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Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Haymaker Ventures LLC
Haymaker Ventures LLC
We invest in companies that invent the future.
venture manager, reported GAV $116M across 1 vehicles
Importance
25
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
57
elevated
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
25
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 646-484-9782adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.HAYMAKER.COM
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 20, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $100Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business email
- team@haymaker.comhaymaker.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 646-484-9782adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
33 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- fintech, media
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
series a 100%
Stage at first entry
series a 100%
Sectors
unknown 88%Other Technology 13%
lead rate 100%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 33
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haymaker Ventures Fund, L.P. | Fund | 2021 form d first sale | Mature | $116M Mar 19, 2024 | 97 | $81.5M | Sep 28, 2021 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
2 current, 0 departed
Samuel Phineas Upham
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Jun 1, 2019
Investments on record
33 edges, 32 companies, 1 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
40 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
QED Investors, LLC 4 shared · strongNyca Management LLC 3 shared · recurringEthos Manager LLC 2 shared · recurringHOF Capital 2 shared · recurringA-Star Partners, LLC 2 shared · recurringHyde Park Venture Partners 2 shared · recurringSapphire Ventures, LLC 2 shared · recurringAlpha Ascent Ventures LLC 2 shared · recurringBling Capital LLC 2 shared · recurringAnsa Capital Management, LLC 2 shared · recurringAlleycorp Advisers, LLC 2 shared · recurring · we led 1Glynn Capital Management, LLC 2 shared · recurring7wire Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeRadical Ventures 1 shared · one timeHuman Capital 1 shared · one timeInnovation Endeavors: Reimagining the technical frontier 1 shared · one timeThree-Sixty Health Venture Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeG Squared Equity LLC 1 shared · one timeNelstone Ventures Advisors 1 shared · one timeCross Creek Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeAIM Master I (bvi) Ltd. 1 shared · one timeInstitutional Venture 1 shared · one timeWestern Technology Investment (wti) 1 shared · one timeArtis Capital Management, L.P. 1 shared · one timeCarbide Ventures 1 shared · one timeLerer Hippeau Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeCoatue Management, L.L.C. 1 shared · one timeTransform Capital 1 shared · one timeSpark Growth Ventures 1 shared · one timeMac Venture Capital 1 shared · one timeFelicis Ventures 1 shared · one timeKickstart Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeMontage Ventures 1 shared · one timeUpper90 1 shared · one timeTTV Capital 1 shared · one timeThompson Hutton, LLC 1 shared · one timeSwift Ventures 1 shared · one timeGVM 1 shared · one timeUnion Square Ventures 1 shared · one time137 Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Mar 30, 2023Haymaker Ventures LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2023Haymaker Ventures Fund, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Haymaker Ventures LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $42,085,472Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactHaymaker Ventures Fund, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $116M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
39 observations from 3 sources