# Darling Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Darling Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 13 investments on record, latest Oct 2018. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/darling-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Darling Ventures Last cheque observed Oct 2018. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds. Quiet VC firm Website unconfirmed Now at focal.vc Pre-seed Seed Series A AI/ML Adtech B2B Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 13 on record Since the last cheque **2946** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$11M** Cheque size, as they say **$250K – $500K** Rounds led **0 of 13** Sole investor **4 rounds** Mostly in **United States, 92%** Pitch Darling Ventures ## Darling Ventures highlights - 01 13 rounds on record - 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 80% of its rounds - 03 Sole investor in 4 rounds, median $1.1M ## What they do - **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** $250K – $500K as they say - **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B - **Sectors:** AI/ML Adtech B2B - **Based in:** San Francisco, United States - **Cold pitches:** Accepted A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. [Tell us the right one](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=darling-ventures). ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **13 appearances** - **2018** 2 rounds - **Oct** **[Human](https://millionrounds.com/company/human)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$21M** With 5 others - **May** **[Thryve](https://millionrounds.com/company/thryve)** US · FinSMEs **$1.4M** With 5 others - **2015** 4 rounds - **Oct** **[Cloudwear](https://millionrounds.com/company/cloudwear)** Seed · US **Undisclosed** Sole investor - **Jul** **[Kyndi](https://millionrounds.com/company/kyndi)** Venture · US **$1.1M** Sole investor - **May** **[avocarrot](https://millionrounds.com/company/avocarrot)** Seed · GB **$2.0M** With 3 others - **May** **[Bridgefy](https://millionrounds.com/company/bridgefy)** Seed · US **$225K** With 2 others - **2014** 6 rounds - **Sept** **[Tapster](https://millionrounds.com/company/tapster)** Seed **Undisclosed** With 1 other - **Sept** **[DWNLD](https://millionrounds.com/company/dwnld)** US **$2.0M** Sole investor - **Sept** **[Omni](https://millionrounds.com/company/omni)** Seed · US **Undisclosed** With 23 others - **Sept** **[Bridgefy](https://millionrounds.com/company/bridgefy)** Seed · US **$100K** Sole investor - **May** **[Weave](https://millionrounds.com/company/weave)** Seed · US **$120K** With 4 others - **Apr** **[SendHub](https://millionrounds.com/company/sendhub)** US **Undisclosed** With 1 other - **2013** 1 round - **Mar** **[Gridium](https://millionrounds.com/company/gridium)** Series A · US · sec.gov **$750K** With 2 others 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 We hold **4** 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 they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **14** of 40 we have independently watched raise [Beam Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/beam-health)[Bridgefy](https://millionrounds.com/company/bridgefy)[Briq](https://millionrounds.com/company/briq)[Flamingo](https://millionrounds.com/company/flamingo)[Geminus](https://millionrounds.com/company/geminus)[Gleam](https://millionrounds.com/company/gleam)[Gridium](https://millionrounds.com/company/gridium)[Keragon](https://millionrounds.com/company/keragon)[Lightswitch](https://millionrounds.com/company/lightswitch)[Ombre](https://millionrounds.com/company/ombre)[On Me](https://millionrounds.com/company/on-me)[Openbuilder](https://millionrounds.com/company/openbuilder)[Pump](https://millionrounds.com/company/pump)[Trelent](https://millionrounds.com/company/trelent) 1der Altira Health Brackett Conquest Labs Coworker Diagraphics Doxx Drafter Eclipse Evallos Finch Claims Kaiden L2 Labs Masthead Maxed Precurion Prescient Solderable Stark Subliminal Labs Takeoff Tenvos Thoras Threadwise Unobio Yrikka 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. ## The cheque Pre-seed Seed Series A Median round joined **$11M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$1.1M** Led 0 of 13 rounds **0%** - **Said size:** $250K – $500K - **Sole investor:** 4 rounds - **Last cheque:** Oct 2018 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *7* - Series A said *1* - Series B said *1* - Venture *1* - Pre-seed said *-* Cheques by year Led Joined 2013 2018 Often in the room with - [Eastlink Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eastlink-capital) 2 **Pitching Darling Ventures?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Who they invest alongside The investors most often in the same rounds as Darling Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed. [**Eastlink Capital** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eastlink-capital) ## Recently backed The latest companies Darling Ventures put money into. [**Human** $21M · Oct 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/human) ## Quick answers about Darling Ventures ### What does Darling Ventures invest in? Darling Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI/ML, Adtech and B2B. ### How active is Darling Ventures? 13 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Oct 2018. ### What has Darling Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Human (Series B, Oct 2018) and Thryve (Undisclosed round, May 2018). ### How big are Darling Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $11M. It says it writes cheques of $250K to $500K. ### Does Darling Ventures lead rounds? Rarely, if at all: none of its 13 investments on record names it as the lead. ### Where does Darling Ventures invest? Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (92%) and the United Kingdom (8%). ### Is Darling Ventures investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Oct 2018. ### Who does Darling Ventures invest alongside? Most often Eastlink Capital (2 rounds together). ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=darling-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=darling-ventures)