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SUM Ventures
Venture capital
SUM Ventures is a venture capital firm that runs a monthly pitch meeting bringing founders, angels and limited partners together. It enters early with smaller checks and concentrates capital over time into its top-performing portfolio companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsgeneralistseedaiclimatefintechhealthcare
Your fit with SUM Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsSUM Ventures lists 44 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Healthcare & Biotech (16%) and Fintech (14%). 79% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Anorak Ventures, Antler and Litquidity Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name SUM Ventures, 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 SUM Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 44. 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 | 60% |
| Series A | 40% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 81th | 45 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 8th | 18% 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 | 18% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Anorak Ventures | 2 |
| Antler | 2 |
| Litquidity Ventures | 2 |
| New Founding | 2 |
| NuFund Venture Group | 2 |
| Short List Capital | 2 |
| StartX | 2 |
| The Artemis Fund | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4398%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 SUM Ventures 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 SUM Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 19 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Seed |
Round details for SUM Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in SUM Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
44 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acorns provides an automated saving and investing app for individuals and families | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides a digital assistance system for incontinence and movement monitoring in care homes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Automotus provides automated curb management solutions for cities, airports, and fleets | Mobility & LogisticsAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces plant-based organic electrolyte drinks for hydration. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Brius Technologies Inc produces and markets hidden braces for teeth straightening | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Circularity Fuels produces sustainable aviation fuel from waste gas | EducationEducation | Nov 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| DRESSX develops AI solutions that help fashion brands improve the shopping experience. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| En Vérité provides a platform for founders and investors to manage financial models, data rooms, and investment decisions | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fantasy Life provides expert fantasy football advice and rankings | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Geckomaterials develops and manufactures a bio-inspired dry adhesive product | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Oze provides a business app for SMEs and lending software for banks, offering tools for bookkeeping, invoices, selling online, and managing inventory, as well as loan services | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Grapefruit Health provides a tech-enabled platform that mobilizes local clinical students to close gaps in healthcare by offloading lower-acuity tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on complex needs. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| The company extracts aqueous lithium and manufactures lithium-ion battery cathode materials on-site using two complementary technologies | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Hellbender builds mission-critical hardware and software for AI-driven perception systems in autonomy, robotics, and industrial applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company develops and applies artificial intelligence to analyze the physical world through spectral fingerprints encoded in light. | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Instant Action provides mobile marketing technology that transforms basic messaging into highly engaging, multi-channel action | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Irrigreen manufactures and sells smart in-ground sprinkler systems that water lawns precisely where needed, reducing water usage. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ClearClub delivers custom, high quality night guards to your door. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| LiveEasy is a home services platform that enables businesses to stay engaged with consumers throughout the lifetime of their rental and homeownership journeys. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates augmented reality experiences for various purposes, including storytelling and games. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sum.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 44
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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