About Harrison Metal
Harrison Metal is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Oct 2025, Harrison Metal is an active investor, having invested in 107 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of CoreStory Overall, Harrison Metal portfolio has seen 3 unicorns, 1 IPO and 53 acquisitions including key companies like PagerDuty, MasterClass and Heroku. A lot of funds co-invest with Harrison Metal, with names like Baseline Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Harrison Metal has team of 3 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 2 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Unicorns
Harrison Metal's List of Top Investments
Harrison Metal has a portfolio of 107 companies, including 3 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Bloc and Facet.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada and Ireland. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 20 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Harrison Metal:
1. PagerDuty
Cloud based platform offering incident management software. It provides end-to-end incident orchestration for issue resolution. It provides automation to accelerate critical work across enterprises. The platform includes features such as status pages, customer service operations bridging, and AIOps for alert triage. It offers integration and customization options through a developer platform.
Key facts about PagerDuty
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $174M
- Employee Count: 1,380 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: HTIF, ADS Ventures and 19 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Sep 06, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. MasterClass
MasterClass provides online courses delivered by celebrity experts. The company offers courses in writing, acting, singing, photography, and more. It offers video content, a class workbook, interactive assignments, and community activities. It has a subscription-based revenue model and it is accessible through mobile and the web. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.
Key facts about MasterClass
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series F
- Total Funding till date: $461M
- Employee Count: 810 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Harrison Metal, Fidelity Investments and 61 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, May 13, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Lumosity
Lumosity provides web and app-based games to develop core cognitive abilities. Works closely with academics and its technology fuels studies being conducted by researchers at Harvard, Stanford, UCSF etc. Also provides a program for K-12 schools called the Lumosity Education Access Program (LEAP), which seeks to study the effects of cognitive training on students performance. Was founded in 2005 but was launched in 2007. Has 70M+ active users.
Key facts about Lumosity
- Founded Year: 2005
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $67.4M
- Employee Count: 71 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Harrison Metal, Founders Circle Capital and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Angel, Jun 11, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Heroku
Saas based provider of integrated platform as a service solutions. It allows developers to deploy, scale, and manage applications. The platform offers a runtime environment to run and execute apps in real time. Its metrics feature provides insights into the application characteristics. It supports different programming language such as PHP, java, ruby, and more.
Key facts about Heroku
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $17M
- Employee Count: 140 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Harrison Metal, Wavelaunch and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 13, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Primary
Internet first brand offering multi-category kids apparel. The product catalog includes tees, tanks, swimwear, leggings, bedding, loungewear, blankets, footies, sweatshirts, sleep sacks, rash guards, baby gits, etc.
Key facts about Primary
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $80M
- Employee Count: 456 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, Harrison Metal and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jul 26, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Harrison Metal's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Harrison Metal has invested in 107 companies over the last 19 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in CoreStory and most recent follow-on round was in Crowdbotics.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2022 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
2020 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
2019 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
2018 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
2017 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
Harrison Metal's Investments by Stage
Harrison Metal has made 59 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.39M, 28 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $11.2M, 6 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $15.8M and 2 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $43.8M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 59 |
Series A | 28 |
Series B | 6 |
Series C | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Harrison Metal's Investments by Sector
Harrison Metal has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure, Retail and Media & Entertainment. Notably, it has invested in 101 Tech companies, 72 Software companies, 69 Enterprise (B2B) companies and at least 44 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 53 |
Consumer | 24 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 21 |
Retail | 18 |
Media & Entertainment | 11 |
Others | 69 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Harrison Metal's Investments by Geography
Harrison Metal has made most investments in United States (93), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 93 |
Canada | 1 |
Ireland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Harrison Metal's recent investments
Harrison Metal has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Harrison Metal:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 28, 2025 | United States | Series A | 6842 | ||
Feb 13, 2024 | United States | Series A | 1323 | [+2] | |
Jan 25, 2023 | United States | Series B | 1918 | ||
Nov 30, 2022 | United States | Series A | 3467 | [+12] | |
Sep 28, 2022 | United States | Series A | 6131 | [+2] |
Unicorns in Harrison Metal's Portfolio
Harrison Metal has 3 unicorns in its portfolio - MasterClass, CircleCI and Guild. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is MasterClass. It became a unicorn in 2021, 8 years after Harrison Metal first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Harrison Metal's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
76 | Provider of online courses delivered by celebrity experts | 2012 | San Francisco | Series F | vzg{efq | ||
69 | Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery | 2011 | San Francisco | Series F | smyavjt | ||
66 | Provider of corporate training solutions | 2015 | Denver | Series F | zzydfmu |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Harrison Metal's Portfolio
1 of Harrison Metal's portfolio company became public - PagerDuty. It got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Apr 2019 at marketcap of $218MHere are Harrison Metal's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 12, 2019 | Feb 21, 2013 | Series A | 1086 |
Acquired companies in Harrison Metal's Portfolio
53 companies from Harrison Metal's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Good Eggs in Aug 2024 by GrubMarket for $*****.Here are Harrison Metal's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 06, 2024 | Sep 26, 2013 | Series A | 9352 | |
Apr 12, 2024 | Dec 02, 2020 | Seed | 1816 | |
Feb 07, 2024 | Jan 09, 2020 | Series A | 4567 | |
Nov 02, 2023 | Dec 07, 2020 | Seed | 5142 | |
Jun 22, 2023 | Jul 18, 2022 | Series B | 3037 |
Team profile of Harrison Metal
Harrison Metal has a team of 3 members including 3 Partners located in United States. Harrison Metal's team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of all team members in Harrison Metal:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | San Francisco | |||
Partner | San Jose | - | ||
Partner | Milwaukee | - |
Co-investors of Harrison Metal
Over the past 19 years, 453 investors have co-invested in Harrison Metal's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Harrison Metal: Y Combinator, Baseline Ventures and 48 others have invested in rounds before Harrison Metal. There are 4 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Harrison Metal and 2 companies where Baseline Ventures has invested before Harrison Metal.
- Top Co-investors of Harrison Metal: 192 investors entered a company along with Harrison Metal. These include investors like Baseline Ventures (12 companies).
- Invested after Harrison Metal: A total of 211 investors have invested in Harrison Metal's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include SVB (4 companies), Emerson Collective (4 companies) and Bessemer Venture Partners (3 companies).
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