True Ventures

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionOct 18, 2026 · Jul 21, 2026

True Ventures leads pre-seed and seed rounds, usually as a company’s first institutional investor, across software, AI, biology, hardware, consumer products, robotics, energy and defence.

It invests while a business may still be an idea or a small team testing a hypothesis. The partnership works collectively: no individual partner owns a deal, and founders can draw on the wider team from the first meeting.

Its founder network supplies practical introductions to early customers, candidates and other entrepreneurs. The firm has also backed founders in their subsequent companies, making repeat company building part of its investment model.

Sources
Rounds participated in
3
Confirmed lead rounds
1
All roles disclosed
New companies
3
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$152M
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed2
Series C+1

By primary sector

Biotech1
Climate tech1
Edtech1

By country

United States2
United Kingdom1

Rounds

3 in this selection
Basecamp Research

Basecamp Research builds biological AI models from genomic data to help design therapeutics, including protein-based medicines.

$140MSeries C
Participant
Aristotle

Aristotle provides conversational AI tutoring for secondary-school students, with guided questions, a shared whiteboard and practice adapted to their progress.

$5MSeed
Lead
Molten Salt Solutions

Lithium isotope enrichment technology for the fuel needs of advanced fission and fusion reactors.

$7MSeed
Participant