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Surface Ventures
Venture capital
Surface Ventures is a $50 million pre-seed and seed fund that invests primarily in B2B software at pre-money valuations below $17 million. It writes first checks with a median of $1,200,000, investing between $500,000 and $3,000,000 into financings.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechCybersecurity
In its own wordsb2b softwareinfrastructuregenerative aivertical softwarefintechdigital health
Your fit with Surface Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsSurface Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (40%), Healthcare & Biotech (40%) and Cybersecurity (20%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Character, Creative Destruction Lab and Debiopharm Innovation Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Surface Ventures, 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 3 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Character | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Debiopharm Innovation Fund | 1 |
| Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | 1 |
| FYRFLY Venture Partners | 1 |
| Gaingels | 1 |
| IA Seed Ventures | 1 |
| Innovation Works | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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 | 40% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 40% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 20% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Surface Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Surface Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Feb 2026 | Round Led | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Surface Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Surface Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BotGauge tests and evaluates AI agents using adaptive red-teaming and real-world scenarios to discover and improve their behavior. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Feb 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Concordare turns clinical trial study design PDFs into a digital format and generates the full study ecosystem, including EDC builds and CTMS configurations. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Octozi helps sponsors automate clinical data workflows using artificial intelligence. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Poetiq builds intelligent systems that improve themselves directly to create reliable reasoning systems for solving real-world problems. | AI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- surface.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 4
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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