Member Spotlight: The Artemis Fund
For this deep dive, we spoke to Stephanie Campbell, Co-Founder and General Partner of The Artemis Fund.
Tell us about your firm. What makes it different?
Artemis leads a concentrated, high-conviction seed strategy. We lead or co-lead every deal, embed financial rigor early, and open the doors that help founders control their destiny. My own path shapes how we operate: I grew up in Alabama navigating generational poverty, worked my way to Capitol Hill, became a lobbyist shaping federal policy and funding, earned my MBA, and later led one of the nation’s most active angel networks deploying $50 million into early-stage companies. That experience built my conviction in disciplined investing and my strength as a connector.
We excel at the two areas founders often struggle with most: finance and fundraising. Every founder we back gets access to an outsourced CFO advisor to sharpen capital deployment and drive toward profitability. When we lead a round, we demonstrate value immediately through targeted, high-quality investor introductions.
What defines your portfolio?
Artemis portfolio companies operate in sectors where inefficiency has a high cost and where better infrastructure creates outsized returns for individuals, families, and businesses. What ties them together is durability: high-conviction founders building platforms with real revenue, clear unit economics, and the potential to scale exponentially. We’re intentional about investing in teams that have lived experience with the problems they’re solving. The result is a concentrated, resilient portfolio reshaping core pillars of economic mobility in the U.S.
Tell us about the current VC landscape in your geography/region.
Artemis team members are based across the country, and I personally live in New York. New York City is one of the strongest and most resilient venture hubs in the world, with $28.5B invested in 2024. That level of deployment reflects the city’s unmatched density of talent, culture, and ambition.
In 2025, NYC startups continued to attract major funding across stages, including $1.50B in November alone, with particular strength in early-stage activity where NYC represented 22.6% of the national total. Powered by leading sectors like fintech, AI, healthcare, and media, the ecosystem benefits from a concentration of industries that only New York can offer.
For us, that means a deep bench of co-investors, a steady flow of founders solving real economic problems (like Artemis portfolio companies Brij, SimpliFed, Builders Patch, Knova, and Salvo Health), and a vibrant environment to lead seed rounds with conviction.
What are the benefits of being an NVCA member?
NVCA membership offers access to unique networking and programming opportunities that aren’t available elsewhere in the venture ecosystem, and provides a policy voice for the industry at moments when regulation, taxation, and capital formation are shifting. The data, research, and legislative updates help firms anticipate changes that affect fundraising, governance, and long-term planning.
The community itself is also a huge asset. NVCA convenes GPs, LPs, policymakers, and operators to exchange best practices and strengthen the standards that define institutional-grade venture capital. For firms like ours, it’s both a learning network and an influence network.
What’s ahead for your firm?
In 2026, we’re doubling down on our hunt to back outlier founders and build the next great venture fund. Wealth creates opportunity, and opportunity shapes who gets to participate and who gets to win. Our work is focused on expanding access to that opportunity by backing resilient founders building in fintech, care infrastructure, future of work, and commerce enablement.
