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True Ventures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that leads pre-seed and seed rounds, usually as the first institutional investor. It backs founders across frontier tech, hardware, consumer, enterprise, and biology, and supports them through a network of more than a thousand founders.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfrontier techhardwareconsumerenterprisebiologyai
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Or find every investor that fitsTrue Ventures lists 165 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 38 funding rounds, 12 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 57% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (27%), Healthcare & Biotech (14%) and Enterprise Software (12%). 87% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Betaworks and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name True 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 True Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 38 companies; its own site lists 165. 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 | 57% |
| Series A | 22% |
| Series B | 11% |
| Growth | 11% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 1 | 0 |
| '18 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 2 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 14 | 5 |
| '26 | 20 | 7 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 164 companies |
| Recent activity | 99th | 21 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 57% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 87th | 16% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 43th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 97th | 12 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 27% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 16 |
| Betaworks | 7 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| Collaborative Fund | 4 |
| Eight Capital | 4 |
| Scribble Ventures | 4 |
| Techstars | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers165100%
- 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 True 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 True Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for True Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in True Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
165 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Airship provides a customer experience platform that helps businesses manage customer journeys and interactions across multiple channels. | Media & EntertainmentFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Airweave lets AI agents retrieve relevant context from apps and databases | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| AlertD provides AI agents for AWS security, cost, and performance management | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| AlpineAI builds AI for institutions that have high responsibility for data | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Ampleforth is a company that offers a decentralized unit of account and a collateral asset used in the SPOT protocol | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Art Blocks creates and sells unique generative digital art pieces made by algorithms written by artists | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Flux analyzes commits, pull requests, and repository activity to give engineering leaders a clear view of actual work, team momentum, and emerging risk | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ati Robotics combines factory-hardened robots, real-time shop-floor data, and AI agents to coordinate material movement in factories. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Atticus helps people claim aid from government and insurance for disability, workers' comp, and VA benefit cases | Legal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Audos builds, runs, and grows businesses based on ideas provided by users, using AI and other resources. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Automattic develops and provides various web services and software, including website hosting, blogging platforms, and e-commerce tools. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Avidbots manufactures and sells autonomous floor cleaning robots for commercial use | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Baffle provides data protection services including encryption, tokenization, and de-identification for various industries and use cases. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Basecamp Research designs and develops therapeutic models and medicines using artificial intelligence | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Biconomy provides a universal execution layer for web3 solutions, including swaps, trading, and automation for DeFi and autonomous AI agents. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and sells virtual reality headsets. | ConsumerGaming | Feb 2017Seed | Page + round | |
| Bolo AI provides a context layer that makes agentic AI work for heavy industry, purpose-built for industrial data and deployed securely within existing infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Bluesky is a social media company that provides an open network for users to connect and share content | Media & EntertainmentHealthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Series B | Page + round | |
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- trueventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Feb 2017
- Companies checked
- 165
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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