Investors / Oval Ventures
Oval Ventures
Venture capital
Oval Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan and Australia. It focuses on pre-seed stage startups in Human Augmentation, reaching out to entrepreneur candidates and backing them financially on their proof of concept.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordshuman augmentationpre-seedventure building
Your fit with Oval Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsOval Ventures lists 1 checked portfolio company on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its largest theme is AI & Machine Learning (100%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Oval 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 roundThe rounds that name Oval Ventures do not give a stage.
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 | 0 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 100% | 18% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| British Business Bank | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1100%
- 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.
Compare Oval 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 Oval Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2025 | Round |
Round details for Oval Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Oval Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
1 company checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holdson creates electrochemical polishing technology that transforms rough metal parts into smooth, uniform components in rapid turnarounds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Round | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- oval.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 1
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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