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Velvet Sea Ventures

Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America

Velvet Sea Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that provides seed-to-growth stage capital investments with strategic support. Its principals have over 80 years of combined experience and over $2 billion invested as founders and venture investors.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Healthcare & Biotech

In its own wordsmulti-stage nft crypto consumer enterprise

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17portfolio companies

1funding rounds on record

0rounds, last 12 months

$5M to $20Mtypical round it comes in at

Series Bmost frequent entry

Velvet Sea Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Healthcare & Biotech (16%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Evolution VC Partners, Samsung NEXT and Seraphim Space.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Velvet Sea 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 Velvet Sea Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 17. 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 round

100%

Pre-seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Growth

Stated on its site

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
	Value
Pre-seed	0%
Seed	0%
Series A	0%
Series B	100%
Growth	0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years

'17

'18

'19

'20

'21

'22

'23

'24

'25

'26

Rounds it ledRounds it joinedPartly covered: rounds are complete from mid-2025

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Funding rounds per year
	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	1	0
'26	0	0

Investor profile

percentile among all firms

This firmMedian of all firms

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Velvet Sea Ventures compared with all firms
Measure	Percentile of all firms	Value
Portfolio size	44th	17 companies
Recent activity	46th	0 rounds in 12 months
Early stage	54th	0% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence	66th	6% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus	38th	26% in its largest sector
Reach	19th	1 country

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

AI & Machine Learning 26%Healthcare & Biotech 16%Enterprise Software 13%Food & Agriculture 7%Education 7%Human Resources 7%Fintech 7%Space & Defense 7%

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Investment themes
	This firm	All checked companies
AI & Machine Learning	26%	18%
Healthcare & Biotech	16%	15%
Enterprise Software	13%	8%
Food & Agriculture	7%	3%
Education	7%	7%
Human Resources	7%	1%
Fintech	7%	12%
Space & Defense	7%	3%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

Evolution VC Partners 2

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Co-investors
	Share
Evolution VC Partners	2
Samsung NEXT	2
Seraphim Space	2
Space Capital	2
01A	1
0BS	1
1confirmation	1
99 Startups	1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

United States100%

Site status

Site answers17100%
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 together

Shared portfolio companies with Velvet Sea VenturesFirms that also back companies together

All co-investors or Compare portfolios with Evolution VC Partners

Compare Velvet Sea Ventures head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Evolution VC Partners2 shared companies

vs Samsung NEXT2 shared companies

vs Seraphim Space2 shared companies

vs Space Capital2 shared companies

vs 01A1 shared company

vs 0BS1 shared company

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Velvet Sea Ventures

Date	Company	Stage
8 Oct 2025	Splash Sportssplashsports.com	Series B

Round details for Velvet Sea Ventures

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Velvet Sea Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

17 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
Arketaarketa.co · United States	Arketa handles scheduling, payments, and payroll for fitness and wellness studios with smart automations	Healthcare & BiotechFintech		Portfolio page
Carda Healthcardahealth.com	Carda Health provides virtual cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
CTDctd.ai	CTD turns a team's collective relationships into a graph that can be used to find warm introductions to people or companies.	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
Etchedetched.com · United States	Etched designs and manufactures AI hardware, specifically frontier inference clusters, which include co-designed chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods.	AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense		Portfolio page
Futurefuture.co	The company provides custom, 1-on-1 personal training with dedicated coaching and support.	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
Healthiegethealthie.com · United States	Healthie provides electronic health record software and practice management tools for healthcare providers	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
Gyngergynger.io	Gynger provides financing infrastructure for compute, paying providers up front and allowing customers to pay once compute is delivered or on flexible terms.	FintechIndustrial & Manufacturing		Portfolio page
KarmaCheckkarmacheck.com	Karmacheck provides background checks and screenings for staffing solutions	Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
LeoLabsleolabs.space	LeoLabs provides orbital intelligence and tracking services for space domain awareness, space traffic management, and launch operations.	AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Liquid Deathliquiddeath.com	The company produces and sells beverages, including energy drinks, soda-flavored sparkling water, and iced tea.	Food & AgricultureConsumer		Portfolio page
Mercatomercato.com	Mercato brings healthy food access, clinical nutrition, and benefit administration together to help healthcare organizations build flexible nutrition programs around the people they serve.	Healthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture		Portfolio page
Splash Sportssplashsports.com · United States	Splash Sports allows users to create and participate in real-money contests for various sports games against friends or others.	GamingEnterprise Software	Oct 2025Series B	Page + round
Strigostrigo.io	Strigo provides interactive virtual labs for software training	EducationEducation		Portfolio page
SuperRare Services ↗︎superrare.com	SuperRare operates a digital and physical art marketplace	E-commerce & MarketplacesEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
Torretorre.co	Torre automates recruitment and job hunting with artificial intelligence	Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Tribbletribble.ai	Tribble provides a platform that automates responses to RFPs, DDQs, and sales calls by utilizing previously approved answers from experts	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
Xona Space Systemsxonaspace.com · United States	Xona provides location services and navigational intelligence through its Pulsar ecosystem, offering advanced positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure.	AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense		Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026

The homepage of Velvet Sea Ventures, as last read — velvetseavc.com as VCinfo last read it

Site: velvetseavc.com
Last read: 5 Nov 2026
Watching since: 5 Nov 2026
Rounds since: 8 Oct 2025
Companies checked: 17

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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