# FYRFLY Venture Partners

> FYRFLY Venture Partners is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Software and SaaS. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Fund size: $2M
- Last fund: Feb 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fyrfly-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/fyrflyvc
- Website: http://www.fyrfly.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fyrflyvc/

Fyrfly Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence. The firm prefers to invest in startups and early-stage companies in the information technology sector.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$9M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 33% |
| SaaS | 9 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 14% |
| Health Care | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 42% |
| Series A | 7 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 7 | 16% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julie Maples | General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-allegro |
| Philipp Stauffer | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-stauffer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PolyGone Systems, Inc | PolyGone Systems is a cleantech company that removes microplastic pollutants from waterways. PolyGone Systems was founded in 2021. | $4M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Poetiq | Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that builds self-improving reasoning agents on top of existing large language models. The system discovers task-specific reasoning strategies, optimizes multi-step knowledge extraction, and synthesizes fragmented information into reliable answers. It focuses on recursive self-improvement, allowing agents to learnfrom solved tasks to perform better on new ones. Poetiq applies this approach to benchmarks like ARC-AGI and real-world workflows, improving accuracy and cost across models from multiple providers. The company works with partners to address complex AI reasoning and retrieval challenges in practical applications. | $45.8M | Seed | Jan 30, 2026 |  |
| PolyGone Systems, Inc | PolyGone Systems is a cleantech company that removes microplastic pollutants from waterways. PolyGone Systems was founded in 2021. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Kadoa | Kadoa is an AI-powered no-code platform that allows anyone to build complex data workflows effortlessly. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| rready | Engage employees by unleashing their ambition and creativity. Let them take responsibility for their idea and create the next big thing. rready provides Saas solutions for innovation management to create lasting cultural change, because this is what you need to start and grow your own intrapreneurial movement. | $4M | Series A | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Portal AI | B2B SaaS |  | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Nova | Nova the firm is unveiling two new products, BrandGuard and BrandGPT, to assist brands in policing AI-generated content. The company is now developing a suite of generative AI tools intended to defend brand integrity. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Amplo | Amplo is a smart maintenance platform. That provides automated diagnostic services, IoT asset management, an IoT machine expert system, and root cause analysis solutions. The company's customers inquiries are addressed through email and online applications. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| DSCVR | DSCVR (pronounced “Discover”) is a boundary breaking Web3 social network that rewards users for great content, enables crypto-native integrations and is built on-chain. DSCVR is building a product that will solve the current usability issues with crypto products and onboard the masses into Web3. The platform is already one the most active Web3social products with adoption by crypto and NFT communities. DSCVR has become a launchpad for building tokenized communities where users can set up governance rules, define roles, reward users with airdrops, and gate based on NFT ownership. DSCVR enables peer-to-peer transaction of NFTs and airdrops directly to user accounts within the social network without external wallets and addresses. | $9M | Seed | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Altoida | Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt. | $14M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does FYRFLY Venture Partners invest in?

FYRFLY Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 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 FYRFLY Venture Partners's check size?

FYRFLY Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9M at Seed and $3.4M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FYRFLY Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact FYRFLY Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at FYRFLY Venture Partners?

The team at FYRFLY Venture Partners includes Julie Maples (General Partner) and Philipp Stauffer (Co-Founder and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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