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Differential Ventures portfolio
Differential Ventures has 7 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in New York, US, founded in 2017. Its most recent investment on record is askpolly's $3M Seed round in September 2026. By category, its portfolio leans toward Education (3) and HR and recruiting (2). It has co-invested with Flint Capital, National Grid Partners and Glilot Capital Partners, most often Flint Capital (3 rounds).
About Differential Ventures
What Differential Ventures invests in
- Education · 3 · 43%
- HR and recruiting · 2 · 29%
- Consumer and social · 1 · 14%
- Media and content · 1 · 14%
- Cybersecurity · 1 · 14%
- Developer tools and cloud · 1 · 14%
- Legal and compliance · 1 · 14%
- Fintech · 1 · 14%
Differential Ventures recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed · $3M | none named | ||
| Series B+ · $60M | Glilot Capital Partners, Flint Capital, Merlin Ventures +1 | ||
| Series A · $21M | Glilot Capital Partners (lead), Flint Capital, Merlin Ventures +2 | ||
| Seed · $4.2M | Flint Capital (lead), Global Founders Capital | ||
| Seed · $2.5M | Neal Dempsey, DMZ, Generation Ventures (lead) +4 |
How Differential Ventures invests
Differential Ventures portfolio companies
Aaskpolly$3MSeed · Sep 2026
CCyolo$60MSeries B+ · Jun 2022
CCognota$2.5MSeed · Sep 2019
PPlastic Labsbacker
PPostSigbacker
CCircuit Mindbacker
KKnockribacker
| Company | Round with Differential Ventures | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Education |
Seed · $3M | $3M | Sep 3, 2026 Seed |
Cybersecurity |
Series B+ · $60M | $85.2M | Jun 28, 2022 Series B+ |
HR and recruiting |
Seed · $2.5M | $13.75M | Mar 12, 2026 Series B+ |
| backer | $5.35M | Jun 25, 2026 Seed | |
Legal and compliance |
backer | $4.1M | Sep 16, 2025 Seed |
Logistics and mobility |
backer | $18.5M | Oct 28, 2026 Series A |
HR and recruiting |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Most frequent co-investors
FFlint Capital3 shared rounds · last Jun 28, 2022
NNational Grid Partners2 shared rounds · last Jun 28, 2022
GGlilot Capital Partners2 shared rounds · last Jun 28, 2022
MMerlin Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jun 28, 2022
GGlobal Founders Capital2 shared rounds · last Jul 27, 2021
CCathexis Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
GGeneration Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
RRipple Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
CCEAS Investments1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
NNeal Dempsey1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
DDMZ1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
- IIdeal Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 17, 2019
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Education).
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 5 rounds on Recent Funding that name Differential 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 Differential Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/differential-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.