Investors / United States / The Perkins Fund
The Perkins Fund
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
The Perkins Fund is a venture fund founded in 2016 by Sonja Hoel Perkins. It invests in high technology companies and typically takes less than 10% of a round, selectively considering board seats.
Invests inConsumer
In its own wordstechnologyhigh techwomen foundersearly stagelate stage
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Or find every investor that fitsThe Perkins Fund lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Consumer (20%), AI & Machine Learning (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Aspect Ventures, Owl Capital and GingerBread Capital.
No funding round on record names The Perkins Fund yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not The Perkins Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 29. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer | 20% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Aspect Ventures | 4 |
| Owl Capital | 4 |
| GingerBread Capital | 3 |
| Halogen Ventures | 3 |
| Lemonade Capital | 3 |
| Short List Capital | 3 |
| Acrew Capital | 2 |
| Advance Venture Partners | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2690%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company310%
- 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 The Perkins Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alethea provides a proactive AI risk management platform that delivers early warnings of narrative threats to protect businesses and organizations | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Argent sells women's clothing | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon38 sells clothing and accessories | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Chronicled provides real-time contract pricing and customer eligibility alignment between trading partners to eliminate chargeback errors | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Ditto develops products for resilient edge device connectivity and edge-native systems | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
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| Expectful provides health and news information from fertility to postpartum | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| GoldieBlox creates construction toys and produces various shows and online content for kids | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| GridGain delivers a solution for ultra-low latency applications, powering extreme speed, scale, durability and reliability critical to modern enterprise use cases and AI agents. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | |||
| Informed provides data-powered income, identity verification, and fraud detection services | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| KETOS monitors water quality in real-time for various parameters, including lead, copper, and mercury, and also offers lab testing services for drinking water, wastewater, and more. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | |||
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| Olivela sells designer products, including fine jewelry and clothing, and donates a portion of its proceeds to charity. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- theperkinsfund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 29
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