Early-to-Growth Stage Venture Capital

Venture Capital

We invest in early-to-growth stage companies that leverage data, technology advances and business models to shape the industrial future. Our portfolio generally includes investments in manufacturing, digital technologies, transportation and mobility, sustainability and the built environment.

Portfolio

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  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Deep Tech
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Built-World
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Built-World
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Built-World
  • Built-World
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Built-World
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Deep Tech
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Deep Tech
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Deep Tech
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Deep Tech
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Applied AI/ML, Data & Cyber Security
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability
  • Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
  • Mobility, Electrification & Sustainability

Albedo designs and builds advanced satellites that operate in very low earth orbit to collect visible and thermal imagery at the highest resolution commercially available.

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Aras engineering and manufacturing software enables the world’s largest manufacturers to manage the lifecycle of complex industrial, medical and electronics products.

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ARRIS Composites’ additive molding manufacturing technology empowers the world’s top brands to produce smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.

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ASAPP is a research-driven company focused on elevating enterprise performance with advances in AI that augment human activity and automate workflows.

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AssetWatch is a leading AI-driven proactive maintenance platform, combining proprietary sensors, cloud-based enterprise software and machine learning to transform vibration and temperature data into early detection and resolution of machine issues.

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Carbon combines software-enabled hardware with materials science to deliver digital manufacturing solutions that empower customers to create revolutionary products at scale.

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Catalant’s software and online marketplace enables organizations to leverage a high quality, agile workforce and quickly execute mission critical workstreams.

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CelLink manufactures customized high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits that enable optimized and efficient power and data systems design in automotive applications.

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Celonis is the global leader in process mining and execution management software, enabling companies to automatically x-ray their processes and find inefficiencies.

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Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company, helping customers reveal, protect and manage their OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company’s comprehensive platform connects seamlessly with customers’ existing infrastructure and programs while providing a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management and secure remote access.

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Cruise makes self-driving vehicles with the potential to save millions of lives, reshape our cities, give people more time, and restore freedom of movement for many.

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Desktop Metal provides comprehensive 3D printing solutions that are changing how parts are designed, manufactured and sold.

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Ecovative uses mycelium to grow category-defining products ranging from leather-like textiles to sustainable packaging to high-performance foams for apparel and beauty, enabling clients to access sustainable alternatives to plastics and polystyrene foams for packaging, building materials, and other applications by using mushroom technology.

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Enbala (acquired by Generac) deploys intelligent software to manage complex distributed energy resources in real-time to improve customer economics and electricity grid resiliency and reliability.

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Everactive provides an IoT sensing platform that enables continuous monitoring of any remote asset by combining self-powered wireless sensors and cloud analytics.

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Extend is an API-first company that allows any merchant to easily offer extended warranties and protection plans while providing the merchant’s end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy providers.

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Fictiv’s digital manufacturing ecosystem delivers high quality precision parts at unprecedented speeds to help hardware teams accelerate design innovation and simplify operations.

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Forge is rebuilding the trades industry with a unique learning system coupled with digital tools to improve quality, productivity and safety in the field.

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Forterra is a leading provider of autonomous systems for ground-based movement. The company is among the earliest innovators in the field of driverless technology, focused on building systems to protect front-line soldiers and enable civilian workers in our industrial base.

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Higharc is an intelligent homebuilding platform that enables users to customize floor plans, materials and other options, providing homebuilders a digital tool to improve sales and improve efficiency and quality in the field.

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HighByte is an industrial software company building DataOps solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges created by Industry 4.0.

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Hippo Harvest is an advanced greenhouse and machine learning platform growing commodity and specialty crops, often out-competing the field on quality, price, and reliability.

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HOVER’s computer vision and mapping technology transforms smartphone photos of any property into an interactive 3D model, enabling quick measurement, design, and estimation of exterior home improvement projects.

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Join‘s multi-party collaboration software connects various stakeholders and their data to improve decision making in the pre-construction phase, when it can most positively impact the project outcome.

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KoBold Metals is a next generation mineral exploration company focused on key electrification minerals including copper, nickel and cobalt.

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LatentAI’s groundbreaking AI processing platform is a modular, fully integrated workflow enabling adaptive AI across the edge continuum without requiring changes to existing AI/ML infrastructure and frameworks.

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Leap connects decentralized energy resources with wholesale energy markets for a cleaner, flexible, and resilient electric grid.

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Lime is the world’s largest shared electric vehicle company. Its mission is to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free.

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Loveland Innovations has developed a drone-based solution that digitizes property data extremely accurately, empowering users to easily analyze the information and make informed decisions.

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Mainspring Energy’s onsite generator technology provides fuel-flexibility and resiliency while saving cost and carbon and accelerating the transition to a net-zero carbon electric grid.

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Menlo Micro has developed the ideal switch, combining the strengths of relays with the merits of the transistor to eliminate trade-offs for system designers.

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MyForest Foods produces healthy plant based whole-cut meat alternatives using an innovative mycelium-based technology process. Its first flagship product is MyBacon Strips, the first whole-cut, plant-based bacon.

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Nexar is building the world’s first vehicle-to-vehicle safe-driving network leveraging machine vision and AI to improve driving safety and understand urban environments.

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NextSilicon is an Israel based early-stage developer of software defined hardware that greatly accelerates high performance computing workloads. Their patented IP uses innovative runtime optimization software coupled with programmable silicon to run 10x to 20x faster than competing solutions.

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Optimal Dynamics brings next-generation AI to the logistics industry. Through their SaaS platform, they enable logistics operations to automate and optimize strategic and operational decisions.

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PhysicsX is a deep-tech company of scientists and engineers, developing machine learning applications to accelerate physics simulations and enable a new frontier of optimization opportunities in design and engineering.

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Poka’s connected worker platform improves factory productivity by empowering workers to learn, solve problems and share knowledge in real-time on the factory floor.

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Proterra is the leading manufacturer of zero-emission transit buses and heavy-duty powertrains, providing cleaner and quieter transportation solutions while reducing fleet costs for owners and operators.

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Quaise is unlocking deep geothermal baseload power through millimeter wave drilling technology and accelerating the clean energy transition by repowering today’s fossil-fired infrastructure with clean geothermal steam.

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Quantum Source is on a mission to make quantum computing a practical reality through the continued advancement of the company’s chip-based photon-atom gate technology.

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Rivian has developed and vertically integrated a connected electric platform that can be flexibly applied to a range of applications, including the company’s adventure products as well as B2B products such as last-mile delivery vans.

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Saildrone is the world leader in oceangoing autonomous surface vehicles, providing unrivaled payload, range, and reliability enabling unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security.

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Sentra‘s Data Lifecycle Security Platform discovers and classifies sensitive cloud data, continuously analyzing and updating security posture. Sentra automatically detects vulnerabilities and ensures remediation and compliance adherence. In the multi-cloud era, Sentra empowers data handlers to innovate and grow.

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Stem combines advanced energy storage solutions with a world-class artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics platform to address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market.

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Superior Sensor provides highly accurate, programmable, MEMS based pressure and flow sensors that are 10x more sensitive and accurate than competitors.

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Tomorrow.io (formerly Climacell) is powering actionable weather insights around the world, with a mission to help people and organizations manage weather-related challenges with the best information and insights.

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Verbit harnesses proprietary AI technology and the largest network of human captioners and transcribers to make live and recorded content and experiences accessible and engaging. With adaptive algorithms and industry-specific expertise, Verbit is trusted to seamlessly deliver accurate transcripts even on niche subjects.

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Volta is building the most utilized public EV charging network and leveraging the power of forward-leaning brands and real estate partners to unlock the future of mobility.

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VulcanForms has pioneered an integrated digital production system combining additive and subtractive techniques to design and deliver breakthrough products both at scale and at a remarkable cost advantage vs. traditional methods.

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ZincFive has developed a unique and scalable nickel-zinc battery technology for mission-critical stationary, motive and data center UPS applications.

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