Flume Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingIncline Village · Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
Also known as Flume Ventures Entrepreneurs · 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.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 3 people
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What they invest in
from 8 of 12 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×3Enterprise Software ×3SaaS ×3Cloud Computing ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2FoodTech ×2AgTech ×1B2B Marketplaces ×1
HQs:United States×6Canada×1Netherlands×1
Investments · 12 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 52024 · 12013 · 17 dated
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 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 NOM
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
Co-investorsBascom VenturesBattery VenturesBuilders + BackersCastor VenturesCeltic House Asia PartnersDisruptive Ventures+23 more
Defense startup building multi-domain autonomous precision munitions across air, land, and sea for U.S. and allied forces.
Co-investorsFelicis VenturesMenlo VenturesAnorak VenturesFriends Family CapitalHedosophiaMVP Ventures
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-investorsY Combinator10x FoundersComcast VenturesEra FundsFounders FundKindred Ventures+4 more
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 VenturesGraph VenturesKindred VenturesLaunchBay CapitalLoup Ventures+8 more
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
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
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 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+9 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
PositronSupercloud
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Parasail · x.com · Aug 7, 2026
Positron AI · siliconvalleyinvestclub.com · Jul 10, 2026
Hydra · theaiinsider.tech · Jun 24, 2026
Hydra Host · x.com · Jun 24, 2026
Parasail · theaiinsider.tech · Apr 16, 2026
Supercloud · prnewswire.com · Apr 15, 2026
Future Food Fund · eu-startups.com · Feb 26, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- 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 7 tracked co-investors.
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