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Refactor Capital
Venture capital · Burlingame, CA, United States · North America
Refactor Capital is a solo-capitalist venture firm that invests in seed-stage hard tech startups. It manages five funds and writes first checks of $1-2M.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordshard techaerospaceenergybiotechcritical materialsai infrastructure
Your fit with Refactor Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsRefactor Capital lists 49 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (47%), AI & Machine Learning (16%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (11%). 97% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Fifty Years and Metaplanet.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Refactor Capital, 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 Refactor Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 49. 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 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 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 84th | 50 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 60th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 47% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 16% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 2% | 4% |
| Fintech | 2% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 12 |
| Fifty Years | 6 |
| Metaplanet | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| KdT Ventures | 4 |
| Lux Capital | 4 |
| Soma Capital | 4 |
| Breakout Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4796%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- 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 Refactor Capital 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 Refactor Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Refactor Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Refactor Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
49 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops a platform and products for advanced therapeutics, including gene therapies, cell therapies, and biologics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Adventris Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company focusing on cancer immunotherapy | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Akasa builds AI for the hardest work in the revenue cycle, specifically for health systems to get full credit for the care they deliver. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Astranis designs, manufactures, tests, and operates geostationary orbit satellites for commercial and government customers. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds a brain wearable device powered by EEG technology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Berkeley Yeast produces yeast for brewing beer and other beverages. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| BioRender provides scientific figure and illustration software | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Brelle engineers energy systems for the world’s most demanding machines. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Checkerspot creates specialized lipids from fermentation ingredients inspired by nature | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clover Health offers Medicare Advantage Plans and related services to its members. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Curative offers a new kind of employer-sponsored health insurance based on affordability, engagement, and simplicity. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Enzyme develops and provides quality management system software for life sciences companies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Epana Bio treats autoimmune disease by targeting its cellular origin and using genomics and AI to build medicines | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
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| Floodbase provides an AI platform for insuring uncovered flood risk | FintechClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| General Galactic is building spacecraft for logistics around the Earth and across the solar system. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- refactor.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 49
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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