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Principal Venture Partners
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Principal Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2024 that focuses on early stage, AI-native startups. It invests in companies building foundation models, developer tools, middleware, applications, consumer technology, and games.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningRobotics & HardwareMedia & Entertainment
In its own wordsaifoundation modelsdeveloper toolsconsumergameshealthcare
Your fit with Principal Venture Partners
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Or find every investor that fitsPrincipal Venture Partners lists 2 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 AI & Machine Learning (50%), Robotics & Hardware (25%) and Media & Entertainment (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside ADIN, EPIC Ventures and EquityPitcher Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Principal Venture Partners, 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| ADIN | 1 |
| EPIC Ventures | 1 |
| EquityPitcher Ventures | 1 |
| Golden Gate Ventures | 1 |
| Mana Ventures | 1 |
| SCV x SBI Fund | 1 |
| Smedvig Ventures | 1 |
| Startupbootcamp Scale Osaka | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 25% | 1% |
| Media & Entertainment | 25% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Principal Venture Partners 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 Principal Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Principal Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Principal Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides autonomous marketing services for B2B businesses | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Infinity develops model-aware inference software for AI accelerators | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- principalvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 2
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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