Investors / United States / Vermilion Cliffs Ventures
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures is a venture fund that writes $200K–$500K checks at pre-seed and seed. It backs technical founders and provides hands-on help with go-to-market, hiring, and launches.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
In its own wordsdeveloper toolsinfrastructureaisecuritygo-to-marketproduct-led growth
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Or find every investor that fitsVermilion Cliffs Ventures lists 24 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (41%), Enterprise Software (18%) and Cybersecurity (9%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Abstraction Capital and Boldstart Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Vermilion Cliffs 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 Vermilion Cliffs Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 24. 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 | 17% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 59th | 24 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 21% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 41% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 18% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Developer Tools | 9% | 0% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Abstraction Capital | 2 |
| Boldstart Ventures | 2 |
| Cervin | 2 |
| Eight Capital | 2 |
| Eniac Ventures | 2 |
| Irregular Expressions | 2 |
| ex/ante | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2396%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 Vermilion Cliffs 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 Vermilion Cliffs Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Vermilion Cliffs Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Vermilion Cliffs Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
24 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aranya automates GPU orchestration to turn bare metal into custom production-ready clusters in 48 hours | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Argilla is a collaboration tool for AI engineers and domain experts to build high-quality datasets | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Atomic provides source code management and a Git alternative | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Baz provides an AI code review platform that reviews plans, pull requests, security, and merge readiness with AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Catio provides a system for making and governing architecture decisions for modern software systems | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Chariot Claims searches for claims that users may qualify for, files them, and works to get users paid for the harm caused by corporations. | Legal & ComplianceConsumer | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Cognee provides an open-source agent memory platform to help agents recall what a company knows | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Colimit helps with formal specification-driven development, including writing, verifying and generating code. | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Delight provides a customer marketing agent that helps manage customer relationships and follow-ups | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Fiveonefour provides managed infrastructure, agents, and data for experimenting with agents as users | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| The company is building computing for serverless | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Clarify provides an autonomous customer relationship management (CRM) system that automates tasks such as prospecting, enrichment, reporting, and call intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Keycard provides runtime authentication for agents, giving each agent its own identity, authority to act, and access to resources under a defined policy. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Mach9 makes web-based CAD software that uses AI to automatically extract features such as breaklines, curbs, and poles from raw LiDAR and reality-capture scans for civil engineering and survey work. | Space & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| We build software that uses fewer resources | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |||
| Polylane finds issues in a user's app and fixes them before they become incidents. | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Sequin streams data from Postgres directly to various destinations such as Kafka, Redis, and more. | Enterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Staris proves which vulnerability candidates are exploitable in a running app and ships the fix at the customer's release cadence. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- vermilion.fund
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 24
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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