What does Compound invest in?
Compound invests most often at Seed and Venture (73% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as African American, Second-generation and D&i.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 79 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $4.3M, Aug 2026VC firm
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12 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 73% of its rounds
Sole investor in 8 rounds, median $2.6M
1 exits from the portfolio
Compound is a Thesis-Driven, Research-Centric Investment FirmFrom their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first79 appearances
9 rounds
18 rounds
7 rounds
6 rounds
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.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration11 named
We also hold 18 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.
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
AIFleetAchiraAntimatterBoost BiomesBriefly BioConceptionCrowdAICulture BiosciencesDapper LabsDeepgramFort RoboticsImvitroJuvena TherapeuticsLivepeerLudaManifestMoleculeNoatNowstaOsaroPanthalassaPartyDAOPayjoyPear BioPheironPlural EnergyPolyphronPrime IntellectRed Queen BioSootSparkAIStacksSuppCoTalkspaceThe Clearing CompanyThe General Intelligence CompanyThe GraphTiaWayveA Crypto FutureAlectioAlljoinedArbitrumAtlasBionautCatalystCellvoyantCryptoDailyDelphoEaseHairDAOHyphenKinetiqLos Angeles ProjectMagrathea MetalsOrbital MaterialsRunwayShadowsSpaeroand 3 more
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.
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Compound. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Compound put money into.
6 episodes naming Compound in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

Building in Layers: The Compound Startup Playbook
MentionsCompound

The Past, Present, and Future of AI, Robotics, Venture Capital, Crypto | Why Deep Tech Startups Mess up Value Capture | Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner, Compound
WithMichael Dempsey

E144: How the World’s Top Investors Compound Their Advantages
MentionsCompound

Gartner: Compound Insights - [Business Breakdowns, EP.160]
MentionsCompound

E27: Compound’s Michael Dempsey on Thesis-Driven vs Founder-Driven Investing
WithMichael Dempsey
MentionsCompound

SaaStr 670: CRO Confidential: Why The First Rule You Know About Building Software is Wrong. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund
WithParker Conrad
MentionsCompoundFounders Fund

Anthropic, Sequoia Investor: 55x Returns in 18 Months, Is Anthropic Worth Trillions? | Vishal Verma

20Growth: How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow and Superhuman | Why You Should Do Paid Ads Today and How To Do Them | How to Build the Best Referral Programs and How to Crush UGC with Matt Swulinski

NVIDIA Updates, Why Apple Still Hasn't Cracked AI, Regeneration to Buy 23andMe | Walter Chen, Michael Dempsey, Joshua Steinman, Sriram Krishnan

EP 124: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi Breaks Down the AI Hype-Cycle
Compound invests most often at Seed and Venture (73% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as African American, Second-generation and D&i.
79 investments on record, 12 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Polyphron (Seed, Sept 2026), Barma (Venture, Jun 2026) and Orbital Industries (Series B, May 2026).
The median round it joins is $7.2M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 79 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (68%), the United Kingdom (13%) and Denmark (10%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 12 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (8 rounds together), Coinbase Ventures (5 rounds together) and Metamorphic Ventures (5 rounds together).
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