Harrison Metal is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Michael Dearing, based in San Francisco. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies across consumer, enterprise software, and developer tools sectors, applying a disciplined approach rooted in management craft.
They made 1 investment in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $21.2M (across 87 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
58
Fund Size
$68M
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
MD
Michael Dearing
General Partner
HB
Harrison Barnes
Partner
KH
Kevin Harrison
Partner
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
89 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 CoreStory | Series A | $32M | Oct 2025 |
| CoreStory | Series A | $32M | Jan 2025 |
 Crowdbotics | Series B | $40M | Jan 2023 |
| JJeli | Series A | $15M | Sep 2022 |
 X1 | Series B | $25M | Jul 2022 |
 Fable Food | Series A | $15M | Dec 2021 |
| CCorrelated | Seed | $8.3M | Aug 2021 |
 Guild | Series E | $150M | Jun 2021 |
 Outlier | Series B | $30M | Apr 2021 |
| Guild | Series E | $150M | Jan 2021 |
| JJeli | Seed | $4M | Dec 2020 |
 Orbit | Seed | $4M | Dec 2020 |
| Outlier | Series A | $11.7M | Jan 2020 |
| Guild | Series D | $157M | Nov 2019 |
 Squad | Seed | $5M | Aug 2019 |
 Dote | Series B | $12M | Apr 2019 |
 Fleetsmith | Series B | $30M | Apr 2019 |
 Signal Sciences | Series C | $35M | Feb 2019 |
 CircleCI | Series D | $56M | Jan 2019 |
| IIntello (company) | Seed | $2.5M | Jan 2019 |
 Hone | Seed | $50M | Jan 2019 |
| Guild | Series D | $157M | Jan 2019 |
 Crew | Series C | $35M | Dec 2018 |
 Lightstep | Series C | $41M | Dec 2018 |
| Guild | Series B | $40M | Jul 2018 |
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Top Co-Investors
Redpoint Ventures16 shared
Cowboy Ventures13 shared
Baseline Ventures12 shared
Bessemer Venture Partners10 shared
New Enterprise Associates9 shared
First Round Capital8 shared
Index Ventures7 shared
Andreessen Horowitz6 shared
Salesforce Ventures6 shared
Tiger Global Management, LLC6 shared
Sequoia Capital5 shared
Heavybit5 shared
Silicon Valley Bank5 shared
General Catalyst5 shared
Felicis5 shared
Novel TMT Ventures5 shared
Threshold Ventures5 shared
Menlo Ventures5 shared
Gaingels5 shared
GV4 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026