Freeflow is a venture capital firm focused on advancing science to benefit humankind and our planet. Our thesis is that science will unlock the transformations at scale that we need to survive and thrive. Our community of portfolio companies comes from Caltech and JPL where groundbreaking science research and deep tech innovation abound. Visit https://www.freeflow.io/ to learn more. The GPs are David Fleck and Kevin Barrett, two longtime technology, life sciences and healthcare industry veterans who bring more than 50 combined years of technology and healthcare industry experience. Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Chris Farmer (SignalFire) and Chris Douvos (Ahoy) represent the board of advisors and are also investors. To date our syndicate partners include: 8VC, Sequoia, Coatue, Catalio Capital Management, Nexus Venture Partners, OrbiMed, Embark Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, Cultivation Capital, Techstars, Synovia Capital, Heritage, Wilson Hill, and Caltech.
Location: United States, California, Pasadena
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2019
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| - | Mango | mangodx.com | - | - |
| - | Nuanced He... | nuancedhealth.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Continuum ... | continuum-space.com | $6M | United Sta... |
| - | ImYoo | imyoo.health | - | United Sta... |
| - | Entos, Inc | entos.ai | $53M | United Sta... |
| - | Hydrosat | hydrosat.com | $15M | United Sta... |
| - | Toofon | toofon.co | - | United Sta... |
| - | Molecular ... | molecularinstruments.com | - | - |
| - | Gallery (Y... | usegallery.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | H2U Techno... | h2utechnologies.com | $11M | United Sta... |
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| 06.02.2025 | Miist Therapeutics: Breathing New Life into Medicine with $7M Funding | In the bustling world of healthcare innovation, Miist Therapeutics stands out like a lighthouse in a storm. The Alameda, California-based company has just secured $7 million in seed funding, a financial boost that promises to propel its gro... |
| 05.02.2025 | Miist Therapeutics Raises $7M to Develop Inhaled Medicines with Physics-Based Approach | What You Should Know: – Miist Therapeutics, a pioneering company developing inhaled medicines with a focus on rapid drug delivery raises $7M ina seed funding round led by Refactor Capital with participation from 1517 Fund, Freeflow Ventures... |
| 13.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences Revolutionizes Protein Synthesis with AI Technology | Tierra Biosciences, a California-based startup, has secured an $11.4 million Series A funding round to expand its innovative platform for custom protein synthesis. Using AI-guided cell-free technology, Tierra is disrupting traditional prote... |
| 12.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform | Tierra Biosciences—a California-based startup developing AI-guided cell-free technology to enable high-throughput custom protein synthesis—has closed an $11.4m Series A round led by Material Impact. The round, which adds to the firm’s $6 mi... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 21.02.2023 | BREAKING: Wild Microbes raises $3.3m in pre-seed round to generate next generation microbial hosts | Cambridge, Mass-based startup Wild Microbes has raised $3.3 million in a pre-seed round to help unlock the potential of precision fermentation through the use of a gene-editing approach it claims can create superior production hosts. The ro... |
| 18.09.2020 | LA Venture Podcast: David Fleck Of FreeFlow Invests In Caltech Startups | I deeply appreciate David's approach to life and work. On this episode of LA Venture, hear Fleck talk about founding FreeFlow in order to invest in startups coming out of Caltech that have the potential to improve our world. From Your Site ... |
| 26.08.2020 | Can Venture Capital Help Unlock 'Underdeveloped' Caltech? | The California Institute of Technology ranks as one of the top universities in the world when it comes to receiving patents. But more of those inventions should successfully be making it to market, at least according to the investment thesi... |
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