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Ballistic Ventures III launches $360M venture fund from Menlo Park

New fund · Venture capital · Pre-first close · MENLO PARK, CA · Form D filed 2026-11-02 · sponsor: Ballistic Ventures · all Ballistic Ventures vehicles · Follow Ballistic Ventures →

Ballistic Ventures III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, is raising $360M for a venture capital fund under Regulation D exemption 3(c)(7). The fund is in pre-first-close stage with no investors yet and no placement agent named on the filing.

3(c)(7) — qualified purchasersPre-first closeFirst filing by this entityrepeat_fund_numeralVenture capital

How this compares

  • $360M is larger than 99% of the 7,710 venture capital fund launches with a stated size in the last two years; the median is $1.1M.
  • Among 1,632 fund launches filed from CA in the same window it is larger than 94%; the CA median is $18.8M.
  • Across 451 venture capital sponsors with more than one launch on EDGAR, the median gap between consecutive funds is 3 months.
  • This is the sponsor's 2nd fund launch on EDGAR; the previous one, Ballistic Ventures Fund A, LP, was filed 19 months earlier at $100M.

Computed from every Form D fund launch on EDGAR since late 2024, not sampled. Amounts are the stated offering size; indefinite offerings are excluded.

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Registered adviser

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BALLISTIC VENTURES (BALLISTIC VENTURES ALPHA LLC)

Registration
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Yes
Office
Menlo Park, CA

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People on the filing

Kevin MandiaExecutive Officer
Barmak MeftahExecutive Officer
Theodore SchleinExecutive Officer
Jacob SeidExecutive Officer
Roger ThorntonExecutive Officer
Philip VenablesExecutive Officer

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