Data Report · Fund Formation by State · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
Venture Fund Formation in North Carolina: 68 Funds Filed (Sep 2025 to Aug 2026)
68 venture funds filed a Form D from a North Carolina address in the twelve months to August 2026, 0.74% of every US venture fund filing in that window. Every figure here is computed from the filings themselves.
Written by Michael Kaufman · Reviewed against our editorial standards · Updated
Quick Answer
Between September 2025 and August 2026, 68 venture capital funds filed a first Form D from a North Carolina address, out of 178 pooled-fund filings from the state and 9,169 venture filings nationwide. That is 0.74% of US venture fund formation and ranks North Carolina 10th among the states. The 61 filings that named a dollar target are seeking $385M combined, with a median target of $672K and a largest single target of $125M; 7 filings declared an indefinite or undisclosed target and are excluded from both figures. 65 of the filings (95.6%) came from issuers with no earlier filing anywhere in the warehouse. Busiest month: Jul 2026 with 12 filings; quietest: Dec 2025 with 2. Figures as of September 15, 2026.
Key Takeaways
- 1.North Carolina recorded 68 venture fund filings in the window, 10th nationally and 0.74% of the 9,169 filed across the country.
- 2.Venture funds were 38.2% of all 178 pooled-fund filings from North Carolina, against 42.6% nationally.
- 3.The 61 filings naming a target are seeking $385M combined; the median is $672K and 7 filings named no amount at all.
- 4.65 filings (95.6%) came from first-time vehicles, and 70.6% of the state's venture filings carry series-vehicle names, against 65.6% nationally.
- 5.Chapel Hill accounts for 52.9% of the state's venture filings (36 of 68).
68
venture fund filings from North Carolina addresses
10th nationally, 0.74% of the 9,169 filed nationwide
$385M
combined disclosed target offering
across the 61 of 68 filings that named a dollar target
$672K
median disclosed target
largest single target $125M
65
first-time fund vehicles
95.6% of the state's venture filings came from an issuer with no earlier filing on record
Month by Month: Venture Fund Filings from North Carolina
Filings are counted by SEC filing date. Peak month Jul 2026 at 12, low month Dec 2025 at 2.
- Sep 20253 venture
- Oct 20255 venture
- Nov 20256 venture
- Dec 20252 venture
- Jan 20266 venture
- Feb 20265 venture
- Mar 20263 venture
- Apr 20266 venture
- May 202611 venture
- Jun 20267 venture
- Jul 202612 venture
- Aug 20262 venture
The data does not explain why any month moved the way it did. Form D records that a filing happened, its target and its address. A month-to-month change in these counts is a change in filing behaviour, and nothing in this dataset attributes it to a cause.
The Largest Venture Targets Filed from North Carolina
Ranked by disclosed target offering, across the whole window. “Sold at filing” is the amount reported sold as of the Form D date: a fund showing $0 has not reported sales yet, it has not failed to raise.
| # | Fund | Target | Sold at filing | City | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Healthcare Innovations Venture Fund, LLC | $125M | $25M | Durham | Jul 20, 2026 |
| 2 | CH Ventures III (Parallel), L.P. | $50M | $0 | Chapel Hill | Mar 30, 2026 |
| 3 | ANIMAL CAPITAL FUND III LP | $50M | $14.1M | Raleigh | Jul 21, 2026 |
| 4 | BL.vc Deep Tech 1, L.P. | $50M | $0 | Raleigh | Jul 28, 2026 |
| 5 | Oval Park SPV TARGAN5S LLC | $20M | $15.3M | Raleigh | Apr 23, 2026 |
How North Carolina Compares
North Carolina holds 0.74% of US venture fund filings, which is 10th of the 26 states with enough filings to publish. An even split across those states would be 3.85% each, and the median state in this series filed 13 venture funds against North Carolina’s 68, a factor of 5.2.
Inside the state, venture funds were 38.2% of the 178 pooled-fund filings recorded, against 42.6% nationally. The median disclosed target was $672K, against $520K across all US venture filings in the same window.
Read the count with the address in mind. Chapel Hill carries 52.9% of the state’s venture filings (36 of 68), and 70.6% of those filings carry series-vehicle names of the “a series of” or “Series 12” form, against 65.6% nationally. Form D reports the issuer’s principal-place-of-business address, which for a fund is often a legal, administrative or platform address rather than where the manager sits. A high concentration in one town, paired with a high series share, means the count is measuring deal vehicles filed through a platform rather than distinct firms raising funds.
Methodology
Source. Public SEC EDGAR Form D filings, collected by VC Beast’s daily automated ingest into our Form D warehouse (coverage 2024-07-01 through 2026-09-15). Figures on this page are as of September 15, 2026.
Scope. Industry group 'Pooled Investment Fund', original filings only (amendments excluded). Venture filings are those whose Form D investmentFundType is 'Venture Capital Fund'. The window is the twelve full months from 2025-09-01 to 2026-08-31, and filings are bucketed by SEC filing date.
Form D reports the issuer's principal-place-of-business state, which for a fund is often a legal or administrative address rather than where the manager sits. Delaware's count in particular reflects vehicles administered at their Delaware domicile address.
Form D discloses a target offering amount (frequently 'Indefinite') and the amount sold as of the filing date. Neither equals final closed fund size, and they are reported separately here.
First-time vehicles are issuers (by SEC CIK) with no earlier filing anywhere in the warehouse (coverage begins 2024-07-01). Each fund vehicle files under its own CIK, so this measures first-time vehicles, not first-time management firms.
Filings are bucketed by SEC filing date, not by fund close or first sale.
Which states get a page. A state gets a page only when it recorded at least 12 venture fund filings in the window — roughly one a month. Below that the monthly series is mostly zeroes and the medians rest on a handful of filings, so the state is excluded from both the route params and the sitemap rather than published thin. 26 states and territories cleared it; 25 did not and have no page.
Reproducible. Every figure on this page is regenerated by node scripts/reports/generate-state-fund-formation.mjs, and the California count is cross-checked against a direct count query on each run. Corrections: our corrections page.
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VC Beast, Venture Fund Formation in North Carolina, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from SEC Form D filings, published September 15, 2026, https://vcbeast.com/reports/fund-formation/north-carolina
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Sources & References
- 1.SEC Form D filings via VC Beast's daily EDGAR ingest(Primary data source: original Form D filings from SEC EDGAR)