# Humba Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Humba Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 5 investments on record, 2 in the last 12 months, latest Aug 2026. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/humba-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Humba Ventures Last cheque observed Aug 2026; 5 cheques on record. Email Deploying now New fund $40M, Dec 2024 VC firm Seed Series A Nuclear Biotech Manufacturing Follow Humba Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fhumba-ventures) Deploying now **67%** of best year **2** **cheques in 12 months**, 5 on record Since the last cheque **68** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$8.7M** Cheque size, as they say **$750K – $1.5M** Rounds led **0 of 5** Mostly in **United States, 60%** Pitch Humba Ventures ## Humba Ventures highlights - 01 2 cheques in the last 12 months - 02 Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 75% of its rounds ## What they do > We invest in hard tech and hard sectors. From their own website - **Type:** VC firm - **Cheque size:** $750K – $1.5M as they say - **Stages:** Seed Series A - **Sectors:** Nuclear Biotech Manufacturing - **Based in:** San Francisco, United States - **Cold pitches:** Not stated ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **5 appearances** - **2026** 2 rounds - **Aug** **[Airbound](https://millionrounds.com/company/airbound)** Series A · IN · TechCrunch **$37M** With 4 others - **Jul** **[FAST Metals](https://millionrounds.com/company/fast-metals)** Pre-seed · US · Azolla Ventures **$4.3M** With 4 others - **2025** 2 rounds - **Oct** **[Airbound](https://millionrounds.com/company/airbound)** Seed · IN · TechCrunch **$8.7M** With 3 others - **Apr** **[Northwood Space](https://millionrounds.com/company/northwood-space)** US · AlleyWatch **$30M** With 12 others - **2024** 1 round - **May** **[Danti](https://millionrounds.com/company/danti)** Seed · US · Tech Square Ventures **$5.0M** With 7 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. ## What they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **29** of 45 we have independently watched raise [Airbound](https://millionrounds.com/company/airbound)[Antares](https://millionrounds.com/company/antares)[AquaPoro](https://millionrounds.com/company/aquaporo)[Blumen Systems](https://millionrounds.com/company/blumen-systems)[Conductor AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/conductorai)[Critical Energy](https://millionrounds.com/company/critical-energy)[Danti](https://millionrounds.com/company/danti)[Diffuse Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/diffuse-bio)[Etched ($20b)](https://millionrounds.com/company/etched)[Eyebot](https://millionrounds.com/company/eyebot)[Glade](https://millionrounds.com/company/glade)[GovPort](https://millionrounds.com/company/govport)[Hexium](https://millionrounds.com/company/hexium)[Hightouch ($2.75b)](https://millionrounds.com/company/hightouch)[Humane Genomics](https://millionrounds.com/company/humane-genomics)[Jacobi Robotics](https://millionrounds.com/company/jacobi-robotics)[LimaCharlie](https://millionrounds.com/company/limacharlie)[Mytra](https://millionrounds.com/company/mytra)[Northwood Space](https://millionrounds.com/company/northwood-space)[Nourish](https://millionrounds.com/company/nourish)[Orchard Robotics](https://millionrounds.com/company/orchard-robotics)[Parallel Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/parallel-bio)[Placer ($1.5b)](https://millionrounds.com/company/placer-ai)[Polyphron](https://millionrounds.com/company/polyphron)[Sublime Security (~$950m)](https://millionrounds.com/company/sublime-security)[The Lumber Manufactory](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-lumber-manufactory)[The Renatural](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-renatural)[Treeswift](https://millionrounds.com/company/treeswift)[Vetcove (🤫)](https://millionrounds.com/company/vetcove) Adaptyx Ambient Finance Anvil Callypso Caucell Edia Foundations & Frontiers Kerna Labs Mashgin ($1.5b) Shinkei Sidework Swarm Aero Veho ($1.5b) Volition Windborne blog 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. New fund on file **$40M** raised in Dec 2024 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Seed Series A Median round joined **$8.7M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 5 rounds **0%** - **Said size:** $750K – $1.5M - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Aug 2026 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *2* - Pre-seed *1* - Series A said *1* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 Often in the room with - [Lachy Groom](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lachy-groom) 2 - [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners) 2 **Pitching Humba 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 Humba Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed. [**Lachy Groom** Angel **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lachy-groom)[**Lightspeed Venture Partners** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners) ## Recently backed The latest companies Humba Ventures put money into. [**Airbound** $37M · Aug 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/airbound)[**Northwood Space** $30M · Apr 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/northwood-space)[**Danti** $5.0M · May 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/danti) ## Mentioned on podcasts Episodes that name Humba Ventures in their description, not their title. - [How I Invest](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/how-i-invest) 16 Oct 2026 · 1h 2m E443: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Startup Won’t Be a Software Company Mentions [Humba Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/humba-ventures)[Leo Polovets](https://millionrounds.com/fund/leo-polovets) Apple PodcastsShow page - [The a16z Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/a16z) 4 Sept 2025 · 55 min Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated? Mentions [Humba Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/humba-ventures)[Leo Polovets](https://millionrounds.com/fund/leo-polovets)[Case Studies](https://millionrounds.com/person/case-studies-consilia-investments) Apple PodcastsShow page ## Quick answers about Humba Ventures ### What does Humba Ventures invest in? Humba Ventures invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Nuclear, Biotech and Manufacturing. ### How active is Humba Ventures? 5 investments on record, 2 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Aug 2026. ### What has Humba Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Airbound (Series A, Aug 2026), FAST Metals (Pre-seed, Jul 2026) and Northwood Space (Apr 2025). ### How big are Humba Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $8.7M. It says it writes cheques of $750K to $1.5M. ### Does Humba Ventures lead rounds? Rarely, if at all: none of its 5 investments on record names it as the lead. ### Where does Humba Ventures invest? Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (60%) and India (40%). ### Is Humba Ventures investing now? Yes: it is actively investing, with 2 investments in the last 12 months. ### Who does Humba Ventures invest alongside? Most often Lachy Groom (2 rounds together) and Lightspeed Venture Partners (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=humba-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=humba-ventures)