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Safar Partners
Venture capital · Cambridge, MA, United States · North America
Safar Partners is a technology venture fund founded in 2018 that invests in companies developed at leading universities, primarily MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester. It reports over $1B under management and 75+ portfolio companies, and has committed to incorporating ESG factors into its investment process.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscleantechadvanced materialsaiitroboticslife sciences
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Or find every investor that fitsSafar Partners lists 64 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 44% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (25%), Healthcare & Biotech (23%) and AI & Machine Learning (18%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Engine Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab and Taihill Venture.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Safar Partners, 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 Safar Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 10 companies; its own site lists 64. 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 roundSafar Partners does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 44% |
| Series A | 22% |
| Series B | 11% |
| Growth | 22% |
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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 7 | 2 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 64 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 44% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 33th | 25% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 23% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Education | 12% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Engine Ventures | 8 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 5 |
| Taihill Venture | 4 |
| Azolla Ventures | 3 |
| Collaborative Fund | 3 |
| Fine Structure Ventures | 3 |
| Foothill Ventures | 3 |
| Global Brain | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6297%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- 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 Safar 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 Safar Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 May 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 2 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Safar Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Safar Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
64 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 247Solar provides high-temperature, modular solar power with overnight storage for clean industrial process heat and baseload renewable electricity. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| 2Pi Optics develops novel metasurface-enabled flat optics technology | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for managing assets and operations, leveraging human-in-the-loop AI for data collection, analytics, and optimization | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| AcousticaBio helps drug developers formulate new and existing biologic products into ultra-high-concentration subcutaneous injections | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Active Surfaces manufactures and installs ultra-light solar modules | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Agility Robotics designs and deploys humanoid robots for industrial automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Altaeros develops and operates autonomous aerostats for various industries, including government and commercial sectors. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company harnesses the natural power of CRISPR to tackle the virome and develop novel therapies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Axoft develops bioinspired implants that mimic the soft tissues of the brain to provide long-term communication with any brain region at single-neuron resolution. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Chromatic 3D Materials develops and provides advanced elastomer materials and 3D printing solutions | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| CavilinQ builds scalable quantum solutions | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Clerio Vision is a development-stage medical device company tackling huge unmet needs in vision care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cogito uses AI for employee and customer experience insights | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Concerto Bio develops consumer health products using microbe-based ingredients. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| DMAT offers durable and sustainable concrete and mortar solutions for the construction sector | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Droplet Biosciences provides information on cancer detection after surgery by analyzing lymphatic fluid | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Embr develops and sells a smart wristband for personal temperature control | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Encora develops a wrist-worn device to help relieve hand tremors in adults with essential tremor. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- safar.partners
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 64
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