Oval Park Capital
ovalpark.com Direct investor
Oval Park Capital is a venture capital firm based in Raleigh, NC, that invests in seed-stage hardtech startups. It focuses on physical and industrial technologies with defensible IP in mission-critical industries, primarily in overlooked geographic markets in the US.
Oval Park Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Raleigh, United States, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series B, in advanced Manufacturing, advanced Materials, AI Infrastructure & Compute and built Environment. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Seed-stage, hardtech startups commercializing physical and industrial technologies with defensible IP, tackling complex, high-value challenges in mission-critical industries.”
— Oval Park Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Raleigh, United States
- Invests in
- Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Other Overlooked Clusters
- Sectors
- Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, AI Infrastructure & Compute, Built Environment, Climate & Environment, Defense & National Security, Energy & Power, Food & Agriculture
- Founded
- 2018
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Oval Park Capital publishes it
- Justin Wright-Eakes Managing Partner
- Alex Stephenson Partner
- Evan Shear Senior Associate
- Pierce Gibson Senior Associate
- Jack Perkins Undergraduate Fellow
- Jeff Clark Operating Partner
- John Perkins Operating Partner
- Margaret Gramann Operating Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on ovalpark.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 17 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Blackhorn Ventures 1 shared company: lemurianlabs.com
- Futureland Ventures 1 shared company: lemurianlabs.com
- Good Growth Capital Management, LLC 1 shared company: lemurianlabs.com
- Origin Ventures 1 shared company: lemurianlabs.com
- BIP Ventures 1 shared company: fortifydata.com
- Open Opportunity Management, LLC 1 shared company: fortifydata.com
- Tech Square Ventures 1 shared company: fortifydata.com
- Dellin Investments 1 shared company: swirvisionsystems.com
- Keiretsu Forum 1 shared company: swirvisionsystems.com
- Cleo Capital Management Company, LLC 1 shared company: talli.me
and 7 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Oval Park Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ovalpark.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.ovalpark.com/focusinvests_in_geographies
- https://www.ovalpark.com/aboutstage_max, founded, people
- https://www.ovalpark.com/portfolioportfolio_count
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Record 2463 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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