What does Goodwater Capital invest in?
Goodwater Capital invests most often at Seed and Venture (72% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B-to-c, B2C and B2b2c.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 526 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $5.0M, Feb 2025VC firm
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43 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 72% of its rounds
Sole investor in 24 rounds, median $1.3M
Filed 3 private fund offerings with the SEC, the most recent in 2022-10From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first526 appearances
33 rounds
78 rounds
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Goodwater Capital invests most often at Seed and Venture (72% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B-to-c, B2C and B2b2c.
526 investments on record, 43 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 11. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Fever (Growth, Sept 2026), Wispr (Series B, Aug 2026) and Zepto (Undisclosed round, Jul 2026).
The median round it joins is $4.1M.
Sometimes: it led 11 of its 526 investments on record (2%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (51%), the United Kingdom (9%) and Singapore (9%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 43 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (186 rounds together), Gaingels (32 rounds together) and 500 Global (23 rounds together).
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