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Rhapsody Venture Partners

VC
Cambridge, MAWebsite

Rhapsody Venture Partners is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA investing in Healthcare, Other, Climate / Energy. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.5M checks and has 39 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$500K – $1.5M

Portfolio

39+ companies

Team

22 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on early-stage companies that are reinventing the healthcare process through innovative technologies.

How Rhapsody Venture Partners invests

Rhapsody Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Cambridge, MA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Healthcare, Other, Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Consumer. It does not invest in Consumer Products.

Rhapsody Venture Partners typically writes checks of $500K–$1.5M per investment.

Rhapsody Venture Partners has backed 39 companies in our records, including Valeritas, AmberSemi, Relativity Networks.

Meet the Team

JW

Jason Whaley

General Partner

CB

Carsten Boers

Managing Partner

CK

Corrie Kavanaugh

Principal

YR

Yuri Rosenblit

Partner

Healthcare Technology
BL

Bernard Lupien

General Partner

RH

Ryan Harne

Professor

vibration and shock damping
HyperDamping materials

Had been working at the frontier of vibration and shock damping for 15 years when he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall that led to permanent hearing loss and nerve damage.

XL

Xin Li

Professor

lithium-metal, solid-state battery

Originating from Professor Xin Li’s lab at Harvard

LJ

Leaf Jiang

Dr.

optoelectronic systems
autonomous transportation

Founded NODAR in 2018 based on his 20+ years of experience building optoelectronic systems at MIT and MIT Lincoln Lab.

MH

Marcus Hultmark

Professor

flow sensors
elastic filament velocimetry

Professor Marcus Hultmark’s research group at Princeton University

RS

Reamonn Soto

US Marine

measurement limitations
aircraft engine performance
Sensatek

Saw firsthand how measurement limitations affect aircraft engine performance and maintenance. He founded Sensatek to commercialize inventions from UCF

C

ChEmpower

N/A

abrasive-free planarization
semiconductor industry

Delivers abrasive-free planarization for the semiconductor industry to solve a key manufacturing bottleneck.

NL

Novel liquid crystals

N/A

integrated photonic devices

Novel liquid crystals that enable the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonic devices unblocking data transfer bottlenecks.

L

Lasso

N/A

foods
fiber production

Creating groundbreaking foods that utilize a new and patented production method to create fibers with better nutrition, clean labels and great taste and chew.

G

GPR

N/A

Ground Positioning Radar™
autonomous transportation

GPR became part of BTG Positioning Systems in 2025. GPR’s ultra-wide band Ground Positioning Radar™ uses reflections of the underground to generate high-definition maps.

LL

Luna Lu

Dr.

IoT sensor
infrastructure quality testing

Luna Lu’s research group at Purdue University

TT

Tendo Technologies

N/A

flow sensors
elastic filament velocimetry

Tendo Technologies spun out of Professor Marcus Hultmark’s research group at Princeton University in 2017.

MB

Manus Bio

N/A

biomanufacturing platform
rare ingredients

Manus Bio was founded in 2011 with the mission of developing an economical and sustainable biomanufacturing platform, particularly for accessing rare and complex natural ingredients.

T

Titan

N/A

haptics
solid-state magnetic suspension

Titan's Linear Magnetic Rams (LMRs) are a breakthrough in haptics. Utilizing solid-state magnetic suspension instead of springs or flexures, Titan delivers broader frequency, strength and reliability of haptic outputs.

N

Netpreme

N/A

memory bottleneck
generative AI

Netpreme is solving the critical memory bottleneck in generative AI infrastructures.

N

NuCicer

N/A

chickpea breeding
machine learning

NuCicer owns the largest chickpea library in the world, and has developed a non-GMO breeding and machine learning platform to quickly breed new varieties.

C

Cnergreen

N/A

ArmorFoam™ technology
CO2 EOR

Cnergreen’s patent-pending ArmorFoam™ technology, developed at the University of Calgary, enables underground foams to remain stable for months at high pressures, temperatures, and salinities.

W

Wavelogix

N/A

IoT sensor
infrastructure quality testing

Wavelogix is on a mission to transform safety and quality assurance for the construction industry. A spinout of Dr. Luna Lu’s research group at Purdue University

Industry Focus

Invests In

Healthcare
Other
Climate / Energy
Food / AgTech
Consumer
SaaS

Does Not Invest In

Consumer Products

Portfolio Companies (39)

Other

VA

Valeritas

HealthTech
AM

AmberSemi

RE

Relativity Networks

VI

VioNano

LI

Light Trace Photonics

SP

SpinDrive

CN

Cnergreen

PH

Ph7

WA

Wavelogix

NU

NuCicer

How to pitch Rhapsody Venture Partners
  • Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Healthcare, Other, Climate / Energy — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.5M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jason Whaley, General Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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