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What does Bow Capital invest in?
Bow Capital invests most often at Series A and Series C (71% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Robotics, Defense and Logistics.
Bow Capital highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Series C: 71% of its rounds
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Led 3 rounds
What they do
Bow Capital backs founders building AI for the real world... Seed–Series A stage focus $5M average investment into core companies.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- RoboticsDefenseLogistics
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first11 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
- 2022
1 round
- Oct
- 2019
4 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- Mar
- Feb
- 2018
3 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Jun
- 2017
2 rounds
- Sept
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
GBGrady BurnettMANAGING DIRECTORiFiling they signed
JCJames ChanCFOiForm ADV
MRMurray RodeManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RSRafi SyedManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
VYVivek Yeshwant RanadiveManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 10 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$494Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- BOW Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 285101
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
12 of 23 we have independently watched raise
Ambi RoboticsBentoMLCNaughtClaritypeClearDeepCellGenEditGrayMatter RoboticsHumanSignalInfinant HealthKloudlessLorisAimatXArangoDBEversight LabsFarmers Business NetworkFlywheelGoodRecHitchJerryLavaLawyawLinus Bio
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.