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First Bight Ventures

VC
Houston, TXWebsite

First Bight Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Houston, TX investing in Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $250K–$3.5M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $3.5M

AUM

$9M

Portfolio

9+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Funds early-stage life science companies, with a preference for synthetic biology and genomics innovation.

How First Bight Ventures invests

First Bight Ventures is a vc firm based in Houston, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare.

First Bight Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$3.5M per investment, backed by approximately $9M in assets under management.

First Bight Ventures has backed 9 companies in our records, including Rubiomics, BioFabricate, Persephone.

Meet the Team

VB

Veronica Breckenridge

Founder

DM

Dr. Mary Zhang

Partner

Genomics
Synthetic Biology
Biotech

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Healthcare

Portfolio Companies (9)

Other

RU

Rubiomics

Genomics
BI

BioFabricate

Synthetic Biology
PE

Persephone

https://persephone.bio/pages/press

VI

Visolis

https://www.visolisbio.com/

AL

Algenesis

https://www.algenesislabs.com/press

CA

Capra Biosciences

https://www.caprabiosciences.com/news/

IN

Industrial Microbes

https://www.imicrobes.com/press

R2

R2DIO

https://r2dio.com/

VI

VIA Biofuels

https://viabiofuels.com/

How to pitch First Bight Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $3.5M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Veronica Breckenridge, Founder.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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