# Swell Partners: portfolio, investments and team

> Swell Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 1 investment on record, latest Nov 2019. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/swell-vc (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Swell Partners

Last cheque observed Nov 2019. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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Quiet New fund $2.5M, Sept 2023 VC firm

Seed Series A Series B Enterprise Space & Defense Biology

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record

Since the last cheque **2545** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$13M** Rounds led **0 of 1**

Pitch Swell Partners

## Swell Partners highlights

- 01 1 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds

## What they do

> A New York-based pre-seed and seed fund investing in AI for critical infrastructure. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** Not stated
- **Stages:** Seed Series A Series B
- **Sectors:** Enterprise Space & Defense Biology
- **Based in:** New York, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances**

- **2019** 1 round
- **Nov** **[Loft Orbital](https://millionrounds.com/company/loft-orbital)** Series A · US · Forbes **$13M** With 5 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

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **2 named**

JB **James Bennett Ralston III** Managing Director i Filing they signed

MB **Mrityunjay Bennett Patil** Managing Director i Filing they signed

We also 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 23 we have independently watched raise

[Archetype](https://millionrounds.com/company/archetype)[Array Labs](https://millionrounds.com/company/array-labs)[Askari Intelligent defense](https://millionrounds.com/company/askari-defense)[Curafi Expanding access](https://millionrounds.com/company/curafi)[Deel Leading the](https://millionrounds.com/company/deel)[Deepnight](https://millionrounds.com/company/deepnight)[Fiveable Making learning](https://millionrounds.com/company/fiveable)[Loft Orbital](https://millionrounds.com/company/loft-orbital)[Modern Intelligence Advancing](https://millionrounds.com/company/modern-intelligence)[Mparticle](https://millionrounds.com/company/mparticle)[Parametric](https://millionrounds.com/company/parametric)[Pebblepost](https://millionrounds.com/company/pebblepost)[RyboDyn](https://millionrounds.com/company/rybodyn)[TapAd The first](https://millionrounds.com/company/tapad) Credal Security layer Crisp Exodys Recycling spent Godela Foundational AI IronGrid Foundation industrial Klerk Simplifying corporate Northstar Unbiased financial Sharpei Enabling retailers Treasure Transforming idle

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

**$2.5M**

raised in Sept 2023

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Seed Series A Series B

Median round joined **$13M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%**

- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Nov 2019

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series A said *1*
- Seed said *-*
- Series B said *-*

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## Recently backed

The latest companies Swell Partners put money into.

[**Loft Orbital** $13M · Nov 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/loft-orbital)

## Quick answers about Swell Partners

### What does Swell Partners invest in?

Swell Partners invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise, Space & Defense and Biology.

### How active is Swell Partners?

1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Nov 2019.

### What has Swell Partners invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Loft Orbital (Series A, Nov 2019).

### How big are Swell Partners's cheques?

The median round it joins is $13M.

### Is Swell Partners investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Nov 2019.

### What kind of investor is Swell Partners?

Swell Partners is a VC firm based in New York, United States.

### Has Swell Partners raised a new fund?

Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Sept 2023, reporting $2.5M raised.

### When was Swell Partners founded?

Swell Partners was founded in 2014.

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