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    IDEA Fund Partners

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United StatesFounded 2007
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    IDEA Fund Partners is a Chapel Hill-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology and business model innovations, with an emphasis on underserved geographies and underrepresented founders across the Southeastern United States.

    They made 3 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $12.3M (across 49 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    40

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    3

    Team

    KA

    Kriss Ascanio Gomez

    Venture Capital Fellow

    DA

    Dewi Aung

    KG

    Krish Gandhi

    MB

    Michael Baiardi

    MJ

    Michael Jaberi

    NN

    Nazreen Nazeer

    TM

    Takunda Mutee

    ZH

    Zach Herak

    LD

    Lister Delgado

    Managing Partner

    JC

    John Cambier

    Partner

    JD

    Joe Darcy

    Principal

    DM

    David Mock

    Venture Fellow

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    51 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    SkillMaker logoSkillMakerSeed$4.5MJun 2026
    Lucid Bots logoLucid BotsSeries B$20MMar 2026
    PPull LogicSeed$3.3MJan 2026
    SSkillmaker AISeed$4.5MJan 2026
    Poppy Flowers logoPoppy FlowersSeries A$2.7MJan 2025
    Lucid Bots logoLucid BotsSeries A$9.1MMay 2024
    Nestment logoNestmentPre-Seed$3.5MFeb 2023
    Plantd logoPlantdSeries A$10MFeb 2023
    Spiffy logoSpiffySeries C—Feb 2023
    Cognota logoCognotaSeries A$5.5MJan 2023
    Nestment logoNestmentPre-Seed$3.5MJan 2023
    Klearly logoKlearlySeed—Jun 2022
    Finmark logoFinmarkSeed$6.5MJan 2022
    Pangea logoPangeaSeed$2MJul 2021
    Pendo logoPendoSeries F$150MJul 2021
    Fenris logoFenrisSeed$2.7MApr 2021
    PPendo.io, IncSeries F$150MJan 2021
    Pangea logoPangeaSeed$2MJan 2021
    Reveal Mobile logoReveal MobileSeries A$2MApr 2020
    Second Nature logoSecond NatureSeries C$16.4MMar 2020
    SSilboSeed$1.1MOct 2019
    FFenris DigitalUnknown$2.7MJan 2019
    LiveSource logoLiveSourceGrowth$7.4MOct 2018
    SSciArt SoftwareSeed$530KJan 2018
    Pendo logoPendoSeries C$25MJul 2017
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    Top Co-Investors

    Battery Ventures5 shared
    Contour Venture Partners5 shared
    Triangle Tweener Fund5 shared
    Y Combinator5 shared
    Techstars4 shared
    General Catalyst4 shared
    Grotech Ventures4 shared
    Front Porch Venture Partners4 shared
    Correlation Ventures3 shared
    Meritech Capital3 shared
    PJC3 shared
    Unpopular Ventures3 shared
    Bull City Venture Partners3 shared
    Service Provider Capital3 shared
    Virginia Venture Partners3 shared
    Salesforce Ventures3 shared
    ff Venture Capital2 shared
    Geodesic Capital2 shared
    General Atlantic2 shared
    B Capital2 shared

    Last updated: 20 October 2026