# Compound

> Compound is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 218 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 218
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Oct 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compound-vc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/compoundvc
- Website: https://compound.vc/

Compound is a venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology built by outliers. They have partnered with elite operators that understand the intricacies of many different industries and various components of businesses, that help them navigate the complex systems in which each startup lives by removing roadblocks and compoundinggrowth.Compound is based in New York City.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Compound. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Compound. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/metamorphic-ventures-llc?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7.2M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 35 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 8% |
| SaaS | 16 | 7% |
| Blockchain | 16 | 7% |

199 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 85 | 39% |
| Series A | 39 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 23 | 11% |
| Series B | 17 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 121 | 56% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 3% |
| Canada | 3 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Cayman Islands | 2 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Zigmond | Board Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-zigmond |
| David Hirsch | Managing Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-hirsch |
| Josh Nussbaum | EIR | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-nussbaum |
| Maddy Mestman | Contracted | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maddy-mestman |
| Michael Dempsey | General Partner; Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-dempsey |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orbital Industries | From sustainable fuels, to carbon capture, to harmful chemical removal from the environment, Orbital Materials develops and commercialises technologies that keep earth our home forever. At the core of our company is a foundation model for atoms, built by world experts in generative AI and large language models. | $49.7M | Series B | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Cycles | Cycles functions as a decentralized clearinghouse and reduces outstanding short-term obligations before settlement. | $6.4M | Seed | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Polyphron | Polyphron builds an autonomous tissue foundry platform for scalable, reproducible human tissue manufacturing. The company uses induced pluripotent stem cells, AI models, and automation to engineer graftable human tissues across cortical, cardiac, and other tissue contexts. Its platform integrates developmental single-cell atlases, high-throughput3D tissue experiments, and active learning to optimize tissue structure and polarity. Polyphron develops biomanufacturing systems for difficult-to-produce proteins, high-fidelity safety and efficacy screening tissues, and immune-compatible iPSC-derived grafts intended to restore tissue function and support regenerative medicine applications. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| The Embryo Corporation | The Embryo Corporation is a biotech company that develops new organisms and biological traits using AI-driven genetic engineering. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| The General Intelligence Company | The General Intelligence Company is an AI based It firm offering ai agents for running autonomous businesses. | $8.7M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| The Clearing Company | The Clearing Company is an on-chain prediction market that aims to build an on-chain, permissionless prediction market that is compliant with regulatory standards and friendly to retail users. | $15M | Seed | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Pear Protocol | Pear Protocol is an innovative trading dApp built on Arbitrum. Pear allows a user to trade long-short 'pair-trades' e.g. Long $BTC / short $BNB with leverage in a seamless, capital efficient, and composable way. Users will have a unique approach to both a) trade composability and b) liquidity. | $4.1M | Seed | Jul 28, 2025 |  |
| Pheiron | Pheiron provides a scalable, secure, and interoperable platform for deep data-driven health management. The company focuses on improving the probability of success in drug development by leveraging causal insights on targets and populations. Pheiron uses AI to map multimodal data to diseases, aiming to enhance the understanding of diseases andinform decision-making in drug development. The platform also supports large-scale exome sequence analysis to identify sex- and age-specific factors in health management. | $4.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 20, 2025 |  |
| General Intelligence Company of New York | General Intelligence Company of New York is an artificial intelligence company taking advantage of upcoming AI developments. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Manifest | Manifest is the simplest way for investors worldwide to access institutional-grade U.S. real estate through onchain ownership. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2025 |  |

10 of 218 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Morado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morado-ventures-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lemnos VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemnos-labs) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Compound invest in?

Compound invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 218 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 Compound's check size?

Compound typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.2M at Seed and $1.4M–$24M 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 Compound participates in.

### How do I contact Compound?

Public channels for Compound include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Compound?

The team at Compound includes Dan Zigmond (Board Partner), David Hirsch (Managing Partner) and Josh Nussbaum (EIR), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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