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First Analysis

First Analysis portfolio

First Analysis has 3 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: firstanalysis.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 3.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 1 of 1.

Latest deal: Gradient Cyber · Apr 25, 2025.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, US, founded in 1982. Its most recent investment on record is Gradient Cyber's Series A round in April 2025, which it led. By category, its portfolio leans toward Developer tools and cloud (2) and Cybersecurity (1).

About First Analysis

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Chicago, US.

Founded: 1982.

Stages: Series A, Series B, Growth.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Digital Health, E-commerce, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Healthtech, IoT, Logistics & Supply Chain, Medical Devices, SaaS, Sales Tech.

Check size: $3M to $10M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 38.

Exits: 3.

Rounds led: 15.

What First Analysis invests in

Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 67%
Cybersecurity · 1 · 33%
Education · 1 · 33%
Sales and marketing · 1 · 33%
Data and analytics · 1 · 33%
Consumer and social · 1 · 33%

How First Analysis invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	1 100%	undisclosed

First Analysis portfolio companies

GGradient CyberSeries A · Apr 2025
UUniversityNowbacker
VViralgainsbacker

Company	Round with First Analysis	Total raised	Latest raise
GGradient Cyber Cybersecurity	Apr 25, 2025 Series A · lead	undisclosed	Apr 25, 2025 Series A
UUniversityNow Developer tools and cloud	backer	undisclosed	—
VViralgains Sales and marketing	backer	undisclosed	—

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Developer tools and cloud).

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 1 round on Recent Funding that name First Analysis. 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 First Analysis, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/first-analysis (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.