Rhapsody Venture Partners

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Stage: Pre-Seed, SeedLead: LeadsCheck: $500K–$2MLocation: MA, United StatesContinent: North AmericaWebsite

Rhapsody Venture Partners is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based hard science venture fund founded in 2016 that invests exclusively in startups tackling industrial problems across physics, chemistry, and applied sciences. The firm leads seed rounds with first checks of $500K-2M and screens roughly 2,000 startups per year, with a team of entrepreneurs and business development executives who actively run early customer introductions and secure commercial commitments alongside each investment. Now on its third fund with 50 investments to date, Rhapsody's portfolio includes companies in advanced batteries (Adden Energy, from Harvard), autonomous sensing (NODAR), food technology (Lasso, from Harvard's Wyss Institute), and novel materials (HyperDamping).

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