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WI Harper Group

WI Harper Group portfolio

WI Harper Group has 7 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: wiharper.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 7.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 1 of 3.

Capital in their rounds: $126M.

Latest deal: GrubMarket · Oct 5, 2020.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 1993. It led 1 of the 3 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is GrubMarket's $60M Series B+ round in October 2020, alongside Notable Capital, Y Combinator, Celtic House Asia Partners and 7 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Media and content (3) and Commerce and retail (2). It has co-invested with Notable Capital, Y Combinator and Sixty Degree Capital, most often Notable Capital (2 rounds).

About WI Harper Group

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: San Francisco, US.

Founded: 1993.

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

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Crypto & Web3, E-commerce, Energy, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, InsurTech, IoT, Media & Entertainment, Robotics, Semiconductors.

Check size: $5M to $15M.

Portfolio companies: 29.

Exits: 0.

Rounds led: 0.

What WI Harper Group invests in

WI Harper Group recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
GGrubMarket	Series B+ · $60M	Oct 5, 2020	Notable Capital, Y Combinator, Celtic House Asia Partners (lead) +7
GGrubMarket	Series B+ · $25M · lead	Apr 4, 2019	Notable Capital, Evolv Ventures, Arancia International +6
SSynthego	Series B+ · $41M	Jan 4, 2017	Jennifer Doudna, Element Capital Management LLC, SciFi VC +7

How WI Harper Group invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	3 100%	$126M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2017	1 33%	$41M
2019	1 33%	$25M
2020	1 33%	$60M

WI Harper Group portfolio companies

GGrubMarket$60MSeries B+ · Oct 2020
SSynthego$41MSeries B+ · Jan 2017
QQualaroobacker
HHolor Mediabacker
SShots Podcast Networkbacker
EEmqbacker
CCodementorbacker

Company	Round with WI Harper Group	Total raised	Latest raise
GGrubMarket Commerce and retail	Oct 5, 2020 Series B+ · $60M	$205M	Feb 2, 2026 Series B+
SSynthego Health and bio	Jan 4, 2017 Series B+ · $41M	$459M	Feb 17, 2022 Series B+
QQualaroo Data and analytics	backer	undisclosed	—
HHolor Media Consumer and social	backer	undisclosed	—
SShots Podcast Network Consumer and social	backer	undisclosed	—
EEmq Stablecoins	backer	undisclosed	—
CCodementor Developer tools and cloud	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Media and content).

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 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name WI Harper Group. 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 WI Harper Group, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/wi-harper-group (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.