Brand Foundry Ventures has 7 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.

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It is a venture capital firm based in Austin, US, founded in 2018. It led 5 of the 10 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Authors First's $10M Seed round in October 2026, which it led, alongside Mike Duggal, Andy Mills, Robert A. Hamwee and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Commerce and retail (2) and Education (2). It has co-invested with American Family Ventures, Stephens Group and Duquesne, most often American Family Ventures (4 rounds).

About Brand Foundry Ventures

What Brand Foundry Ventures invests in

• Commerce and retail · 2 · 29%
• Education · 2 · 29%
• Sales and marketing · 1 · 14%
• Consumer and social · 1 · 14%
• Media and content · 1 · 14%
• Insurance · 1 · 14%
• AI agents · 1 · 14%
• Data and analytics · 1 · 14%

Brand Foundry Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
AAuthors First	Seed · $10M · lead	Oct 7, 2026	Mike Duggal, Andy Mills, Robert A. Hamwee (lead) +2
LLoonen	Seed · $6M · lead	Dec 12, 2025	none named
LLedgebrook	Series B+ · $65M	Jun 20, 2025	Hummingbird VC, Stephens Group (lead), Duquesne +2
VVizit	Series B+ · $25M	Oct 2, 2024	Infinity Ventures, Lakefront Partners, eGateway Capital +6
LLucky Energy	Series A · $11.75M · lead	Sep 30, 2024	Imaginary Ventures, 359 Capital, Sugar Capital
LLedgebrook	Series B+ · $17M	Sep 12, 2024	Stephens Group, Duquesne (lead), American Family Ventures
LLedgebrook	Series A · $24M	Mar 28, 2024	American Family Ventures (lead), Floating Point
LLedgebrook	Seed · $4.6M	Apr 25, 2023	Markd (lead)

How Brand Foundry Ventures invests

Brand Foundry Ventures portfolio companies

• AAuthors First$10MSeed · Oct 2026
• LLoonen$6MSeed · Dec 2025
• LLedgebrook$65MSeries B+ · Jun 2025
• VVizit$25MSeries B+ · Oct 2024
• LLucky Energy$11.75MSeries A · Sep 2024
• JJewelbotsbacker
• ZZippybacker

Most frequent co-investors

• AAmerican Family Ventures4 shared rounds · last Jun 20, 2025
• SStephens Group2 shared rounds · last Jun 20, 2025
• DDuquesne2 shared rounds · last Jun 20, 2025
• FFloating Point2 shared rounds · last Jun 20, 2025
• IInfinity Ventures2 shared rounds · last Oct 2, 2024
• LLakefront Partners2 shared rounds · last Oct 2, 2024
• EeGateway Capital2 shared rounds · last Oct 2, 2024
• BBolt Venture1 shared round · last Oct 7, 2026
• MMike Duggal1 shared round · last Oct 7, 2026
• AAndy Mills1 shared round · last Oct 7, 2026
• RRobert A. Hamwee1 shared round · last Oct 7, 2026
• JJohn Kline1 shared round · last Oct 7, 2026

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• WWoori Venture Partners7 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• DDFF Ventures6 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Commerce and retail).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 10 rounds on Recent Funding that name Brand Foundry Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Brand Foundry Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/brand-foundry-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.