About Noosphere Ventures
Noosphere Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. It is primarily based out of Mountain View, United States. As of Mar 2022, Noosphere Ventures has invested in 16 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and Food and Agriculture Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Firefly Aerospace Overall, Noosphere Ventures portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 1 acquisition, namely Firefly Aerospace and Circle Medical. A lot of funds co-invest with Noosphere Ventures, with names like AE Industrial Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Noosphere Ventures has team of 15 people including 5 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series B & 1 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
Noosphere Ventures' List of Top Investments
Noosphere Ventures has a portfolio of 16 companies. Their most notable investments include Civic Technologies and Firefly Aerospace.Their portfolio spans across United States, Ukraine and Italy. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Food and Agriculture Tech and 10 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series B and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Noosphere Ventures:Civic provides AI and blockchain based decentralized identity and attribute verification solutions. It provides a platform that allows users to register and validate their personal identity information and lock their identity in order to prevent identity theft and fraudulent activity on their credit reports. Features of the software include watchlist screening and ongoing monitoring, IP based location checks, etc. The application is available for Android and iOS devices in the Google Play Store and Apple Store.
Key facts about Civic Technologies
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $2.75M
- Employee Count: 36 as on Jan 05, 2026
- Investors: Craft Ventures, Cognisa Capital and 29 Others
- Latest Funding Round: ICO, Jun 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of small and medium satellite launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles. It provides for their solutions to both government and commercial customers. You can view their past and upcoming missions on their website.
Key facts about Firefly Aerospace
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Cedar Park (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $589M
- Employee Count: 992 as on Feb 28, 2026
- Investors: Mitsui, Northrop Grumman and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 29, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Public
3. D-Orbit
Operator of orbital transportation, in-orbit servicing, and mission control software. The company provides last-mile satellite delivery and space waste management services. It offers solutions for hosted payload operations and space cloud computing. The company also develops systems and components for traditional and new space markets.
Key facts about D-Orbit
On-demand doctors for a home visit. The company has developed a mobile application that offers on-demand doctors for home visits. Users can book doctors for the home visit through the mobile app. As of June 2017, users in San Francisco area can only avail the services.
Key facts about Circle Medical
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $6.52M
- Employee Count: 352 as on Oct 20, 2025
- Investors: Catapult, Advisors.Fund and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 02, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Provider of space infrastructure for developing, deploying, and operating customer missions. The company delivers solutions to enable customer objectives in space. It offers a modular platform of satellite technology infrastructure. The company removes barriers in space missions, such as long schedules and high costs.
Key facts about Astro Digital
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Littleton (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $37.2M
- Employee Count: 80 as on Feb 28, 2026
- Investors: GVA Capital, Starburst and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 02, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Noosphere Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Noosphere Ventures has invested in 17 companies over the last 12 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Firefly Aerospace.Noosphere Ventures' Investments by Stage
Noosphere Ventures has made 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $100K, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $75M and 1 investment in Unattributed stage with an average round size of $1M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 3 |
Series B | 2 |
Unattributed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Noosphere Ventures' Investments by Sector
Noosphere Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech, Enterprise Applications, Consumer and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 14 Tech companies, 11 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 10 Software companies and at least 5 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 5 |
Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech | 4 |
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
Consumer | 2 |
Environment Tech | 1 |
Others | 7 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Noosphere Ventures' Investments by Geography
Noosphere Ventures has made most investments in United States (4), followed by Italy where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 4 |
Italy | 1 |
Ukraine | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Noosphere Ventures' recent investments
Noosphere Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Noosphere Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Mar 03, 2022 | United States | Series B | 7739 | ||
Dec 17, 2019 | Italy | Seed | 7191 | [+4] | |
Apr 2016 | United States | Series B | 7835 | - | |
Oct 20, 2015 | United States | Seed | 4587 | - | |
Jan 08, 2015 | Ukraine | Unattributed | 5969 | - |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Noosphere Ventures' Portfolio
1 of Noosphere Ventures' portfolio company became public - Firefly Aerospace. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Aug 2025 at marketcap of $6.32BHere are Noosphere Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Aug 07, 2025 | Mar 03, 2022 | Series B | 5538 |
Acquired companies in Noosphere Ventures' Portfolio
1 company from Noosphere Ventures' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Circle Medical in Sep 2020 by WELL Health Technologies Corp for $14M.Here are Noosphere Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 01, 2020 | - | - | 7641 |
Team profile of Noosphere Ventures
Noosphere Ventures has a team of 15 members including 5 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 3 Principals located in United States, Ukraine and 3 more locations. Noosphere Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Noosphere Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | United Kingdom | - | - | |
Partner | Atherton | - | - | |
Partner | United States | - | - | |
Partner | Atherton | - | - | |
Partner | Ukraine | - | - | |
Venture Partner | Netherlands | - | - | |
Principal | Solothurn | - | - | |
Principal | Ukraine | - | - | |
Principal | San Francisco | - | - |
Co-investors of Noosphere Ventures
Over the past 12 years, 40 investors have co-invested in Noosphere Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Noosphere Ventures: Astera, Reuben Brothers and 12 others have invested in rounds before Noosphere Ventures. There is 1 company where Astera has invested before Noosphere Ventures and 1 company where Reuben Brothers has invested before Noosphere Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Noosphere Ventures: 6 investors entered a company along with Noosphere Ventures. These include investors like AE Industrial Partners (1 company).
- Invested after Noosphere Ventures: A total of 20 investors have invested in Noosphere Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Mitsui (1 company), RPM Ventures (1 company) and GiantLeap (1 company).
Recent News related to Noosphere Ventures
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Firefly Aerospace Raises $175m Via Series A Funding Round, Secondary SaleExecutiveBiz•May 05, 2021•Firefly Aerospace, Noosphere Ventures, Astera, Firefly and 5 others
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Space startup Firefly raises $75 million, studies public listingReuters•May 04, 2021•Firefly Aerospace, Firefly, Astera, Cannonball Capital and 7 others
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D-Orbit Secures 15M Euros Of FinancingSatNews•Oct 21, 2020•D-Orbit, European Investment Bank, Seraphim Capital, Noosphere Ventures and 4 others
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Seraphim Capital, Noosphere Ventures invest in D-OrbitSpaceNews•Dec 19, 2019•Seraphim Capital, Noosphere Ventures, D-Orbit
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Firefly investor Noosphere Ventures eyes satellite manufacturing sectorSpaceNews•Jan 08, 2019•Noosphere Ventures
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Thync, maker of brain-zapping gizmo, auctioned assets, cut staffLivemint•May 23, 2016•Thync, Khosla Ventures, Noosphere Ventures
