What does Industry Ventures invest in?
Industry Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Venture Capital and Software.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 139 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $1.3B, Oct 2026VC firm
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11 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series B and Series A: 50% of its rounds
Sole investor in 11 rounds, median $10M
3 exits from the portfolio
Industry Ventures has pioneered flexible capital solutions across the venture life cycle: from seed and early-stage investing to late-stage secondaries and VC-backed companies transitioning to buyout.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first139 appearances
6 rounds
25 rounds
17 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 registration23 named
We also hold 37 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
Funds on its Form ADV
30 private funds, $7.5B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Venture 20Secondary investment fund 10
And 20 more on the filing.
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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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 listed3 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 Industry Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Industry Ventures put money into.
6 episodes naming Industry Ventures in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

Inside Goldman’s $22B Bet on Venture Capital | Hans Swildens, Industry Ventures
WithHans Swildens

E229: Inside Industry Ventures: The $8 Billion Firm Backing 650 Venture Funds

1007. News: Goldman Sachs acquires Industry Ventures and UK fintech funding bounces back to 2022 highs
MentionsIndustry VenturesHSBC

20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI
MentionsIndustry VenturesSoftBank

Hans Swildens of Industry Ventures on the ways VCs are "manufacturing" liquidity in 2025
WithHans Swildens
MentionsIndustry Ventures

E28: Roland Reynold, Industry Ventures on Investing $7 Billion into Startups & Venture Funds
MentionsIndustry VenturesRoland Reynolds

Goldman Sachs' Kyle Kniffen - the arc of alternatives at Goldman Sachs: AGM Live at SuperReturn

How Hans Swildens pulled off a blockbuster Goldman Sachs sale, and what it means for venture liquidity

From SB 243 to ChatGPT: Why it's ‘not cool' to be cautious about AI

Investor Hans Swildens on the Small Tech Buyout Opportunity
Industry Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Venture Capital and Software.
139 investments on record, 11 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 4. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Savvy Wealth (Series C, Sept 2026), Amperesand (Venture, Jun 2026) and Coreshell Technologies (Venture, Apr 2026).
The median round it joins is $19M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $20M.
Sometimes: it led 4 of its 139 investments on record (3%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (74%), Canada (8%) and Singapore (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 11 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (12 rounds together), Alumni Ventures (6 rounds together) and Felicis (5 rounds together).
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