Invests from $500k pre-seed to $100M growth in hard-tech modernizing aerospace, energy, construction, and manufacturing, targeting underfunded sectors, led by a six-time infrastructure founder and offering built-in executive recruiting.

Julian Capital is a deeptech seed fund investing across most deeptech sectors (including chips, chemicals, energy, robotics, sensors, and medtech).

Early-stage investor focused on national-security technologies, led by a former Navy SEAL, bridging startups to government buyers with ex-operators and acquisition experts for procurement and dual-use commercialization.

Prioritizes founders in governance, offers a 1% non-dilutive founder development fund for coaching/therapy, optimizes revenue efficiency, and backs geo-agnostic teams outside Silicon Valley focused on reinvention and frontier startups.

Financially driven, not strategic corporate VC; aggressively backs competitors; offers a large in‑house design/product studio with Design and Brand Sprints plus ML-driven opportunity scoring.

Seed-stage firm focused on deeptech, healthtech and data-economy; women- and minority-owned, founded by former Cisco/Juniper operators leveraging the Tsinghua network, with an Alpha Program (5%) and unicorn-track record.

Virtual accelerator offering $250k–$1M as the first check, with direct DARPA and defense-buyer access and a single application reviewed by three specialized defense investors.

Backs non-consensus, anti‑thesis product bets (AI‑native and future‑of‑work), with former-operator and product-leader partners who advise founders on product strategy.

Early-stage investor focused on defensible AI, advanced materials and industry automation with a deep-tech and data-moat thesis, offering founders Lu Zhang’s credibility as a researcher and medical device entrepreneur.

Stealthy investor across frontier sectors (space, biotech, AI) making sub-$500K average checks into technically complex startups with exceptional defensibility and operational guidance from GP Rob Ness’s 2% Rule.

Invests at frontier seed and pre-IPO secondaries via a Nasdaq Private Market partnership, targeting N of 1 AI/quantum/aerospace/longevity/advanced materials startups and screening for Massively Transformative Purpose.

Focuses on enabling infrastructure for a scalable space economy (not tourism), integrating space, biotech, and human-performance technologies to enable long-duration interplanetary habitation.

Builds and invests in technologies making movement cleaner, faster, safer, and lower-cost across ground, air, sea, and space, partnering with bold entrepreneurs and major companies to scale.

Led by MassRobotics co-founder Fady Saad, the fund leverages deep robotics ecosystem ties, access to founders, corporates and talent, and offers playbooks, conferences and business-model rigor for robotics founders.

Contrarian, founder-maximalist VC that backs hard scientific breakthroughs and category-defining, overlooked markets, never removing founders as CEOs and making fast, independent investment decisions.

Targets companies applying modern computation (AI, simulation) to agriculture, mining, manufacturing, health and defense, leveraging partners' hard‑science and national‑security expertise to navigate regulation and dual‑use challenges.

Founded by Bryan Johnson, invests in platforms and enabling technologies supporting inventors and scientists building programmable-biology solutions to rewrite life's operating systems and benefit humanity.

Pre-seed deeptech co-investor that writes many fast $25K checks, partnering alongside top firms, offering speed, broad frontier-domain expertise (AI, robotics, space, biotech) and deeptech credibility.

Focuses on technically demanding hardware and niche founders in computer vision, robotics, and 3D computing; provides hands-on expertise from an early Oculus/spatial-computing leader and referral-driven, defense-resilience sourcing.

Pre-seed firm (leads $500K–$2M rounds) guaranteeing funds in 10 business days via Pre-Seed Fast Track, offering serial-founder, operator, and Ph.D.-level technical expertise for biobanking, robotics, bio tooling.

Relationship-driven firm that backs founders seed-to-growth, makes contrarian bets in capital‑intensive frontier areas (orbital manufacturing, nuclear space, defense), and brings partners' FinTech and applied‑AI/data‑science experience from companies like Affirm.

Solo GP centered on a newsletter-driven media flywheel investing broadly with minimal ownership and no board seats, amplifying founders via Sponsored Deep Dives that generate revenue and storytelling.

Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; provides a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments.

Contrarian n-of-1 investor across AI/ML, robotics, bio and crypto, incubating scientific white-space startups, publishing hundreds of open technical theses and timing contrarian deployment using hedge-fund volatility and scientific expertise.

Acts as a VC and venture studio—co-founds startups with 25–30% of capital, assembles top‑1% specialists, and builds national‑capability defense, industrials, and bio‑infrastructure companies with corporate partners.

Writes small, non‑lead checks and deliberately slots alongside top‑tier leads, giving founders direct access to partners actively training 100B+ parameter foundation models and maximizing helpfulness per dollar.

Seed-stage investor focused on data-centric, moat-driven startups; founder-first (no board seats, won't vote founders out), offers late-stage operating support at seed and limits partners to 6–8 companies.

Early investor in AI applications and infrastructure, led by active AI practitioners Socher, Manning, and Goldbloom who continue hands-on research and company-building, offering domain expertise and founder partnership.

An aggressive techno-optimist investor that tolerates ~70% failure to back capital‑intensive, science‑heavy climate, healthcare and deep‑tech bets, embracing extreme technical risk and non‑consensus opportunities.

Early-stage boutique that publicly rebooted after admitting a lost decade, offering an institutionalized Fellows talent pipeline funneling top students into breakout startups.

Early institutional backer that sources tech from academia and government labs, partnering with scientist- and engineer-led teams to deeply interrogate science, dual-use/defense opportunities, and amplify through an in-house media platform.

Seed-stage team of practicing engineers who underwrite engineering risk in robotics, dev tools, and manufacturing; reserve two-thirds for follow-ons and offer lab space, machine shops, events, and hands-on support.

Seed-stage fund that charges no management fees, invests half in India, Brazil and Kenya, focuses on proactive wellness and entrepreneur-enabling platforms, and offers low-friction investor support.

Early-stage investor focused on fintech, AI/ML, enterprise and defense, offering institutional public-markets analytics, ex-operator domain expertise, and military and intelligence veterans for defense founders.

Early-stage, board-taking firm offering partners' AI expertise (ex-Nuance CTO; ex-Chorus/Reprise CEO), proprietary ML research/talent scanners, open-source AI Palette, and granular technical due diligence.

Hybrid venture-philanthropy investing on decades-to-centuries timelines in deep tech tackling existential risks like advanced AI, offering founders a bridge to academia, long-horizon support, and safety-focused exits funding research.

Led by a former Google X founder, they apply a moonshot lab prototyping mindset and formal Triad thesis—deep tech, transformed unit economics, climate-positive outcomes—offering prototyping and unit-economics reverse-engineering.

Early-stage, first-money-in partner for technically ambitious founders transforming the physical world (energy, defense, infrastructure, space, advanced manufacturing), underwriting high technical and regulatory risk.

Targets companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; cutting healthcare costs from aging and chronic disease; and enabling sustainable food production for growing populations.

Early-stage, multi-thematic firm investing in purpose-driven founders reimagining the building blocks of life and society.

Founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, they invest exclusively in sensors, advanced ML/cloud, and robotics/3D printing/CRISPR, offering an invite-only Curiosity Camp and a venture-creation program forming founding teams.

Leads seed rounds with $1–2M checks (targeting ~10%); solo GP offering founders direct access to Zal, leveraging Google/Netflix/LinkedIn operator experience to scale broad hard-tech startups (Solugen, Astranis).

Early-stage US–Greater China bridge investor with Silicon Valley base and deep China ties, offering a broad frontier-tech mandate (AI, blockchain, IoT, VR/AR, gaming) and public-market-to-venture continuity to scale cross-border.

Bioscience investor translating grant-funded research into venture-scale companies, with a pipeline centered on engineering biology using robotic cloud labs and computational design for human health and planetary sustainability.

Pre-seed and seed investor for computing×real-world startups (techbio, climate, robotics, industrial infrastructure) run by deeply technical ex-founders who enforce a strict rebuildability bar and bring AI/bio experience.

Pre-seed/seed specialist focusing on physical AI and deep-tech (robotics, sensors, quantum/next‑gen compute, energy transition) that commercializes University of Chicago deep‑tech for real-world industries.

Early-stage, first-in investor focused exclusively on materials science, spinning university tech into startups and acting as hands-on initial operators to build companies from the lab bench up (≈30 portfolio).

Early-stage investor in deep-tech—AI, cybersecurity, quantum, robotics, space tech, synthetic biology—with rare bioengineering focus and technically deep partners who engage with complex product and R&D.

Invests at extreme inception with $50k–$100k R&D checks, favoring founders without undergraduate degrees and deep‑tech sci‑fi projects; runs micro‑grants, teen camps, and a 3,000+ hacker community.

Solo-GP Celestine Schnugg treats founders as scientist-protagonists, focuses on frontier genomics, machine intelligence, new chemistries and space, underwrites high technical/market risk, frequently backs underrepresented leaders, and convenes secret meetups.

Solo-GP led by chemical engineer Ariana Thacker, investing in consumer-facing science companies (health, climate, life-quality) using a 12+ months-to-replicate defensibility test; ~80% portfolio led by underrepresented founders.

Thesis-driven fund transforming manufacturing, logistics, transportation, energy, defense and critical infrastructure into tech-first industrials, leveraging deep industrial expertise and scaled operating experience from Uber to deploy software and AI.

Operator-heavy team of repeat entrepreneurs that disproportionately backs pre-product deep-tech moonshots addressing civilization-scale problems, applies a strict Mr. Burns test, and runs 5050 to help scientists become founders.

Exclusively backs startups with at least one immigrant founder, leveraging immigrant leadership and Semyon Dukach’s probabilistic, MIT Blackjack Team–derived approach to evaluate founders and venture risk.

Permanent balance-sheet investor backing founders from incorporation through Series A, focusing on overlooked mission-driven and science/tech startups and offering a co-investor network, high-touch support, and contractually committed operational projects.

Very-early investor using an impact-arbitrage strategy in high-impact companies, combining a solo-GP and 42 global venture partners to secure 69% top-tier follow-ons while pursuing top-decile returns and social impact.

Pre-seed and seed investor backing frontier deep-tech startups with differentiated IP; multi-exit founder-operator GPs provide hands-on operational support, even filling roles like COO, CFO, sales rep, headhunter, or janitor.

Deliberate 60/40 tech/healthcare split focused on de novo company formation, with a transparent debate-driven partner scoring system (1–4) and proven multi-generation continuity.

Early-stage investor allocating around 80% to breakthrough climate technologies (carbon-negative concrete, atmospheric carbon removal), acting as a first believer through a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family.

Targets early-stage venture-backed startups in the U.S. and select countries, specializing in national-security technologies and offering technology identification and analysis across all development stages.

Early-stage space VC focused on multi-planetary tech and in-space manufacturing (protein crystallization, artificial retinas), applying Wall Street cash-flow/intrinsic-value discipline and building structured space accelerators for startups.

Leads pre-seed sci‑fi/deep‑tech rounds with a standardized $500k check for sub-$1M raises at $3M–$7M valuations, offering early crypto and VR accelerator expertise.

Early-stage investor via accelerator programs and later rounds, offering in-house labs, fabrication and advanced equipment, Shenzhen/Pune engineering and manufacturing teams for hardware, and support for non‑traditional founders.

Targets concept-stage software-plus-physical goods startups, acting as a hands-on product partner with experienced hardware engineers, a million-dollar prototyping shop, and direct help on design, manufacturing and fundraising.

Ex-founder deeptech fund making $250K–$2M first checks into non-consensus moonshots in compute, defense, smart planet, humantech—prioritizing multi‑billion step‑changes and free‑world resilience, replying with blunt feedback within five working days.

Cross-over VC and corporate-venture partners with 15+ years' experience operating four structured networks—scouting, industry, functional, technology—scouting labs and offering guaranteed deck review across U.S., Europe, Canada and Israel.

Permanent, flexible single-family-office co-investor focused on frontier/new-space and adjacent deeptech, offering lean, hands-on partnership, top investor syndicate access, and philanthropic-to-institutional space ecosystem connectivity via founder Ryan Kriser.

Invests from early experiments through public markets, leveraging Jason Zeng’s Tencent alumni network and Asia–Silicon Valley cross-border presence to support founders in hard-to-underwrite areas like urban mobility and eVTOL.

Invests from pre-seed through public stages, offering accelerator support, public-market exit access, and a proprietary market-intelligence engine tracking ~2,000 transactions and 75% of companies seeking capital.

Early-stage scout writing $25k–$200k checks in San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong, focused on private-asset infrastructure platforms like AngelList, Republic and Forge Global.

Pre-seed specialist investing at the team and a dream stage in deep-tech applied AI and machine-centric businesses, using a proactive Frontier Curve framework organized around three vectors.

Micro‑fund focused on the very earliest stages in robotics and AI, targeting technically deep founders tackling hard problems, led by a former Facebook deal lead and prioritizing founder control.

Independent VC using an aerospace systems lens to back dual-use deep-science technologies (quantum, hydrogen, climate, materials, space), prioritizing founders with outstanding technical leadership and first-principles engineering expertise.

Founded in 2002, this fund invests in disruptive technologies spanning life, physical, and data sciences, prioritizing opportunities driven by scientific convergence.

Technology VC backing immigrant and cross-border founders in software, life sciences, and deep tech, leveraging ex‑Google/Palantir product leadership and scientific expertise, with deep technical underwriting, content-heavy guidance, and breakout exits.

Invests at seed and early stages in purpose-driven, trailblazing entrepreneurs with unique ideas capable of reinventing entire industries.

Miami-based VC focused on fusion, geothermal, advanced materials and climate tech, advising founders on capital-stacking deep-tech companies from lab to scale.

Invests in very-early to early-stage AI startups, leveraging founders' Layer 6 and Vector Institute ties including Geoffrey Hinton for deep access, and offers up to $250,000 in GPU credits.

Specializes in frontier and dual-use technologies founded by military, intelligence, and research-lab founders, serving as a commercialization bridge with founder-operator expertise and proprietary defense deal access.

Seed-stage led by former Facebook and OpenAI engineers focused on foundational infrastructure (developer platforms, AI systems), offering an intentional learning community with coding early-career engineers in hybrid technical-investing roles.

Backs speculative science fiction technologies like artificial wombs, de‑extinction and brain‑computer interfaces, leveraging Draper University, entrepreneur hostels and a TV pitch show to shepherd founders into its pipeline.

Pre-seed, operator-led solo GP (9-figure exit) operating as a Day Zero kingmaker for frontier space, defense, energy, manufacturing, semiconductor, autonomy and AI founders focused on global resilience.

Later-stage investor offering multi-asset access to private equity, credit and capital-markets expertise, plus hands-on operator-led growth support from a Hive team specialized in regulated fintech.

Specialist VC within a larger group with permanent capital and VCT/EIS retail channels, sector-focused pods (deep tech, climate, health, fintech, consumer) and dedicated US expansion support for European founders.

Pure-play seed investor with a friend-founded, attribution-free partnership, mandatory round-robin partner meetings and 1–4 scoring requiring 12+ points, leveraging founder network as live diligence and Nihal Mehta's Rolodex/community programs.

Builds companies from scratch via hatch heritage, operates transformation platforms for AI-enabled service roll-ups, offers non-dilutive revenue-share funding, and leads cross-border deals under an unscaling AI thesis.

Federated, regionally based network offering local-first investors and highly involved, board-level partner support with weekly founder contact—intense, founder-friendly engagement rather than light-touch volume investing.

Invests across public and private tech via an AI-native crossover platform that uses proprietary social and alternative-data research to inform deals, offers fund access ($50K min) and entertainment ties.

With 25+ years and support for over 600 companies, they invest in and support founders from seed through later stages, helping turn founders' visions into reality.

Early-stage investor that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications.

Solo-GP pre-seed and seed investor (up to $1M) in freight, logistics, construction and B2B financial infrastructure, offering hands-on regulated-market operating expertise and media-driven founder amplification.

Seed-stage investor backing European/Israeli deep‑tech founders; makes 4–8 high‑conviction bets yearly, often sole first‑round backer, using US offices, immigration counsel and advisory network to crack the US market.

Solo GP acting as the first institutional check for science-led consumer startups with ≥12 months of technical defensibility, prioritizing underrepresented technical founders (≈80% portfolio).

Seed-stage fund founded by Ramtin Naimi whose boom-bust-resurgence background runs an institutionalized super-angel network that orchestrates targeted introductions to top multi-stage funds, boosting Series A graduation.

Early-to-growth investor specializing in infrastructure-focused, cross‑vertical applied AI for physical-world and life‑science problems, offering deep health‑tech and healthcare-systems expertise bridging regulated care and frontier deep‑tech across US and APAC.

Early-stage investor writing $1–25M checks, operating as a tiny, operator-led team (founder Jack Altman) that maintains direct founder relationships and is a preferred AI/software co-investor with Sequoia and Y Combinator.

Hardtech VC focused on hardware-heavy industrial systems (autonomous cargo, robotic farms, solid-oxide fuel cells), acting as a patient, technically literate partner for capex-heavy, long‑horizon decarbonization bets.

Efficiently gets founders priority introductions to deeptech VCs by explaining your startup after a deck review and connects you with deeptech angel founders, including the CEOs of Solugen and Astranis.

Industrial Tech, MedTech and Food & AgriTech focus; science‑heavy team (physics, chemistry, engineering), has led large European deep‑tech financings, can commit up to €50m and anchors Dutch/Benelux ecosystem.

Hands-on co-developer for Northern European deeptech climate startups in advanced and biomanufacturing—from university spin-out to scale-up—providing technical and operational support, shaping commercial strategy via industrially embedded partners, one-company-at-a-time commitment.

Early-stage venture firm investing in startups worldwide, distinguished by its global investment scope.

Invests from napkin-stage through IPO using an evergreen own-capital model for patient, flexible long-term support; active early-stage investor (~180 deals) focused on deep bio and frontier software/crypto.

Focuses on top founders building exciting, innovative companies for Earth and beyond.

Invests across startups to public markets, using data-science-driven automated systems for thousands of small bets while its founder makes concentrated billion-dollar plays in regulated sectors like healthcare and climate.

Intense military-style residency in El Segundo for hard-tech, defense-focused founders aligned with conservative patriotism, religion, and family values, offering rigorous training and top defense‑tech network access.

Partnering with 20+ global conglomerates and billionaire industrial families, focusing on heavy-industry technologies—decarbonization, synthetic biology, aerospace, advanced nuclear, geothermal, industrial AI, defense—and offering founders direct commercial and distribution pathways.

Invests pre-seed or earlier (80%+), focusing on biological platforms and applied robotics; writes $500K–$1M checks, often leads rounds, and offers operator expertise plus PhD-led research productization.

Solo GP fund backing founders solving hard problems ("Hard Tech") with inception-stage capital. The team looks for Proven Talent, but Unproven Founders – operators with evidence of outlier success who have yet to realize their full entrepreneurial potential.

Early-stage investor focused on military veteran founders, leveraging veteran-operator leadership, conferences, events, research and an integrated content/media stack to deliver outsized brand and distribution advantages.

Mission-driven Dallas venture platform that backs founders tackling meaningful problems, offering structured portfolio support through a dedicated Head of Platform, distinct from coastal impact and standalone VC funds.

First-check pre-seed investor targeting non-traditional and immigrant founders in America's heartland, sourcing at scale (~300 LinkedIn messages/week, ~1,500 first calls/year) and offering structured mentorship, investor introductions, and hands-on operator support.