Investors / United States / Watchfire Ventures
Watchfire Ventures
Venture capital · Montecito, CA, United States · North America
Watchfire Ventures is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies. It focuses on four verticals: consumer products, commerce infrastructure software, industrial modernization technology, and tech-enabled services.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software
In its own wordsconsumer productscommerce infrastructuresoftwareindustrial technologytech-enabled services
Your fit with Watchfire Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsWatchfire Ventures lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Industrial & Manufacturing (25%) and Enterprise Software (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Barrel Ventures, 11 Tribes Ventures and BFG Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Watchfire Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 50% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Barrel Ventures | 2 |
| 11 Tribes Ventures | 1 |
| BFG Partners | 1 |
| Breakwater Ventures | 1 |
| Context Ventures | 1 |
| Footwork | 1 |
| Gaingels | 1 |
| Insight Partners | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 25% | 8% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Watchfire 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 Watchfire Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Watchfire Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Watchfire Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CommanderAI provides a CRM and prospecting solution for waste, recycling, and scrap haulers | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Confido provides AI infrastructure for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands to manage finance, sales, and operations | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- watchfireventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 2
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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