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General Catalyst

Check: No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stage founder access with General Catalyst's resilience themes: financial inclusion, health assurance, domestic defense and industrial capability, energy infrastructure, locally relevant consumer products, and regulated platforms that modernize large GDP-driving sectors.

Lux Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Lux invests early and can support companies across their development, but its USD 7B under management and individual financing totals are not Peter's personal allocation limits.

Peter seeks scientifically and technologically ambitious ventures attempting what most people think will not work but could become indispensable if they succeed. He is a generalist across technology and healthcare, with a particular record in multidisciplinary platforms—robotics, software, data, imaging, AI, and biology—that expand human capability, create new categories, and convert substantial technical risk into outsized societal and economic value.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.

Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans application and cloud security, identity, threat detection, incident response, security operations, enterprise data, supply-chain intelligence, and defense software. His approach combines product depth, customer and government networks, executive recruiting, and long-term board work to help technically strong teams become category leaders.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Gopi Sundaramurthy invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Collin West invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

General Catalyst

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Her public record spans seed investments through large follow-on rounds, but total financing sizes and General Catalyst's assets are not personal check parameters.

Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, industrial transformation, enterprise, and consumer markets, connecting startups with established industry. Her Global Resilience lens focuses on owning critical systems of power, scaling European technical talent, and commercializing technologies until they can thrive without permanent subsidy.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Ian Heinrich invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Khosla invests from seed through growth; company round totals and the firm's assets are not Sven's personal check parameters.

Sven backs technically ambitious companies that can create new industries or unlock novel user experiences. His engineering lens favors frontier AI, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, developer infrastructure, climate, and other atoms-plus-software businesses where improved simulation, computation, manufacturing, or foundational models make a previously government-scale or uneconomic problem tractable for a startup.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki's sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million; this describes the firm's target round, not Wilson's personal authority. He sources and evaluates opportunities within that day-zero mandate.

Wilson sources and evaluates Nordic first-round opportunities across Maki's sector-agnostic mandate, with a research-driven lens and responsibility for ESG development. His first publicly attributed 2026 investment highlights critical deep-tech infrastructure: technically defensible systems addressing a rapidly worsening physical-world problem, with government and commercial customers and a concrete path from development into operational proof.

Paradigm

Check: Paradigm invests at every stage, from first check through public markets. Its fourth fund is $1.2 billion, but neither the firm nor Alana publishes a personal check range; the fund size is therefore not treated as her check authority.

Alana co-leads a research- and builder-led strategy that backs ambitious technical founders from first check through public markets. Paradigm began in crypto and now targets the fastest-moving technology frontiers, including AI, robotics, advanced manufacturing, autonomous systems, space and defense, while continuing to invest in crypto-native markets and financial infrastructure.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki's published sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this is a firm round-size criterion, not Paavo's personal check range. Fund III is the active new-investment vehicle, with selective follow-ons from older funds.

Paavo backs Nordic deep-tech founders at their first institutional round when a radical scientific or engineering advance can overhaul an industry. He requires a credible technical foundation, balanced technical and commercial talent, control of a valuable position in the value chain, deep customer understanding, and a distinctive brand capable of making complex technology category-defining.

Lux Capital

Check: No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Shahin invests from early conviction through enduring scale and has co-founded companies; financing requirements are opportunity-specific and should be confirmed directly.

Shahin creates and backs generational frontier companies that endow people and machines with new capabilities. An engineer and founder, he looks across AI, chips, compute, autonomy, aerospace, robotics, biotech, defense, energy, and infrastructure for radical underlying technologies—not diminishing improvements—that can unlock previously impossible products. He invests early, may help form companies, and supports founders through technical proof, customer trust, manufacturing, and scale.

Lux Capital

Check: No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Tess invests at both early and growth stages and participates in Lux company creation; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than infer an allocation from fund size or disclosed company rounds.

Tess is a technically trained generalist investing where AI, biology, aerospace, and the physical world intersect. She seeks engineers and scientists turning frontier research into companies, with particular interest in computational methods that make biology more engineerable, the data and model bottlenecks behind scientific discovery, and high-consequence systems such as biodefense.

Lux Capital

Check: No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Brandon invests at both early and growth stages; disclosed financing rounds, such as Hugging Face's $15M Series A, are total rounds and not his personal allocation range.

Brandon backs technical platforms and applications across software, AI, defense, and manufacturing. A recurring theme is open or developer-led infrastructure that turns frontier capability into production systems, paired with companies modernizing regulated or antiquated industries. His current portfolio spans open models and AI cloud, nature-inspired foundation models, coding agents, finance automation, defense autonomy, physical AI, autonomous factories, life-sciences R&D, security, data, and crypto infrastructure.

Lux Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Lux's USD 7B under management and disclosed company rounds are not Grace's personal range; she is explicitly described as a first-check and early investor.

Grace backs computational-science companies where software or AI transforms difficult physical, institutional, or technical systems. She looks for first-check opportunities in infrastructure and applications, including model platforms, developer tools, generative media, robotics, and AI-native enterprise workflows. Her product lens starts with a painful real-world experience and asks whether new fundamental technology enables an excellent end-to-end product, rather than an AI feature bolted onto an old workflow.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check range is published. Khosla's firm-level Seed and Main Funds span technical experiments through later financings; historical seed commentary cited roughly $1M–$2M. Nicole's additional Capital Formation role should not be read as a disclosed personal check authority.

Nicole backs frontier AI across infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, defense, and biology. Her scientific training in cancer and viral immunology gives her a mechanistic lens for AI–biology convergence, while her founder experience provides a capital-efficient consumer and commercialization perspective. Her named investments—Medal/General Intuition, Highlight, Cellular Intelligence, and Vero—signal interest in world models and embodied intelligence, consumer/enterprise software, biological intelligence, and defense applications.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No personal or standard firm-wide check range is published. Ilya's official portfolio spans early and growth investments; Kleiner disclosed that its 2019 Series A investment in Rippling was $25M, but that one transaction is not a general range or personal limit.

Ilya invests in technology and novel business models capable of fundamentally reshaping industries. His portfolio connects AI-native professional work, enterprise operating systems, mathematical and software agents, physical AI, autonomous defense, logistics, healthspan, biotech, and financial infrastructure. A recurring pattern is a product-centric company that can redefine a large workflow and pair a technical discontinuity with a new go-to-market or business model.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No personal check range or signing authority is published. Lucas participates across early and growth investments; disclosed company financings should not be treated as his personal range.

Lucas invests in enterprise software and cybersecurity across early and growth stages. His portfolio connects foundation models, data and enterprise AI, open-source software security, managed security, offensive-security automation, operational resilience, physical safety, autonomy, defense, and space. His software private-equity background adds a durable-business lens to technically ambitious companies.

Craft Ventures

Check: No Kindle-specific check range is public. Craft's live portfolio attributes her to growth, Series A and Series B investments, but those stage labels do not reveal individual allocation authority or check size. Confirm current vehicle, ownership and lead/co-invest posture directly.

Kindle invests where AI or advanced technology becomes a mission-critical operating layer in large, regulated or technically demanding markets. Her attributed work spans AI medical knowledge, regulatory compliance, autonomous defense systems, biotechnology and neurotechnology, with a recurring emphasis on trusted domain data, expert workflows, demonstrable adoption and products capable of becoming the intelligence layer for an industry.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Paulien van Empelen is listed in a Financial Controller capacity at TIN Capital. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Lilly Vernor is listed in a Product Lead, Data Team capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Caroline Trant Chambers is listed in a Director, Partnerships and Capital Formation capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Devin Beckwith invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Nesta Lenhert-Scholer is listed in a Principal Software Engineer, Data Team capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Rooney Pitchford is listed in a Director, Operations capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Nicole Stump is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Conrad Shang invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and its Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M; a 2020 interview described historical seed checks around $1M–$2M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adrian's personal authority.

Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes partnering before defining strategic moments rather than arriving only for transactions; the relevant lens is whether a bold founder has an unfair advantage, a billion-dollar market, and a disciplined plan to remove the most important technical and market risks.

Moonshots Capital

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Farah Daou is part of Moonshots Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back exceptional early-stage technology leaders and apply military operating experience, government networks, and hands-on board support to help them scale.

Moonshots Capital

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Mike Bryan is part of Moonshots Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back exceptional early-stage technology leaders and apply military operating experience, government networks, and hands-on board support to help them scale.

Moonshots Capital

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Maria Tangarova is part of Moonshots Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back exceptional early-stage technology leaders and apply military operating experience, government networks, and hands-on board support to help them scale.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Paige Craig invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Leura Craig invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Deepika Jonnalagadda invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Jordan Kretchmer invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Jeremy Johnson invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Kelly DiGregorio is listed in a Head of Platform and Operations capacity at Outlander VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Casey Perley invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Jeff Wesley invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Pete Martin invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Matt Okoneski invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Tommy Skinner invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Karis D'Alessandro invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Moody Mattan invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Vikram Mohan invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Calvin VanderWal invests or supports investments through Michigan Rise's published strategy: Provide strategic early-stage funding and ecosystem support to high-growth technology startups with meaningful operations and job creation in Michigan.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Nichole Maguire is listed in a Venture Coordinator capacity at Michigan Rise. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

AJ Smith invests or supports investments through Outlander VC's published strategy: Identify exceptional founders early through vision, intelligence, character and execution, then help them navigate the full company-building journey.

Outlander VC

Check: $750K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Outlander VC.

Tal Lev is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Outlander VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Michigan Rise

Check: Michigan Rise does not publish a single standard current check range on its homepage; official program materials describe staged early investments up to $250K.

Abdel Diab is listed in a Data Analyst capacity at Michigan Rise. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Michael Lucassen invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Maarten Derks invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Kayin Lam is listed in a CFO capacity at TIN Capital. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Roel Reijnen invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Reinout vander Meûlen invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Bart Houlleberghs invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

TIN Capital

Check: TIN Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

Adrien Vanheste invests or supports investments through TIN Capital's published strategy: Back European cybersecurity and related technology companies with specialist operational, technical and financial support.

Worldbuild

Check: Worldbuild does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

Sumeet Singh invests or supports investments through Worldbuild's published strategy: Partner early with creative technologists building original, technically ambitious companies across compute, AI, energy, health and other frontier markets.

Eniac Ventures

Check: Eniac Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Hadley Harris invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

Eniac Ventures

Check: Eniac Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Nihal Mehta invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

Eniac Ventures

Check: Eniac Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Mike Witkowski is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Eniac Ventures

Check: Eniac Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Dorian Rutherford is listed in a Head of Platform capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Eniac Ventures

Check: Eniac Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Dan Donovan is listed in a Business Operations Manager capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ross Fubini invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Chauncey Hamilton invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Manish Patel invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Camille Ricketts invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Mallory Buckwald is listed in a Head of Community capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Christine Hubbard is listed in a Senior Executive Assistant capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Alexa Romanoff is listed in a Senior Executive Assistant capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

Check: XYZ Venture Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Meg DeColli is listed in a Assistant Controller capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Bow Capital

Check: $5M average investment into core companies, as published by Bow Capital.

Vivek Ranadivé is listed in a Founder and Managing Director capacity at Bow Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Bow Capital

Check: $5M average investment into core companies, as published by Bow Capital.

Murray Rode invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

Lightcone Ventures

Check: Lightcone Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Kam Ghaffarian invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-industrialization, physical AI, advanced compute and defense.

Lightcone Ventures

Check: Lightcone Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Anton Brevde invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-industrialization, physical AI, advanced compute and defense.

Lightcone Ventures

Check: Lightcone Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Brad Pruente invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-industrialization, physical AI, advanced compute and defense.

Lightcone Ventures

Check: Lightcone Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Daniel Narea invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-industrialization, physical AI, advanced compute and defense.

Caffeinated Capital

Check: Caffeinated Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Matthew Volosin is listed in a Partner and COO capacity at Caffeinated Capital. His official biography says he oversees the firm's non-investment functions, so the profile preserves that operational distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Contrary

Check: Contrary does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Eric Tarczynski invests or supports investments through Contrary's published strategy: Identify exceptional entrepreneurs early through talent networks and research, then invest in a small number of companies from seed to scale.

Contrary

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Kyle Harrison invests or supports investments through Contrary's published strategy: Identify exceptional entrepreneurs early through talent networks and research, then invest in a small number of companies from seed to scale.

Contrary

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Michelle Brown is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Contrary

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Brooke Presten is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Contrary

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Sachin Maini is listed in a Senior Editor capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Contrary

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Claire Schultz is listed in a Research Associate capacity at Contrary. The official roster does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves the functional distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Contrary

Check: Contrary does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Jen Yang-Wong is listed in a Chief Operating Officer capacity at Contrary. The official roster does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves the functional distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Dayna Grayson invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Rachel Holt invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Eugene Wan invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Camila Key Saruhashi invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

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Kirby Bartlett is listed in a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer capacity at Construct Capital. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Construct Capital

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Joachim Vaturi invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Leland Chamlin invests or supports investments through Construct Capital's published strategy: Back technology founders reinventing manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy and other foundational industries that have suffered chronic under-investment.

Construct Capital

Check: Construct Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ali Gleason is listed in a Operations Manager capacity at Construct Capital. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Construct Capital

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Emily Prechtl is listed in a Operations Associate capacity at Construct Capital. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Construct Capital

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Grace Jung is listed in a Office Manager and Executive Assistant capacity at Construct Capital. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Crosscut Ventures

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Brian Garrett invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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William Scriven serves in a Partner and Head of Capital Formation capacity at Crosscut Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Crosscut Ventures

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Jerry Orzech invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Rick Smith serves in a Co-Founder, Investment Committee and Senior Advisor capacity at Crosscut Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Crosscut Ventures

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Jon Ylvisaker invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Brett Brewer invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Jason DeHaven serves in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Crosscut Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Crosscut Ventures

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JJ Ford invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Karl Wagner invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Wayne Murdy invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Ryan Kuhn invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Antoine Grant invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Camilla Marcus invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Crosscut Ventures

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Ulrick Noel invests or supports investments through Crosscut Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in hardware and software at the intersection of technology and physical-world transformation, including energy, decarbonization, space, defense, manufacturing, robotics and resilient supply chains.

Cantos Ventures

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Ian Rountree invests or supports investments through Cantos Ventures's published strategy: Seed near-frontier companies that create abundance, strengthen critical systems and improve democratic competitiveness across advanced technologies, manufacturing and resources.

Cantos Ventures

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Grant Gregory invests or supports investments through Cantos Ventures's published strategy: Seed near-frontier companies that create abundance, strengthen critical systems and improve democratic competitiveness across advanced technologies, manufacturing and resources.

Cantos Ventures

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Amee Kapadia invests or supports investments through Cantos Ventures's published strategy: Seed near-frontier companies that create abundance, strengthen critical systems and improve democratic competitiveness across advanced technologies, manufacturing and resources.

Cantos Ventures

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Sofia Garcia serves in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Cantos Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Silent Ventures

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Jackson Moses invests or supports investments through Silent Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in exceptional founders building consequential aerospace, defense, national-security and resilience technologies for the United States and its allies.

Moonshots Capital

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Kelly Perdew is part of Moonshots Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back exceptional early-stage technology leaders and apply military operating experience, government networks, and hands-on board support to help them scale.

Moonshots Capital

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Craig Cummings is part of Moonshots Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back exceptional early-stage technology leaders and apply military operating experience, government networks, and hands-on board support to help them scale.

Craft Ventures

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Kindle invests in technically differentiated AI, defense, and enterprise software that turns expert knowledge or hard engineering into a high-trust operational system. Her published cases favor products that automate expensive, consequential workflows while improving quality: regulatory agents that encode rules, medical intelligence grounded in evidence, and autonomous or frontier systems with strategic importance. Her growth background adds attention to adoption, category position, and scalable economics.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes venture and growth investments to Taylor, including a Series B investment in Xona; financing totals are not his personal check authority.

Taylor backs frontier systems and software, with a strong interest in physical AI and resilient infrastructure. His Xona thesis illustrates the pattern: a strategically critical legacy system faces technical and geopolitical limits; a new hardware-software architecture produces order-of-magnitude performance gains; and the product can serve both commercial and defense markets. His finance background also supports attention to capital planning and scaling requirements.

Lightcone Ventures

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Nick Dane is listed in a Investor Relations capacity at Lightcone Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Bow Capital

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Rafi Syed invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

Eniac Ventures

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Kat Choe is listed in a Office Manager capacity at Eniac Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Contrary

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Jennifer Nordlund is listed in a Operations capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Eniac Ventures

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Tim Young invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

Eniac Ventures

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Kristin McDonald invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

Bow Capital

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Daven Patel invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

Eniac Ventures

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Michael Zhao invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

Contrary

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Diana Khademi is listed in a Operations capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

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Hannah Vu is listed in a Data Engineer, Data Team capacity at Ensemble VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Angie Kirk is listed in a Business Operations Manager capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Ensemble VC

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Aidan Gold invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Contrary

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Rachel LeScoezec invests or supports investments through Contrary's published strategy: Identify exceptional entrepreneurs early through talent networks and research, then invest in a small number of companies from seed to scale.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Alyssa Kelley is listed in a Controller capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Bow Capital

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Andre Ranadivé invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

Bow Capital

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Manveer Sandhu invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Art Clarke invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

Caffeinated Capital

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Raymond Tonsing invests or supports investments through Caffeinated Capital's published strategy: Lead Seed and Series A rounds for aggressively optimistic founders pursuing their life's work, then invest across the life of category-defining technology companies.

Caffeinated Capital

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Varun Gupta invests or supports investments through Caffeinated Capital's published strategy: Lead Seed and Series A rounds for aggressively optimistic founders pursuing their life's work, then invest across the life of category-defining technology companies.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Steve Hilk is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at XYZ Venture Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

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JeanClaude Dorsainvil invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Lucy Wilmot invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

Contrary

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David Oko is listed in a Director, Finance capacity at Contrary. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Bow Capital

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James Chan is listed in a CFO capacity at Bow Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

XYZ Venture Capital

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Ammar Kazi invests or supports investments through XYZ Venture Capital's published strategy: Back early founders with earned insight and help them execute faster across enterprise, fintech and technology-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

Bow Capital

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Ian Walker invests or supports investments through Bow Capital's published strategy: Back founders building AI for the physical world across modern industry, defense, logistics and digital biology, using the University of California ecosystem to accelerate science into society.

Eniac Ventures

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Shyan Koul invests or supports investments through Eniac Ventures's published strategy: Lead and support pre-seed and seed founders from zero to one, applying operator experience to accelerate product-market fit across AI, software, consumer and deep technology.

XYZ Venture Capital

San Francisco, California

Crosscut Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Ensemble VC

Austin, Texas

Contrary

San Francisco, California

Eniac Ventures

New York, New York

Michigan Rise

East Lansing, Michigan

Construct Capital

Washington, D.C.

Outlander VC

United States

TIN Capital

Amstelveen, Netherlands

Bow Capital

Menlo Park, California

Cantos Ventures

San Francisco, California

Lightcone Ventures

Austin, Texas

Moonshots Capital

Austin, Texas

Caffeinated Capital

San Francisco and New York

Silent Ventures

Dallas, Texas

Worldbuild

San Francisco, California