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Stanford University

Stanford University portfolio

Stanford University has 6 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: stanford.edu.

Type: Investor.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 6.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $423M.

Latest deal: Upscale AI · Sep 17, 2025.

About this page

It is an investor based in Stanford, founded in 1885. Its most recent investment on record is Upscale AI's $100M Seed round in September 2025, alongside Qualcomm Ventures, AIspace Ventures, Maverick Silicon and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Cybersecurity (2) and Developer tools and cloud (2). It has co-invested with Urban Innovation Fund, Qualcomm Ventures and Mayfield Fund, most often Urban Innovation Fund (2 rounds).

About Stanford University

Firm type: Investor.

Headquarters: Stanford.

Founded: 1885.

Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage.

Sectors: Crypto & Web3.

What Stanford University invests in

Cybersecurity · 2 · 33%
Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 33%
Health and bio · 2 · 33%
AI infrastructure and compute · 1 · 17%
Stablecoins · 1 · 17%
Crypto payments · 1 · 17%
AI coding and devtools · 1 · 17%
Fintech · 1 · 17%

Stanford University recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
UUpscale AI	Seed · $100M	Sep 17, 2025	Qualcomm Ventures, AIspace Ventures, Maverick Silicon (lead) +6
JJeeves	Series B+ · $180M	Mar 22, 2022	First Citizens Innovation Banking, Haven Ventures, Spike Ventures +6
JJeeves	Series A · $131M	Jun 4, 2021	YC Continuity, Wollef Ventures, Larry Fitzgerald +7
TTruework	Series A · $12M	Jul 30, 2019	Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Heroic Ventures +3

How Stanford University invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	2 50%	$143M
Series B+	1 25%	$180M
Seed	1 25%	$100M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2019	1 25%	$12M
2021	1 25%	$131M
2022	1 25%	$180M
2025	1 25%	$100M

Stanford University portfolio companies

UUpscale AI$100MSeed · Sep 2025
JJeeves$180MSeries B+ · Mar 2022
TTruework$12MSeries A · Jul 2019
DDeepgrambacker
AAugust Healthbacker
CCofactor Genomicsbacker

Company	Round with Stanford University	Total raised	Latest raise
UUpscale AI AI infrastructure and compute	Sep 17, 2025 Seed · $100M	$490M	Jun 22, 2026 Series A
JJeeves Stablecoins	Mar 22, 2022 Series B+ · $180M	$421M	Sep 29, 2026 Series B+
TTruework AI coding and devtools	Jul 30, 2019 Series A · $12M	$92M	Aug 9, 2022 Series B+
DDeepgram Voice and audio AI	backer	$168.8M	Jan 13, 2026 Series B+
AAugust Health Health and bio	backer	$29M	Aug 7, 2025 Series B+
CCofactor Genomics Health and bio	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Cybersecurity).

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 4 rounds on Recent Funding that name Stanford University. 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 Stanford University, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/stanford-university (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.