About Newark Venture Partners
Newark Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Newark, United States. As of Jul 2026, Newark Venture Partners is an active investor, having invested in 24 companies, with 3 new investments 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 High Tech and HealthTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Handspring Overall, Newark Venture Partners portfolio has seen 1 acquisition, namely OmniX labs. A lot of funds co-invest with Newark Venture Partners, with names like NextView Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Newark Venture Partners has team of 7 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio Acquisitions
Deals in last 12 months
Newark Venture Partners' List of Top Investments
Newark Venture Partners has a portfolio of 24 companies. Their most notable investments are in Barkly Pets and Toothio.Their portfolio spans across United States, India and United Kingdom. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, HealthTech and 13 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Newark Venture Partners:1. Theo AI
AI powered dispute resolution platform. It provides predictive insights for decision-making. The platform leverages proprietary data model and algorithm to predict the dispute outcome. It enables users to share the reports with colleagues and run new predictions with additional case information.
Key facts about Theo AI
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $6.9M
- Employee Count: 29 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Collide, Ripple Ventures and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 10, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of healthcare solutions including primary care, mental health, and more. The company offers direct primary care memberships with virtual visits and prescriptions. It also provides GLP-1 programs, premium lab panels, and ACA compliance solutions. Health reimbursement arrangements and occupational health services are available. Ancillary benefits include vision and dental coverage.
Key facts about Vitable Health
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Woodlyn (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $25M
- Employee Count: 105 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: First Round Capital, Citi and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 22, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Handspring
Provider of mental health treatment and lifelong skill services. The platform offers video therapy sessions for treating children's and young adult mental health conditions such as anxiety & worries, depression & mood, behavioral difficulties, and more.
Key facts about Handspring
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $37.2M
- Employee Count: 81 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: RPS Ventures, Cobalt Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 07, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Upscale
The platform integrates with AI and offers solutions such as outbound sales, inbound sales, account-based sales, onboarding and engagement, and remote sales which helps members in connecting and building relationships with customers. It supports integrations with Salesforce, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc.
Key facts about Upscale
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2024
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $5.75M
- Employee Count: 14 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Eniac Ventures, Java Capital and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, May 12, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of multimodal egocentric data capture, annotation, and 3D pose estimation. The company offers synchronized multimodal capture, motion capture, and real-time hand tracking. It provides stereo depth, dense depth maps, action labels, tactile glove and sensing, and segmentation for objects and scenes. The company helps businesses scale profits and efficiency with artificial intelligence.
Key facts about Human Archive
- Founded Year: 2026
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8.7M
- Employee Count: 19 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Wing Venture Capital, Y Combinator and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, May 26, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Newark Venture Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Newark Venture Partners has invested in 24 companies over the last 10 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 5 investments, while as of Jul 2026, it has made 3 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Human Archive and most recent follow-on round was in Handspring.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2025 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
2024 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Newark Venture Partners' Investments by Stage
Newark Venture Partners has made 16 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.88M and 4 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $11.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 16 |
Series A | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Newark Venture Partners' Investments by Sector
Newark Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Vertical SaaS, Enterprise Infrastructure and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 21 Tech companies, 18 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 15 Software companies and at least 8 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 13 |
Consumer | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 3 |
FinTech | 3 |
Others | 19 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Newark Venture Partners' Investments by Geography
Newark Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (18), followed by India where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 18 |
India | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Newark Venture Partners' recent investments
Newark Venture Partners has made 3 investments in 2026 so far. Handspring and Human Archive are the latest among them.Here are the most recent investments by Newark Venture Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jul 07, 2026 | United States | Series B | 4664 | [+5] | |
May 26, 2026 | United States | Series A | 9867 | [+1] | |
Jan 14, 2026 | United States | Seed | 7901 | ||
Nov 25, 2025 | United States | Seed | 5341 | ||
Jun 27, 2025 | United States | Series A | 3845 | [+6] |
Acquired companies in Newark Venture Partners' Portfolio
1 company from Newark Venture Partners' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was OmniX labs in Nov 2021 by EverWash for $*****.Here are Newark Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 | Seed | 7210 |
Team profile of Newark Venture Partners
Newark Venture Partners has a team of 7 members including 3 Partners and 1 Principal located in United States. Newark Venture Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Newark Venture Partners:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Montclair | - | ||
Partner | Wyckoff | - | - | |
Partner | Winter Park | - | ||
Principal | Boston | - | - |
Co-investors of Newark Venture Partners
Over the past 10 years, 108 investors have co-invested in Newark Venture Partners's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Newark Venture Partners: Y Combinator, First Round Capital and 23 others have invested in rounds before Newark Venture Partners. There are 2 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Newark Venture Partners and 1 company where First Round Capital has invested before Newark Venture Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Newark Venture Partners: 43 investors entered a company along with Newark Venture Partners. These include investors like NextView Ventures (2 companies).
- Invested after Newark Venture Partners: A total of 40 investors have invested in Newark Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Collide (1 company), Four Acres (1 company) and David Fox (1 company).
Recent News related to Newark Venture Partners
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Human Archive lands $8.2M for robot training data amid India privacy probeCryptopolitan•May 27, 2026•Human Archive, Newark Venture Partners, Meta, Google and 5 others
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FinTech, Advance, Raises $8.55M to Turn Insurance Payments into RevenuePR Newswire•Feb 07, 2026•Newark Venture Partners, Vesey Ventures, Crystal Venture Partners, Mensch Capital Partners and 3 others
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Parambil Lands $6M in Seed FundingMassinvestor•Jan 14, 2026•Newark Venture Partners, Parambil, Bling Capital
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Compyl Closes $12 Million in Series A FundingYahoo•Jun 04, 2025•Newark Venture Partners, Venture Guides, Compyl, Zelkova Ventures and 4 others
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AI-powered Upscale Studio gets $5.5M to create & run streaming TV ads.
intelligence360•May 22, 2025•Upscale, Newark Venture Partners, M12, Eniac Ventures and 2 others
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Upscale AI Debuts with $5.5M to Transform Streaming TV AdvertisingSilicon Valley Journals•May 13, 2025•Newark Venture Partners, Upscale, Super Angel, M12 and 2 others
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Theo Ai Announces $2.2M Pre-Seed Funding to Bring Predictive Analytics to the Legal Industryintelligence360•Dec 03, 2024•Theo AI, Nextview, Newark Venture Partners, Ripple Ventures and 4 others
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Avina Raises $3.2M in Seed FundingFinSMEs•Oct 31, 2024•Avina Clean Hydrogen, Norwest Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Y Combinator and 2 others
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Vitable Secures $16M To Provide Primary Care to Small EmployersMedCity News•Jul 23, 2024•Vitable, Cherryrock Capital, Newark Venture Partners, Citi and 6 others
