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Preface Ventures
Venture capital
Preface Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, often as the first check, and also selectively in Series A rounds. It works closely with founders on syndicate building, financial and board reporting, customer introductions and hiring.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfrontier enterpriseenterprise softwareb2bfounder-ledhealthcareinsurance
Your fit with Preface Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsPreface Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (25%), AI & Machine Learning (25%) and Consumer (13%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Atinc, Cathay Innovation and Foster Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Preface 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 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 | 4 | 3 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Atinc | 1 |
| Cathay Innovation | 1 |
| Foster Ventures | 1 |
| Golden Sparrow | 1 |
| Great North Ventures | 1 |
| Hyde Park Venture Partners | 1 |
| IGNIA | 1 |
| Latitud | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 25% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Consumer | 13% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 13% | 3% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Preface Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Preface Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2026 | Round Led | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Preface Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Preface Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company operates a B2B marketplace connecting retailers to original products from large brands for resale. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Clario identifies and eliminates redundant, obsolete, and trivial unstructured data for organizations | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurant groups to manage reservations, orders, and catering. | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Round | Funding round | |
| The company provides a platform for launching and managing loyalty partnerships and programs. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | May 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- prefaceventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 4
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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