Investor profile for Flying Fish Partners: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.
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Flying Fish Partners stages, portfolio and investment profile

Seattle early-stage venture firm founded in 2016, investing exclusively in artificial intelligence and machine learning startups. Fund I closed at $37M (2018); Fund II at $70M (May 2022). The team targets pre-seed and seed rounds — roughly $1M pre-seed and $2M seed on average — with about 70% of capital dedicated to Pacific Northwest companies and selective U.S., Canada, and UK deals.

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Stage-based planning range

$250K–$3M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

Source link not recorded Confidence: 25% Verified: Not recorded View methodology

Investment stages

Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed

Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Sector focus

AI & Machine Learning · Enterprise SaaS · Infrastructure & Cloud · Fintech · Healthtech

Geography

Seattle, WA

Founded 2016

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

None yet

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Not recorded

No dated round explicitly links this fund.

Rounds they lead

Pre-Seed Seed

Rounds they invest

Pre-Seed Seed Series A

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

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FAQs about Flying Fish Partners

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

Seattle, Washington. The firm invests across the U.S., Canada, and the UK but still dedicates roughly 70% of Fund II capital to Pacific Northwest AI/ML companies (GeekWire, May 2022).
Pre-seed and seed AI and machine learning companies — both platform-level AI/ML infrastructure and applied B2B solutions in fintech, healthtech, and enterprise software.
About $1M for pre-seed and $2M for seed rounds on average (GeekWire, 2022). Fund II targets roughly 25 investments.
Geoff Harris, Heather Redman, and Frank Chang — operator-investors with backgrounds at Microsoft, Amazon/Audible, and regional angel networks.
$70M, closed May 2022 — nearly double the $37M first fund (GeekWire).
No, but the PNW remains the primary geography. Fund II expanded eastward while keeping a majority of capital for regional AI/ML founders.
Flying Fish is AI/ML-only at pre-seed/seed with operator GPs; Madrona is multi-stage with broader sector coverage and larger follow-on reserves. AI-native Seattle teams often engage both.
Reach out via flyingfish.vc with a clear ML wedge and technical team. The firm emphasizes operator support for getting companies to Series A.
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