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What does Darwin Ventures invest in?
Darwin Ventures invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Information Technology and Healthcare.
Darwin Ventures highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Darwin Ventures is a venture capital fund of fundsFrom their own website
- Type
- Fund of funds
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- TechnologyInformation TechnologyHealthcare
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- 2019
1 round
- Dec
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 registration2 named
JFJr. Frank CaufieldManaging General Partner, Managing MemberiForm ADV
RPRyan Patrick CottonChief Compliance Officer, PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 2 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
$908Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Darwin Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 157665
Funds on its Form ADV
10 private funds, $593M in gross assets · filed Oct 2024
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds II, L.P.Venture30 investors$213M
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds IV, L.P.Venture74 investors$108M
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds V, L.P.Venture75 investors$87M
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds VI, L.P.Venture63 investors$76M
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds III, L.P.Venture56 investors$74M
- Darwin Venture Capital Fund-OF-Funds, L.P.Venture20 investors$12M
- Darwin Ventures VI-A LLCVenture4 investors$9.4M
- Darwin Ventures V-A LLCVenture2 investors$7.1M
- Darwin Ventures VI-B LLCVenture2 investors$6.3M
- Darwin Ventures VI-C LLCVenture1 investor$1.1M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
32 of 60 we have independently watched raise
23andMeAdRollAirbnbBlue ApronBondClouderaDocuSignEtsyFlatironFunders ClubGNIPGoProJobviteKayakLightspeedOscarPalantirPill PackPoshmarkRocket LabSendGridSquareStanceStripeTeslaTruliaTrusteerUberWarby ParkerWishYammerZazzle8VCAccel PartnersAcmeAltos VenturesAvalon VenturesBaseline VenturesBay City CapitalBlumberg CapitalBorealis VenturesDeepMindFounders FundFuture VenturesGeneral CatalystInventus Capital PartnersKhosla VenturesKleiner PerkinsMadrona Venture GroupMenlo VenturesMerus CapitalMission VenturesMonitor VenturesNEAOATVOak Investment PartnersOpus CapitalPinnacle VenturesPresidio PartnersRivervestand 8 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.