FPV
Venture capitalJackson · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 2 people tracked
Also known as FPV MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
FPV backs mission-driven founders — described as missionaries rather than mercenaries — who are driven by purpose and deep conviction and often pursue long-term, world-changing visions. The firm aims to identify exceptional founder talent early and partner with them from the very beginning, supporting them throughout their journey. FPV manages capital on behalf of cause-driven institutions such as universities, hospitals, foundations, and research organizations, whose missions align with those of the founders it backs.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 27 of 69 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Enterprise Software ×10Deep Tech ×7SaaS ×7Developer Tools ×6Cybersecurity ×5Biotech ×4Cloud Computing ×3
HQs:United States×16Australia×1Switzerland×1Netherlands×1
Investments · 69 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 12023 · 22017 · 17 dated
Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale AI processors and systems for data centers, enabling high-speed AI training and inference workloads.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Andrew Feldman(Co-founder & CEO)Gary LauterbachMichael JamesSean LieJean-Philippe Fricker
San Francisco, US
Board seatPegah Ebrahimi· per SEC Form D · $15M raise · filed Feb 2026
Opsera provides a no-code, AI-powered platform for DevOps and DevSecOps automation that helps enterprises orchestrate software delivery and security across multiple tools and cloud environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Ravi Kumar Chivukula(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRajeev Madhavan(Director)Huang Lee(Director)Patricia Hatter(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatWesley Chan· per SEC Form D · $25M raise · filed Feb 2025
Cupertino, US
Arpan Shah(Director)Vikram Sekhon(Executive Officer, Director)Shivam Shah(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatPegah Ebrahimi· per SEC Form D · $15M raise · filed Jun 2026
Develops programmable mRNA therapies that last longer and target cells more precisely for cancer and other diseases.
Boston, US
Board seatPegah Ebrahimi· per SEC Form D · $120.1M raise · filed Mar 2026
Dallas, US
JORDAN MILLER(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatWesley Chan· per SEC Form D · $32.8M raise · filed Jun 2023
Astra provides an instant payments API that enables faster fund transfers and account funding for investment and trading platforms.
FintechSaaS
Builders of Artificial Chip Intelligence
Los Angeles, US
Ibrahim El Tatawy(Executive Officer, Director)Gardiner Garrard(Director)Kevin Nazemi(Executive Officer, Director)Ivan Nausieda(Executive Officer, Director)
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ion Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)David Conte(Executive Officer)Tram Phi(Executive Officer)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
Devoted Health offers Medicare Advantage plans and integrated healthcare services for older Americans, including virtual and in-home care, member support guides, and coordination with local providers across 29 states.
HealthtechInsurTechUnited States, US
Todd Park(Executive Officer, Director)Edward Park(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Kocher(Director)William Frist(Director)Kathleen Sebelius(Director)
BoardBryan Roberts(Director)
Fig develops autocomplete software, visual applications, and keyboard shortcuts for terminal interfaces, designed to make command-line tools more usable for both novice and experienced developers.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Brendan Falk(Founder)inMatt Schrage(Founder)in
Flexport provides an AI-driven platform for global supply chain management, offering logistics visibility, customs brokerage, and freight optimization for companies shipping goods internationally.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ryan Petersen(Founder/CEO)inMichael Ronen(Director)Sanne Manders(Executive Officer)Christopher Ferro(Executive Officer)Sudhanshu Priyadarshi(Executive Officer)Ryan Peterson(Executive Officer, Director)
Formation Bio develops drugs through partnerships with health systems, academic medical centers, and research sites, focusing on clinical trials in dermatology, rheumatology, and cardiometabolic diseases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtech
Ben Liu(CEO & Co-Founder)Linhao Zhang(Co-Founder)
Denver, US
GREG SIEGEL(Executive Officer)RACHEL ROMER CARLSON(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)NATALIE MCCULLOUGH(Executive Officer)PAUL FREEDMAN(Executive Officer)LEIGHANNE LEVENSALER(Director)BIJAL SHAH(Executive Officer)
LatticeFlow AI provides technical assessment and governance platforms for AI systems, helping organizations validate and manage AI model risk and compliance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSZurich, CH
Dr. Petar Tsankov(Co-founder and CEO)Dr. Pavol Bielik(Co-founder and CTO)Prof. Dr. Martin Vechev(Co-founder)Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause(Co-founder and Scientific Advisor)
Make effective cybersecurity painless
Manifold Bio combines AI-guided protein design with high-throughput in vivo screening to engineer tissue-targeted biologics and deliver therapeutic payloads to specific organs.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Gleb Kuznetsov(Co-Founder & CEO)inPierce Ogden(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Moderna develops mRNA-based medicines for infectious and serious diseases using its proprietary mRNA platform and design technology.
BiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesCambridge, US
Lorence Kim(Executive Officer)Robert Langer(Director)Peter Hutt(Director)John Mendlein(Director)James R. Kasinger(Executive Officer)Elizabeth Nabel(Director)
Monarch is a personal finance management application that consolidates multiple financial accounts into a single view, automates transaction categorization, and provides customizable budgeting tools.
ConsumerFintech
Val Agostino(Co-Founder and CEO)inJon Sutherland(Co-founder, Head of Design)inOzzie Osman(Co-Founder and Head of Engineering)in
Onshore provides tax and R&D credit advisory services for engineers, farmers, and manufacturers.
AgTechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Dominic Vitucci(Founder)in
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder & CEO)Eiso Kant(Founder)
PsiQuantum builds fault-tolerant quantum computers using photonic qubits and semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsMoreton Bay, AU
Prof. Jeremy O'Brien(Co-founder & Executive Chairman)Prof. Terry Rudolph(Co-founder & Chief Architect)Dr. Pete Shadbolt(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)Prof. Mark Thompson(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Victor Peng(Chief Executive Officer)
Reality Defender develops an AI platform for detecting deepfakes and synthetic media, serving enterprise organizations to prevent fraud and impersonation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Ben Colman(CEO & Co-Founder)inGaurav Bharaj(Co-founder)Ali Shahriyari(Director)Milos Fulton(Executive Officer)
BoardAlexander Ross(Director)Ali Tamaseb(Director)
Reken develops AI-powered security solutions to detect and prevent bot attacks, fraud, and deepfake-enabled scams targeting financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Shuman Ghosemajumder(Co-founder & CEO)Rich Griffiths(Co-founder)
Rembrand provides virtual placement technology for advertisers to integrate non-intrusive, contextually relevant ads into content and media, scaling programmatically across digital channels.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningPalo Alto, US
Omar Tawakol(Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer)in
SandboxAQ combines artificial intelligence and quantum technology to address complex industrial challenges.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechQuantum Computing
Sergey Brin(Founder)
Reinventing mRNA therapeutics that target specific cells for delivery.
Strand is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing programmable mRNA therapeutics for cancers and autoimmune diseases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical DevicesBoston, US
Jacob Becraft(CEO, Co-Founder)Tasuku Kitada(President, Head of R&D, Co-founder)Ron Weiss(Scientific Co-founder)Darrell J. Irvine(Scientific Co-founder)Prashant Nambiar(Chief Scientific Officer)Ethan Cash(Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Management and Program Development)
Translating nature into medicine
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 5
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioCerebras SystemsNASDAQ: CBRSFigmaNYSE: FIGIonQNYSE: IONQOscar HealthNYSE: OSCRTempus AINASDAQ: TEM
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesModerna · forbes.com · Jul 19, 2026
Cerebras Systems · blockonomi.com · Jul 17, 2026
Databricks · wsj.com · Jul 17, 2026
Railway · raillynews.com · Jul 15, 2026
Fig · theinsurer.com · Jul 15, 2026
Flexport · wwd.com · Jul 13, 2026
Reken Cybersecurity for AI threats · fortune.com · Jul 13, 2026
Cognichip · semiengineering.com · Jul 13, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does FPV invest at?
- FPV invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage stages.
- What is FPV's typical check size?
- FPV typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- What sectors does FPV focus on?
- FPV focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is FPV located?
- FPV is headquartered in Jackson, US.
- Does FPV lead rounds?
- FPV typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamHow to recognize a startup unicorn with FPV Ventures Co-Founder Wesley Chan | TC Disrupt24
TechCrunch · Wesley Chan
Ventures #17 w/ Wesley Chan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ FPV Ventures | BIOS
BIOS · Wesley Chan
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