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Tugboat Ventures
Venture capital · Ketchum, ID, United States · North America
Tugboat Ventures is an investment firm that supports entrepreneurs building businesses. It has expanded its scope to include Evergreen entrepreneurs building profitable, private businesses meant to endure for generations, while continuing to support its existing portfolio of venture-backed companies.
Invests inE-commerce & Marketplaces
In its own wordsevergreenentrepreneurshipprivate businesses
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Or find every investor that fitsTugboat Ventures lists 22 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (17%), Education (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, Core VC and AngelPad.
No funding round on record names Tugboat Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Tugboat Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 22. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 17% | 6% |
| Education | 14% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Consumer | 10% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Core VC | 2 |
| AngelPad | 1 |
| Aspenwood Ventures | 1 |
| Asset Management Company | 1 |
| Blumberg Capital | 1 |
| Bullpen Capital | 1 |
| Canapi Ventures | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 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 | 7th | 17% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1986%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company314%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Bessemer Venture Partners
Compare Tugboat Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
22 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google develops and provides various products and technologies, including search, AI models, and hardware devices. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Applied Silver is the innovator of SilvaClean technology, a patented, EPA-registered water-based ionic silver treatment applied in the final rinse of the laundry process to impart residual antimicrobial activity to a wide range of fabrics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aria provides a cloud billing platform that simplifies commercial complexity into adaptive and automated billing experiences | Industrial & ManufacturingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
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| Blue Nile sells diamond jewelry and engagement rings | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
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| Cranium provides a platform for discovering, observing, governing, securing, and documenting AI models, agents, and vendors used within an enterprise. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | |||
| The company provides consulting services for K–12 education. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | |||
| Hapara provides classroom management software for schools | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company provides a platform for managing gift cards | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kenna's flagship product, Kenna.VM, is now Cisco Vulnerability Management. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| NewSchools is a venture philanthropy that builds a better education system by connecting people, resources, and ideas. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Peloton creates exercise equipment and personalized workout plans | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| RichRelevance provides personalization technology and solutions for various industries, including retail and financial services. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SavvyMoney provides a credit score and financial wellness platform for financial institutions | FintechFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tugboatventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 22
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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