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What does Watchfire Ventures invest in?
Watchfire Ventures invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Consumer Products, Commerce Infrastructure Software and Industrial Modernization Technology.
Watchfire Ventures highlights
- 01
1 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
We invest in early stage companies across these four verticalsFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Consumer ProductsCommerce Infrastructure SoftwareIndustrial Modernization Technology
- Based in
- Montecito, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2025
1 round
- Jul
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 registration2 named
PMPatrick Martin DillinghamManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SMSean Michael KoffelManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 3 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 the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$130Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Watchfire Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 309929
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
10 of 16 we have independently watched raise
BlackbuffaloConfidotechEatlittlesesameFruitscoutGearflowOatsovernightResourcemonitorScotchposStayTherenaturalCommanderaiGetclippGrazaLinoktechStressfreeSweetnothings
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.