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Flume Ventures

Venture capitalActively deploying

Incline Village · Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked

Also known as FLUME VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC

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Investment thesis

Flume Ventures positions itself as an entrepreneur-led firm run by seasoned operators and founders who have built category-defining businesses. Rather than describing companies it backs as portfolio companies, Flume frames them as partners and emphasizes hands-on support: strategic guidance, high-value introductions, leveraging an extensive network, and acting like operators within the companies it works with. The firm stresses a collaborative, aligned relationship with founders and a focus on tools and platforms shaping the future of technology.

Invests inSector AgnosticGlobalIncline VillageNorth AmericaUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.

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Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
Incline Village, Nevada, US
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2023
Last 12 months
6 investments
Private fund assets
$230.4M
VC funds
2
Tracked investments
12
Acquisitions
1

Team · 3 people

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Matt Nordby· Managing Partner

What they invest in

from 8 of 12 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×3Enterprise Software ×3SaaS ×3Cloud Computing ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2FoodTech ×2AgTech ×1B2B Marketplaces ×1

HQs:United States×7Canada×1Netherlands×1

Investments · 12 tracked

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By year:2026 · 62024 · 12013 · 18 dated

Rize Educationrize.educationinDec 2024

Rize provides higher education programs and services in partnership with colleges and universities, supporting students and academic institutions.

EdTechSaaSNew York, US

Kevin Harrington(Executive Officer, Director)inConnor McCarthy(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardKareem Zaki(Director)inJeffrey Docking(Director)

Board seatColin Delea· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsThrive Capital

Future Food Fundfuturefoodfund.nlinFeb 2026 · $50M

Future Food Fund is an investment firm that backs early-stage startups in the food and agriculture sector focused on sustainable innovation.

AgTechFoodTechImpact & Social Good

Peter Arensman(Founding Partner)inJeroen Kimmels(Founding & Managing Partner)in

Co-investorsNV NOMFuture Food Fund

GrubMarketgrubmarket.comin𝕏Feb 2026 · $50M

GrubMarket is a food tech company operating a B2B and B2C marketplace in the U.S. and Canada, offering both wholesale produce delivery at discounted prices and AI-powered SaaS software solutions for food supply chain businesses including inventory management, warehouse operations, and eCommerce platforms.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US

Mike Xu(Founder/CEO, , President)in

BoardHans Tung(Director)in

Co-investorsBascom VenturesBattery VenturesBuilders + BackersCastor VenturesCeltic House Asia PartnersDisruptive Ventures+41 more

Heaviside Industriestheheaviside.comAug 2026 · $60M

Defense startup building multi-domain autonomous precision munitions across air, land, and sea for U.S. and allied forces.

Co-investorsFelicis VenturesMenlo VenturesAnorak VenturesCantos VenturesFriends Family CapitalHedosophia+2 more

Hydrahydra.soin𝕏Jun 2026 · $100MAcquired

Hydra provides analytics query execution for Postgres databases with separated compute resources, automatic scaling, and built-in caching, designed for time series and event data workloads across multiple deployment environments.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Joseph Sciarrino(Founder)in

Co-investorsLightstone VenturesY Combinator10X Capital10x FoundersComcast VenturesEra Funds+11 more

Hydra Hosthydrahost.comin𝕏

Hydra develops Brokkr, an operating system that enables independent data centers to operate AI Factories by providing shared infrastructure, customer access, and monetization tools on a unified network.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingMiami, US

Aaron Ginn(CEO)inAriel Deschapell(Executive Officer)inGarrett Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardSteve Jang(Director)in

Co-investorsAccelerator VenturesComcast VenturesDisruptive VenturesGraph VenturesHustle FundKindred Ventures+11 more

Kolide1password.comin𝕏

1Password Enterprise Password Manager (EPM) is a zero-knowledge secrets manager that centralizes passwords, passkeys, SSH keys, API tokens, and AI agent credentials in encrypted, policy-governed vaults.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Sara Teare(Founder)Roustem Karimov(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelICONIQLightspeed Venture PartnersMatrixPrimary Venture PartnersSalesforce Ventures+1 more

Parasailparasail.ioin𝕏

Parasail provides AI inference compute on a flexible fleet that scales with usage, letting companies commit to output (tokens) rather than long-term hardware purchases.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep Tech

Mike Henry(Co-founder)inTim Harris(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsBanyan VenturesBasis Set VenturesIneffable VenturesKindred VenturesThreshold VenturesTouring Capital+1 more

Parasailparasail.network

A (Re)Staking layer for DePIN, providing a modular staking solution and DeFi use cases for staked tokens.

Co-investorsAGE CryptoGenerative VenturesSamsung NextTouring Capital

Positron AIpositron.aiin𝕏Jan 2026 · $230M

Positron builds purpose-built hardware and inference accelerator silicon for running Transformer-based generative AI models, offering inference appliances that map HuggingFace Transformers models onto the hardware and expose an OpenAI API-compliant endpoint.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsLovelock, US

Thomas Sohmers(Executive Officer, Director)inBarrett Woodside(Founder)inEdward Kmett(Founder)inMitesh Agrawal(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardRobert Reid(Director)

Co-investorsAsimov VenturesBanyan VenturesCaucasus VenturesIneffable VenturesInvariantes FundNZVC+10 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

SupercloudU First Capital

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies
Hydra Host Raises $100M Series C

Hydra Host · thesaasnews.com · Jun 16, 2026

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Flume Ventures made?
Flume Ventures has 12 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Flume Ventures invest at?
Flume Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Flume Ventures focus on?
Flume Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
Where is Flume Ventures located?
Flume Ventures is headquartered in Incline Village, US.
Who does Flume Ventures co-invest with?
Flume Ventures most often shares deals with Accel, ICONIQ, Lightspeed Venture Partners, among 17 tracked co-investors.

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