# Delphi Ventures

> Delphi Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 182 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 182
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $300M
- Last fund: Jun 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/delphi-ventures
- Website: http://www.delphiventures.com

Delphi Ventures is a venture capital firm that has focused on investing in biotechnology and medical devices for over two decades. With more than $1.1 billion in committed capital, Delphi Ventures has funded over 170 companies. More than 110 of our portfolio companies have either completed an initial public offering or have been acquired by aleading healthcare corporation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$11M |
| Series B | $9.3M–$70M |
| Series C | $6M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 53 | 29% |
| Biotechnology | 34 | 19% |
| Medical Device | 28 | 15% |
| Blockchain | 24 | 13% |
| Medical | 23 | 13% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 15% |
| Series B | 27 | 15% |
| Series C | 27 | 15% |
| Series D | 20 | 11% |
| Series A | 18 | 10% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 82 | 45% |
| Canada | 5 | 3% |
| Singapore | 2 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Liberia | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deepika R Pakianathan | General Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepa-r-pakianathan |
| Doug Roeder | General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-roeder |
| James Bochnowski | Founder & Managing Member | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-j-bochnowski |
| Matthew T. Potter | CFO\| Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-t-potter |
| David L. Douglass | General Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-l-douglass |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bullpen | Bullpen is completely non-custodial and protected by Turnkey's enterprise-level private key management infrastructure. Users can benefit from military-grade protection while maintaining total control over their assets thanks to an air-gapped architecture. |  | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Distinct Possibility Studios | Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans. | $30.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Upexi | Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve. | $100M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 21, 2025 |  |
| Arrow Markets | Arrow Markets is a decentralized financial market options protocol intended to democratize the returns to option market makers. The Arrow protocol democratizes the entire options trading pipeline, from market making to brokering to clearing and settlement. They provide cash-settled, used to settle all contingent claims, and the code law replacescentralized settlement implemented through a network of dacs. | $4M | Series A | Mar 30, 2024 |  |
| MyShell | MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps. | $11M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Chainway Labs | Chainway Labs is a blockchain infrastructure company focused on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and zero-knowledge technology. They are also Builders of Citrea, Bitcoin's First ZK Rollup. The last few decades of innovation were defined by the internet. The firm believe Bitcoin and blockchains will shape the coming decades. | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Pixelmon | Pixelmon is a decentralized web3 gaming IP company that develops online video games. It also offers a virtual metaverse where one can trade, co-operate with friends, battle, and train to play the game. | $8M | Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Nous Research | Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $20M | Seed | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| HYTOPIA | HYTOPIA is a metaverse platform that integrates social functions and offers developers a Minecraft-inspired game creation toolkit with flexible monetization. | $3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Anoma | A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $25M | Series C | May 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 182 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Delphi Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-digital) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [DeFiance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defiance-capital-96c1) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Alloy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [DeNovo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denovo-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Versant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/versant-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Delphi Ventures invest in?

Delphi Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 182 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Delphi Ventures's check size?

Delphi Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$11M at Seed, $9.3M–$70M at Series B and $6M–$60M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Delphi Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Delphi Ventures?

Public channels for Delphi Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Delphi Ventures?

The team at Delphi Ventures includes Deepika R Pakianathan (General Partner), Doug Roeder (General Partner) and James Bochnowski (Founder & Managing Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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