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Divergent Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2020 by Katie Shea and Lucy Wang. The firm backs deeply technical and scientific founders modernizing essential systems across physical, digital, and biological domains, combining capital with go-to-market expertise and structured fellowships.
Deal activity decreased year-over-year (1 deals in the last 12 months vs 2 prior). Their most common stage is seed (52% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $9.6M (across 24 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
23
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
KS
Katie Shea
Founder & Partner
LW
Lucy Wang
Founder and Partner
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
27 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EEnera | Pre-Seed | $2M | Jun 2026 |
 Baton | Series A | $10M | Jan 2025 |
 Coherence Neuro | Seed | $10M | Jan 2025 |
 Tiimo | Seed | $1.6M | Aug 2024 |
 Ceragen | Seed | $2M | Jul 2024 |
| MMotif Neurotech | Unknown | $18.8M | Jan 2024 |
 Bedrock Energy | Seed | $8.5M | Oct 2023 |
 LinusBio | Series A | $8M | May 2023 |
| LinusBio | Unknown | $16M | Jan 2023 |
| Tiimo | Seed | — | Sep 2022 |
| TThe Shellworks | Seed | — | May 2022 |
 Experiment | Unknown | $1M | Apr 2022 |
| WWicket | Unknown | $2.8M | Jul 2018 |
| AAppuri | Seed | $2M | Mar 2017 |
 socedo | Seed | $1M | Jan 2016 |
| CCloudCoreo | Seed | $2.9M | Jan 2016 |
 Iron.io | Series A | $8M | Sep 2015 |
 Shippable | Series A | $8M | Nov 2014 |
| SSpaceCurve | Seed | $1.1M | Jan 2010 |
 THEA | Series B | $100M | — |
 Paterna Biosciences | Seed | $6M | — |
 Raincoat | Seed | $4.5M | — |
 Hoop | Seed | $5M | — |
 Hoop | Seed | $5M | — |
| WWicket | Unknown | $2.8M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Madrona Venture Group4 shared
Obvious Ventures2 shared
Burst Capital2 shared
75 & Sunny2 shared
Bloomberg Beta2 shared
FJ Labs2 shared
Goodwater Capital2 shared
Awesome People Ventures2 shared
Crowberry Capital2 shared
Baseline Ventures2 shared
Techstars2 shared
Index Ventures2 shared
Origin Ventures2 shared
Lakehouse2 shared
Vulcan Capital2 shared
WestRiver Group2 shared
UC Investments2 shared
Reed Elsevier Ventures2 shared
Zeon Ventures1 shared
Menlo Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 14 September 2026