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Textbook Ventures
Venture capital · New York City, NY, United States · North America
Textbook Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund based in New York City. It works with founders from the earliest idea stages and is immersed in the startup ecosystems of Columbia, Cornell, NYU, and the city.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordspre-seeduniversity startupsnew york city
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Or find every investor that fitsTextbook Ventures lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (22%), Healthcare & Biotech (11%) and Education (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside AIX Ventures, AperiamVentures and Asymmetric Capital Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Textbook 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 Textbook Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 10. 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 | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 25th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 20th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Human Resources | 6% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AIX Ventures | 1 |
| AperiamVentures | 1 |
| Asymmetric Capital Partners | 1 |
| Cadenza | 1 |
| Capital Factory | 1 |
| Carao Ventures | 1 |
| Carnrite Ventures | 1 |
| Crosscourt Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- 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 togetherCompare Textbook 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 Textbook Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Textbook Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Textbook Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bookend combines payer policy intelligence with workflow automation to drive quality upstream in gastroenterology practices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BranchLab provides a semantic activation platform for healthcare commercialization | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bucephalus provides an AI-first platform for supply and demand planning, working alongside existing systems to automate daily planning decisions | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon Collective offers investment services, including 401(k) and 403(b) fund lineups, cash management, and model portfolios | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Helix Earth develops and sells a retrofit system for commercial buildings to control humidity and improve air quality | Real Estate & ConstructionClimate & Energy | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Jericho Security provides cybersecurity training for employees using AI technology. | CybersecurityEducation | Apr 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Olokun Minerals provides mineral-based products that help divert harmful drainage water away from ocean life and provides sustainably sourced minerals for a number of different industries | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| OneRange operates an upskilling marketplace for modern teams with a wide range of learning resources. | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Rexi reconciles, investigates, and accounts for complex money flows across fragmented systems for finance operations | FintechEnterprise Software | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| SWYM.AI provides an AI-native media decisioning platform for advertisers and agencies to control media outcomes | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- textbook.vc
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 10
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