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Virginia Venture Partners
Venture capital · Richmond, VA, United States · North America
Virginia Venture Partners is a venture capital program of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC), a nonprofit that supports Virginia's innovation economy. It provides seed-stage investment and related funding to startups alongside research commercialization grants and ecosystem programs.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordstechnologyseed stageventure capitalinnovationcommercialization
Your fit with Virginia Venture Partners
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Or find every investor that fitsVirginia Venture Partners lists 54 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Healthcare & Biotech (13%) and Cybersecurity (12%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside MACH37, Early Light Ventures and Kluz Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Virginia Venture Partners, 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 Virginia Venture Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 54. 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 | 75% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 25% |
| 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 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 14th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| MACH37 | 4 |
| Early Light Ventures | 2 |
| Kluz Ventures | 2 |
| Stellar Ventures | 2 |
| VTC Ventures | 2 |
| AAF Management | 1 |
| Amplifyher Ventures | 1 |
| Arthur Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5194%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company36%
- 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 Virginia Venture Partners 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 Virginia Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 May 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 21 Apr 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Virginia Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Virginia Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
54 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electra builds a new category of aircraft that can take off and land in just 150 feet using hybrid-electric technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Swipe Pay provides seamless, secure payment solutions for grocery stores, retail, restaurants, and online businesses. | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| KSL Senior Living manages and acquires independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities throughout the United States. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Liquet Medical develops a catheter for treating blood clots in the lungs | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides personal assistant services to busy people and families, including running errands and scheduling appointments. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Radian Forge produces critical metal components for America's maritime and defense industrial base using advanced metal manufacturing techniques. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| RiPSIM provides an eSIM platform for carriers and governments to manage their eSIM lifecycle | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Rizkly provides cybersecurity software for operational technology and autonomous operations | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| RoI² Ltd provides a Brand Demand Scan to measure demand leakage and untapped potential for businesses | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Royelles provides a learning universe with immersive quests and mission-based experiences that integrate leadership, AI, STEAM and social-emotional learning for PK-12 learners | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Saltenna develops wireless communications and sensing technology for use in difficult environments | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Scanlily automates inventory by photographing items and using AI to describe and categorize them | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for creating, promoting and curating events and experiences. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Schribble uses technology to solve problems in the education industry by improving interoperability between different systems and data repositories | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| SecureDB powers the world's best meetings | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Sedaro provides cloud-based digital engineering and simulation software for national security | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| SeedMetrics provides a business intelligence platform for automated KPI reporting and data management. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | |||
| Shevirah simulates hostile attacks so organizations discover mobile weaknesses before hackers do. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| ShiftOne provides recognition and retention tools for restaurant employees | Food & AgricultureHuman Resources | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- vipc.org
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 54
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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