What does The 81 Collection invest in?
The 81 Collection invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Services, Manufacturing and Physical World.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Aug 2026; 1 cheques on record.
VC firmDeploying nowNew fund $1.4M, Jul 2026
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
We invest in businesses serving the 81% of the U.S. economy underserved by venture capitalists and growth equity.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
1 round
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The latest companies The 81 Collection put money into.
The 81 Collection invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Services, Manufacturing and Physical World.
1 investments on record, 1 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Aug 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Grounded (Seed, Aug 2026).
The median round it joins is $5.0M. It says it writes cheques of $200K to $1.0M.
Yes: it is actively investing, with 1 investments in the last 12 months.
The 81 Collection is a VC firm based in Chicago, United States.
About $54M, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026).
Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Jul 2026, reporting $1.4M raised.
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