# Watchfire Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Watchfire Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 1 investment on record, latest Jul 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/watchfire-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Watchfire Ventures Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Oct 2026, closing $1M. Last cheque observed Jul 2025. Email Quiet New fund $1.3M, Oct 2026 VC firm Seed Series A Series B Consumer Products Commerce Infrastructure Software Industrial Modernization Technology Follow Watchfire Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fwatchfire-ventures) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record Since the last cheque **474** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$8.5M** Cheque size, as they say **$100K – $5.0M** Rounds led **0 of 1** Pitch Watchfire Ventures ## 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 verticals From their own website - **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** $100K – $5.0M as they say - **Stages:** Seed Series A Series B - **Sectors:** Consumer Products Commerce Infrastructure Software Industrial Modernization Technology - **Based in:** Montecito, United States - **Cold pitches:** Not accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances** - **2025** 1 round - **Jul** **[Little Sesame](https://millionrounds.com/company/little-sesame)** Series A · US · TechStartups **$8.5M** With 3 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** PM **Patrick Martin Dillingham** Managing Director of the General Partner i Filing they signed SM **Sean Michael Koffel** Managing Director of the General Partner i Filing 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 **$130M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026 **Exempt** reporting adviser venture 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 [Blackbuffalo](https://millionrounds.com/company/black-buffalo)[Confidotech](https://millionrounds.com/company/confido)[Eatlittlesesame](https://millionrounds.com/company/little-sesame)[Fruitscout](https://millionrounds.com/company/fruitscout)[Gearflow](https://millionrounds.com/company/gearflow)[Oatsovernight](https://millionrounds.com/company/oats-overnight)[Resourcemonitor](https://millionrounds.com/company/resource-monitor)[Scotchpos](https://millionrounds.com/company/scotch)[Stay](https://millionrounds.com/company/stay)[Therenatural](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-renatural) Commanderai Getclipp Graza Linoktech Stressfree Sweetnothings 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 **$1.3M** raised in Oct 2026 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 **$8.5M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%** - **Said size:** $100K – $5.0M - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Jul 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Series A said *1* - Seed said *-* - Series B said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 **Pitching Watchfire 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 *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Watchfire Ventures put money into. [**Little Sesame** $8.5M · Jul 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/little-sesame) ## Quick answers about Watchfire Ventures ### 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. ### How active is Watchfire Ventures? 1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jul 2025. ### What has Watchfire Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Little Sesame (Series A, Jul 2025). ### How big are Watchfire Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $8.5M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $5.0M. ### Is Watchfire Ventures investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jul 2025. ### What kind of investor is Watchfire Ventures? Watchfire Ventures is a VC firm based in Montecito, United States. ### How much does Watchfire Ventures manage? About $130M, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026). ### Has Watchfire Ventures raised a new fund? 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