Investors / Orange Collective
Orange Collective
Venture capital
Orange Collective is a fund that backs Y Combinator alumni founders building AI companies. It invests across the AI stack, from physical infrastructure and developer tools to computer use, evals, agentic coding, vertical agents, and full-stack AI companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
In its own wordsaiai infrastructuredeveloper toolsagentsvertical aiyc alumni
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Or find every investor that fitsOrange Collective lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (38%), Enterprise Software (18%) and Fintech (14%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Transpose Platform and Eight Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Orange Collective, 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 Orange Collective's whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 29. 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 roundOrange Collective does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 13% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 13% |
| 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 | 7 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 88% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 84th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 38% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 18% | 8% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Legal & Compliance | 7% | 2% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 29 |
| Transpose Platform | 11 |
| Eight Capital | 8 |
| Spot VC | 6 |
| Ritual Capital | 5 |
| Zero Index | 5 |
| Jones Trauber Capital | 4 |
| General Catalyst | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers29100%
- 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 togetherCompare Orange Collective 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 Orange Collective| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 26 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Feb 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Orange Collective
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Orange Collective's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airweave lets AI agents retrieve relevant context from apps and databases | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Akkari runs the operational work from the first sales call through success and expansion using an AI execution system for customer operations | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Allia Health provides an operating system for behavioral health practices, offering a platform for intake, care, documentation, prescribing, and billing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Apollo Atomics develops nuclear power systems. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides digital notary services and helps with business founding, accounting, and other bureaucratic tasks in Germany. | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Bolna AI provides voice AI agents that power thousands of inbound and outbound calls every minute with human-like, multilingual intelligence | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides cloud browser infrastructure and agents for automated browsing tasks. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Context.dev provides a web scraping API for AI agents to scrape, search, monitor, and collect data from the web. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cua provides shared computer services for teams and agents. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an API for identity and fraud services, including authentication, verification, and monitoring. | FintechCybersecurity | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Exosat builds low orbit satellites to support sovereign operators in direct-to-consumer and broadband services. | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financial data and a stock market API for AI agents | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides legal services to growing companies | Legal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Halluminate is a data research lab building benchmarks and RL environments to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Henry automates underwriting, pitch decks, and comps research for commercial real estate teams. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Leaping AI provides AI voice and text agents for call centers to handle calls and improve productivity | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Luel trains AI systems to listen, reason, and act using a continuous data engine. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Magnetic provides an AI-powered tax return service that drafts and reviews tax returns for accounting firms. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Mastra develops and provides a TypeScript AI framework for building agents and apps | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Overshoot optimizes inference stacks for AI teams by building custom inference deployments for their workload and hardware | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- orangecollective.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 29
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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