About XLIX Ventures
XLIX Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Boston, United States. It primarily invests in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and Life Sciences. Overall, XLIX Ventures portfolio has seen 1 unicorn, 1 IPO and 1 acquisition, namely EverQuote, Epirus and 3Play Media. XLIX Ventures has team of 2 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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XLIX Ventures' List of All Investments
XLIX Ventures has a portfolio of 4 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments include EverQuote and Epirus.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Life Sciences and 8 other sectors. Here is the list of all investments by XLIX Ventures:1. EverQuote
EverQuote provides an online comparison platform for automotive & other insurances. It offers quotes for health insurance, home insurance, life insurance, auto insurance, and more. Users can build their profiles, provide their car information, compare insurance providers, and connect with licensed agents.
Key facts about EverQuote
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Cambridge (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $500M - $1B as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $37.6M
- Employee Count: 431 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Savano Capital Partners, T Capital Partners and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 22, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Epirus
Developer of high-power microwave systems for electronic warfare and air defense. The company combines solid-state, long-pulse high-power microwave systems with artificial intelligence and advanced electronics. It offers systems for layered short-range air defense and maneuver short-range defense. The company also provides testing and validation for electronic effects on long-range targets. It develops capabilities to defend high-value assets and provides compact electronic warfare. The company delivers air domain awareness using perception capabilities.
Key facts about Epirus
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Los Angeles (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $595M
- Employee Count: 246 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: T. Rowe Price, Greenspring Associates and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Oct 09, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. 3Play Media
3Play Media is a provider of captioning, transcription, and translation solutions to enterprises. The company simplifies the process of video translations by providing an account system, flexible APIs, and integration with a multitude of video players, platforms, and lecture capture systems. It provides translation services by first producing a draft via automatic speech recognition and editing by professional transcriptionists via their software and then QA processing. Clientele includes IRS, P&G, Yale University, Penn State University, Autodesk, MIT, Colorado State University, The Economist etc.
Key facts about 3Play Media
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: United States
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $962K
- Employee Count: 597 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: XLIX Ventures, MooDoos and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 20, 2011, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Tiba Biotech
Provider of fully synthetic RNA vaccine drug delivery technology. It has developed proprietary molecular systems for nucleic acid delivery and offers fully synthetic thermostable RNA vaccine technology, that delivers the nucleic acid into the patient’s cells upon vaccination. It encodes one or more proteins, to assemble antigens and drive immunity against various diseases.
Key facts about Tiba Biotech
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 19 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Skyviews Life Science, XLIX Ventures and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Aug 29, 2025, $*****
Unicorns in XLIX Ventures' Portfolio
XLIX Ventures has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Epirus. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Epirus which became a unicorn in 2022, 4 years before XLIX Ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in XLIX Ventures' portfolio:
Filter this listTracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
69 | Developer of high-power microwave systems for electronic warfare and air defense | 2017 | Los Angeles | Series D | sdsizop |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in XLIX Ventures' Portfolio
1 of XLIX Ventures' portfolio company became public - EverQuote. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Jun 2018 at marketcap of $446MHere are XLIX Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2018 | - | - | 2755 |
Acquired companies in XLIX Ventures' Portfolio
1 company from XLIX Ventures' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was 3Play Media in May 2019 by Riverside Partners for $*****.Here are XLIX Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | - | - | 5206 |
