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Wayfinder Ventures
Venture capital
Wayfinder Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests at the earliest stages of startups, sometimes before founders have picked a name. It writes checks and then works with founders through office hours, early sales, early hires and go-to-market support.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
Your fit with Wayfinder Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsWayfinder Ventures lists 81 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 86% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (30%), Fintech (18%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 78% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Soma Capital and Ritual Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Wayfinder 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 Wayfinder Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 81. 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 | 14% |
| Series A | 86% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 80 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 51th | 30% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 30% | 18% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 57 |
| Soma Capital | 18 |
| Ritual Capital | 7 |
| General Catalyst | 6 |
| Transpose Platform | 6 |
| Capitoria | 5 |
| Liquid 2 Ventures | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7593%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company67%
- 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 Wayfinder Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Wayfinder Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Aug 2025 | Series A | |
| 1 Jul 2024 | Series A |
Round details for Wayfinder Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Wayfinder Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
81 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aalo Atomics builds mass-manufactured nuclear power plants designed to power data centers and other applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| AirMyne develops and implements carbon removal technology to help corporations and governments manage CO2 emissions. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Albedo develops and operates satellite systems in very low earth orbit for various applications including imaging, sensing, and communication. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anthrogen is an AI research lab that creates new, programmable molecular tools in biology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a serverless runtime for intelligence, allowing users to run code on demand and share data across their stack. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Astroforge builds spacecraft capable of tracking and mining asteroids in deep space | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Astro Mechanica designs and builds engines, airframes, and flight systems for the aerospace industry. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Avenue automates operations with real-time alerts and workflow automation for modern ops teams. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Browserbase provides a platform for agents to use the web, including cloud browsers, scalable environments, and data retrieval capabilities. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cartage provides freight coordination services, including quoting, booking, tracking, and payment processing, using an AI logistics employee called Wilson. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cedana develops and provides GPU job migration infrastructure for containers | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Classet provides an AI recruiter for phone interviews and hiring teams | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Compound provides a workplace pension and pension tracking app for individuals, employers, and accountants | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Continual builds and runs custom software for companies to manage their operations and data | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CoordinateHQ provides a project management platform for client-facing businesses | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dagger is a continuous integration tool that runs every code change through the same build and test pipelines | Developer ToolsCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Dataleap builds and orchestrates AI employees for enterprises. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Decagon builds, optimizes, and scales AI agents for customer service | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- wayfinder.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2024
- Companies checked
- 81
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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