Early Light Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in the Mid-Atlantic region that invests in capital-efficient B2B software companies founded by non-traditional, underdog founders. The firm manages approximately $37 million across two funds and an angel syndicate, drawing on intelligence-community frameworks for founder evaluation.
Their most common stage is seed (67% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $4.7M (across 17 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
15
Fund Size
$15M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
18 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 IntelliGRC | Seed | $3.5M | Mar 2026 |
 Chargezoom | Series A | $11.5M | Dec 2024 |
 Protiv | Pre-Seed | $2.4M | Apr 2024 |
 Thrivable | Unknown | $6M | Dec 2023 |
 Wove Technologies, Inc. | Seed | $3.9M | Nov 2022 |
 Pendella | Seed | $5.2M | Mar 2022 |
 goCoach | Seed | $3.5M | Dec 2021 |
 UpEquity | Series B | $20M | Oct 2021 |
| PProductWind | Seed | $1.7M | Oct 2021 |
| Thrivable | Unknown | $1.7M | Jun 2021 |
| PProductWind | Seed | $1.7M | Jan 2021 |
 TrackStreet | Seed | $5.1M | Jul 2020 |
 Moonnox | Seed | $2M | — |
| Pendella | Seed | $5.2M | — |
 Collective OS | Unknown | $2.5M | — |
| MMoonnox Raises $2M | Seed | $2M | — |
 Athoz | Seed | — | — |
 Network Perception | Seed | $2.7M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Service Provider Capital4 shared
North Coast Ventures3 shared
Okapi Venture Capital3 shared
Gaingels2 shared
Root Ventures2 shared
Tenacity Ventures2 shared
STEADFAST Capital Ventures2 shared
JumpStart Ventures2 shared
MassMutual2 shared
Aflac Ventures2 shared
American Family Ventures2 shared
MTech Capital2 shared
SixThirty Ventures2 shared
M252 shared
HPA2 shared
Alumni Ventures1 shared
bp ventures1 shared
S3 Ventures1 shared
Launchpad Capital1 shared
SV Angel1 shared
Last updated: 27 September 2026