNew Orleans Startup Fund lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (20%), Enterprise Software (20%) and Food & Agriculture (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside New Orleans BioFund, Callais Capital and IndieBio.
No funding round on record names New Orleans Startup Fund yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not New Orleans Startup Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 20% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 20% | 8% |
| Food & Agriculture | 14% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| New Orleans BioFund | 3 |
| Callais Capital | 2 |
| IndieBio | 2 |
| Innovation Catalyst | 2 |
| SOSV | 2 |
| 7BC Venture Capital | 1 |
| Acronym VC | 1 |
| BIP Ventures | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 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 | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2693%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company27%
- 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 New Orleans BioFund
Compare New Orleans Startup Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides technology to help artists verify and reward their actual fans, blocking out bots and fake fans. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Bioaesthetics develops and provides a biologically-derived nipple and areola graft for breast reconstruction after mastectomies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bioceptive develops innovative medical devices for women's health, including devices for GYN procedures and IUD insertions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CapWay created a more inclusive financial system through its services. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| CyberReef provides a cloud-based mobile firewall service that secures and monitors mobile data connections over cellular and Wi-Fi networks for businesses. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company sells protein powder and drinks made from grass-fed protein | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| El Guapo produces and sells craft cocktail bitters and bar kits | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Brewsy makes and sells products for making wine, cider, or mead at home | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Gilded provides crypto accounting and payment products for businesses | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
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| Ingest Ai provides a data management and analytics platform for restaurants and food businesses. | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| Levelset helps construction businesses manage lien rights and get paid fairly | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Musos is a music licensing library that represents local artists and helps filmmakers find music for their projects. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| LifeCity helps organizations and governments define, measure, and communicate their impact with place-based, science-backed strategies rooted in the community. | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Quarrio is a company that provides a deterministic semantic AI platform for enterprise structured data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- neworleansstartupfund.org
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 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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