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FirsthandVC portfolio
FirsthandVC has 4 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 Claymont, US, founded in 2025. Its most recent investment on record is Knox Systems's $25M Series A round in March 2026, alongside Benchstrength, Hearst Ventures, Ridgeline and 5 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Legal and compliance (2) and Developer tools and cloud (2).
About FirsthandVC
What FirsthandVC invests in
- Legal and compliance · 2 · 50%
- Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 50%
- Cybersecurity · 1 · 25%
- AI agents · 1 · 25%
- Logistics and mobility · 1 · 25%
- Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 25%
How FirsthandVC invests
| Stage | Deals | Capital in rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Series A | 1 100% | $25M |
FirsthandVC portfolio companies
KKnox Systems$25MSeries A · Mar 2026
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| Company | Round with FirsthandVC | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Legal and compliance |
Series A · $25M | $25M | Mar 17, 2026 Series A |
| backer | $17M | Oct 6, 2026 Series A | |
Legal and compliance |
backer | undisclosed | — |
AI agents |
backer | $37M | Feb 12, 2026 Series A |
Most frequent co-investors
FFelicis1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
MM121 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
BB Capital1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
OOkta Ventures1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
BBenchstrength1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
HHearst Ventures1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
RRidgeline1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
MMongoDB Ventures1 shared round · last Mar 17, 2026
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Legal and compliance).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 1 round on Recent Funding that name FirsthandVC. 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 FirsthandVC, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/firsthandvc (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.
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