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Protagonist
Venture capital · FL, United States · North America
Protagonist is an investment firm that invests in and incubates businesses. It describes itself as founded by founders and works alongside the companies it backs.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
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Or find every investor that fitsProtagonist lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (24%), Fintech (20%) and Cybersecurity (12%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Astro Capital and Integra Groupe.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Protagonist, 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 Protagonist's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 15. 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 roundProtagonist does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 43% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 14% |
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 | 5 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 39th | 15 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 31th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Fintech | 20% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 8% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
| Developer Tools | 4% | 0% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 3 |
| Astro Capital | 3 |
| Integra Groupe | 3 |
| Abstract | 2 |
| Corner | 2 |
| Deep33 | 2 |
| Dragon Global | 2 |
| Manhattan Venture Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers15100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Protagonist 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 Protagonist| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Series A | |
| 3 Jun 2025 | Series C+ Led | |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Protagonist
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Protagonist's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arago builds a photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jul 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Atoms invests in and develops companies in various industries, including food and robotics. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Camp Network is a Layer-1 blockchain built to modernize intellectual property infrastructure and power the next generation of AI Agents on verifiable IP | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Apr 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Eluve designs and provides medical artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare providers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Epirus develops and provides products to defend against autonomous drone attacks | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Exowatt develops and deploys modular, dispatchable energy systems that capture and store solar energy for on-demand electricity generation | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Fab2 designs and prints chips and builds semiconductor fabs, making the necessary hardware and software themselves. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Levl provides stablecoin payments infrastructure and related services | Fintech | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Momentum Finance provides financial management services to businesses, including bookkeeping, accounting, and strategic finance advice | FintechFintech | Jun 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Roam provides a virtual office platform with various features such as virtual meeting rooms, enterprise messaging, and AI-powered tools. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Temple Digital Group provides financial market infrastructure and services for institutions on the Canton Network | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Tenstorrent produces and sells computer hardware and software for artificial intelligence workloads | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Vivrelle offers a membership-based service providing access to luxury accessories. | Consumer | Jun 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| The company develops and provides AI models and APIs for various applications, including text, code, voice, images, and video. | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- protagonist.co
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 15
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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