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Van Wickle Ventures
Venture capital · Providence, RI, United States · North America
Van Wickle Ventures is a student-run, evergreen venture fund at Brown University founded in 2019. Students source and diligence companies, and promising opportunities are presented to an investment committee of alumni investors who vote on them.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsuniversitystudent-runevergreenbrown universityearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsVan Wickle Ventures lists 12 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (33%), Food & Agriculture (13%) and AI & Machine Learning (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside AENU, Abstraction Capital and Articulate.
No funding round on record names Van Wickle Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Van Wickle Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 12. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 33% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 13% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 7% | 1% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 7% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AENU | 1 |
| Abstraction Capital | 1 |
| Articulate | 1 |
| Axial | 1 |
| Capital Factory | 1 |
| Cleo Capital | 1 |
| Collab Capital | 1 |
| E14 Fund | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 30th | 12 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 | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1192%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company18%
- 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 Van Wickle Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
12 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company offers dance fitness classes with a live DJ | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Apprenta provides a platform for employers to fund career pathways and education programs for students, managing the process from application to hire. | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Ghia produces non-alcoholic apéritifs | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Fishwife sells tinned seafood products | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Intus Care provides technology solutions for PACE programs, including electronic medical records, risk adjustment, and compliance services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| LEXI digitizes buildings and assets by connecting unconnected building equipment, sensors and spaces online and distributing intelligence from device to edge to cloud. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| LGND turns decades of satellite and aerial imagery into queryable datasets, so you can find patterns, derive insights and act fast. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| MediCircle connects people with unused medications to patients who need them, allowing for free donation and receipt of medication | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Oh Norman! creates and sells healthy pet products | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Quiltt provides a unified open banking API platform for financial data aggregation and enrichment | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| TakeAway MD is a social platform built and run by vetted medical professionals to provide credible health information | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- vanwickleventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 12
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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