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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Investor · Madison, WI, United States · North America
WARF is the designated patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, managing intellectual property and moving innovations to market. It also manages an investment portfolio that funds an annual grant to support UW-Madison research, and runs programs including WARF Accelerator, WARF Therapeutics and WARF Ventures.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsuniversity spinoutstechnology transferlife scienceshealth carecomputer scienceclean tech
Your fit with Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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Or find every investor that fitsWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (75%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (25%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Catalio Capital Management, Corundum Neuroscience and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 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 roundWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 20% |
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 | 4 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Catalio Capital Management | 1 |
| Corundum Neuroscience | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Dhuna Ventures | 1 |
| EDBI | 1 |
| Foothill Ventures | 1 |
| Heinz Ventures | 1 |
| Jumpspace Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 75% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Catalio Capital Management
Compare Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 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 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 8 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Cancer Care develops and provides radiation therapy solutions, including particle and photon therapy, with a focus on upright patient positioning | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Madison Scientific develops solutions for hydrocephalus patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Neuraworx Medical Technologies, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing Intelligent Cerebrovascular Pacing as a technology aimed at improving brain health with bioelectronic solutions that enhance glymphatic system function. | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Qolab is a quantum hardware company that engineers industrial-grade superconducting QPUs built for useful computation. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- warf.org
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 4
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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