Entities

ABILITY Neurotech SA, Wyss Center spin-off developing investigational ABILITY/ABALON neural interfaces. CEO/co-founder Rotem Kopel. Company reported $7M secured at spinout; $40M fundraising target and $50M prior programme R&D are not closed company equity rounds.

Neurotechnology business/group encompassing ANT Neuro bv and ANT Neuro GmbH within neuromotion, with related developer eemagine. Supplies EEG and neuroscience systems. Martijn Schreuder leads the operating companies; reported revenue is not funding.

Abbott Laboratories, public healthcare company (NYSE ABT). Its Neuromodulation business includes Infinity and Liberta RC DBS and NeuroSphere programming. Robert B. Ford is parent chairman/CEO; this business is not an independent BCI startup.

Axoft Inc., clinical-stage developer of ultrasoft implantable neural interfaces and Fleuron materials. CEO/co-founder Paul Le Floch. Disclosed seed $8M and April 2026 Series A $55M total $63M across those rounds; unrelated to similarly named software companies.

Bit&Brain Technologies S.L., University of Zaragoza spin-off developing EEG and human-monitoring hardware/software. Founded by Maria Lopez-Valdes and Javier Minguez. Offers Diadem, Hero, Versatile and Elevvo; New York office also listed.

Boston Scientific Corporation is a global medical-technology manufacturer founded in 1979 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as BSX. Headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, it develops devices and therapies for cardiovascular, neurological, urological, digestive, respiratory and oncological diseases. Its neuroscience businesses include Vercise deep brain stimulation, WaveWriter spinal cord stimulation and other interventional pain and peripheral-nerve therapies. Device regulatory clearances and approvals are product- and indication-specific; its corporate pipeline is not universally approved. Its corporate venture investment activity is branded Boston Scientific Ventures and backs innovative medical solutions from research through commercialization worldwide. The company’s own site reports more than USD1 billion cumulatively invested in over 70 companies since 2012 and over 40 active holdings; this is deployment across a corporate portfolio, not a single externally raised venture fund. Boston Scientific frequently acquires former venture holdings. Direct issuer financing identifies the corporation as Enspire DBS Therapy’s USD2.5 million strategic investor, disclosed in January 2017; the exact investment closing date is unknown. The retained corporate Company identity and older management affiliations are preserved, while balance-sheet debt issuance is distinguished from venture investing and acquisition consideration.

Neurotechnology group founded by Han Bicheng, with Zhejiang Strong Brain Technology and US BrainCo Inc. operations. Offers EEG products and EMG/bionic prosthetics. Group legal ownership needs further mapping; R&D funding claims are not an equity-round ledger.

Prosthetics business operated under the BrainRobotics brand by BrainPortfolio Inc., per July 2026 terms. Develops bionic prostheses, including Kneuro knee; historical hand work uses EMG. Historical BrainCo relationship does not prove current ownership; do not copy BrainCo financing.

CereGate GmbH, private neurotechnology business encoding information through existing neuromodulation implants. Founder Balint Varkuti; current managing director/CEO Matthias Puls. Exact incorporation year remains unverified.

Cognixion develops assistive communication technology that combines brain-computer interfaces, biological sensors and augmented reality. Its products aim to help people with complex speech and movement disabilities interact with digital systems and communicate.

Compumedics Limited, public Australian medical-device company (ASX CMP), founded by David Burton. Supplies Neuroscan EEG, OrionMEG, sleep diagnostics and blood-flow systems. Listed in 2000; revenue and market capitalization are not financing rounds.

CorTec GmbH, private developer and contract manufacturer of implantable neurotechnology including investigational Brain Interchange recording/stimulation. Current CEO Frank Desiere; co-founder/CTO Martin Schuttler. Keep EIC grants separate from equity.

g.tec medical engineering GmbH, private developer of EEG/BCI hardware and software including g.USBamp, g.HIamp and recoveriX. Founded by Christoph Guger and Gunter Edlinger. Corporate financing totals undisclosed; institutional research grants are not automatically company capital.

Gestala (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd., registered September 2025 and publicly launched January 2026. Developing ultrasound brain-computer interfaces. Founder/CEO Phoenix Peng. Official July financing headline/body disagree (RMB430M versus RMB420M); retain the discrepancy.

IDUN Technologies AG, ETH Zurich spin-off developing in-ear EEG sensing and the Guardian platform. Founded by Simon Bachmann and Severine Gisin (formerly Chardonnens). CHF12M total and shipment claims remain unverified.

Kandu Inc., formed from the 2025 merger of Kandu Health and Neurolutions, combining stroke care and IpsiHand rehabilitation. Current CEO Leo Petrossian. April 2025 release announced first close of a $30M financing; amount actually received at first close is unspecified.

Private neurotechnology company founded by Bryan Johnson, developing noninvasive optical brain measurement, Flow and BrainAge/Cognition Trackers. Distinct from eatkernel.com and crypto KernelDAO. Ryan Field departed August 28, 2026; successor CEO is unverified.

mBrainTrain LLC Belgrade, Serbian commercial mobile EEG supplier, maker of Smarting. CEO/co-founder Ivan Gligorijevic, CTO Bogdan Mijovic. Eleven-backed; investment and Serbian Innovation Fund grant amounts undisclosed.

Current 株式会社メルティンMMI, incorporated August 8, 2024, corporate number 2010001247406. Robotics/body-augmentation business. Separate from closed 2013 predecessor; historical funding is not current-company financing. MELTz business transferred to FrontAct in June 2024.

Closed historical 株式会社メルティンMMI, corporate number 7012401024371, founded July 19, 2013. Raised the 2018 Series B; do not attribute that round to the 2024 corporation with the same name. MELTz business transferred to FrontAct in June 2024.

MindMaze Therapeutics Holding SA, public successor listed on SIX as MMTX. Formed through the December 2025 Relief Therapeutics/NeuroX business combination following transfer of strategic MindMaze assets. Zach Henderson is current CEO; historical MindMaze funding is separate.

Neurotechnology business with current parent 博睿康技术（上海）股份有限公司 and Changzhou origins. Supplies commercial EEG/neuroscience products and develops NEO interfaces. NEO’s Shanghai medical-device registrant is a related, distinct entity. Founders Xu Honglai and Huang Xiaoshan. IPO fundraising target is not proceeds.

Public medical-device company (Nasdaq NPCE), maker of the RNS System for drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Incorporated in 1997; some operating histories use 1999. Joel Becker became CEO in July 2023.

NeuroSky Inc., noninvasive EEG/biosensor component and device supplier, maker of MindWave. Founder Stanley Yang is chairman in March 2026 sources; historical CEO title should not be assumed current. Founding year is not primary-confirmed.

Historical Neurolutions Inc., originating in Eric Leuthardt’s Washington University laboratory, developer of IpsiHand EEG-controlled stroke rehabilitation. Merged with Kandu Health in 2025 to form Kandu Inc.; now an endorsed business brand. Successor financing is not Neurolutions financing.

Neurotechnology UAB, private Lithuanian company developing biometrics and neural-interface products. BrainAccess is its EEG/BCI brand launched in 2019, not a separate startup. Company discloses sole ownership by Algimantas Malickas.

Public medical-device company ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext ONWD), developing spinal-cord stimulation and ARC therapies. ARC-EX approvals differ from investigational ARC-IM and ARC-BCI. Lausanne is an office/scientific origin, not current sole HQ; unrelated to Onward fintech.

Open-source biosensing company founded by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, offering EEG/EMG/ECG hardware including Cyton, Ultracortex and Galea. Rewards crowdfunding is separate from equity financing.

Public medical-device company (ASX SLD since December 2025), developer of Evoke closed-loop spinal-cord stimulation and EVA sensing/programming for pain. Mike Mathias is current CEO; this is spinal stimulation, not a brain implant.

上海主动科技有限公司, invasive BCI developer spun out of Lingang Laboratory, associated with the Tianshu 1024-channel system. Investor confirms Jia Jing CTO; legal details and CEO rely partly on secondary registry/reporting. Official domain and company portrait remain unverified.

Private developer of investigational nanoparticle-based non-surgical NanoBCI technology. Publicly launched February 2025; no longer stealth. CEO Tetiana Aleksandrova. Disclosed seed financing comprises $17M plus a $10M extension, totaling $27M.

Private EEG hardware company founded and led by Walid Soussou, supplying dry-electrode and hybrid EEG/fNIRS research systems. Exact legal suffix and founding year are unverified; no disclosed financing total established.

New York attorney, angel investor, and founder of Cytowski & Partners. Advises startups, venture investors, and European founders entering the US market. An early investor in ElevenLabs.

Chief Scientist at OpenAI, appointed in May 2024 after serving as Director of Research. Joined OpenAI in 2017 and led work on GPT-4, OpenAI Five, large-scale reinforcement learning, and deep learning optimization. Holds a PhD in theoretical computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (2016), where his research focused on fast algorithms for high-dimensional convex optimization.

Creator and leader of Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase. Previously led consumer engineering at Coinbase, working on Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. Earlier founded Clef and worked as an engineer at BuzzFeed. Also develops open-source software.

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square, known for concentrated, research-driven investments and active engagement with portfolio companies. Previously co-founded Gotham Partners and worked in real-estate investment banking. Executive chairman of Howard Hughes Holdings and co-trustee of the Pershing Square Foundation, whose philanthropy includes health, medicine and neuroscience. Holds a Harvard MBA and undergraduate degree. In August 2026, announced plans for the Ackman Oxman Institute, focused on brain research, rehabilitation, BCI development and longevity, with venture funding for translating research into patient-facing technologies.

Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern. His official biography also lists roles as Senior Economic Strategist at Hudson Bay Capital and Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team. An economist focused on international finance, macroeconomic risk and geopolitics, he previously served at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the US Treasury. Holds a Harvard PhD and has written extensively on financial crises and global economic risks.

OpenAI co-founder and Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation, appointed in March 2026. Works on AI safety, alignment and society's preparedness for advanced AI. Previously led OpenAI teams working on robotics, code generation, language models and human data, with contributions to Codex, GPT-4 and reasoning models. Earned a PhD at NYU with Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.

Independent AI researcher and educator producing technical and general-audience courses on neural networks and large language models. A founding member of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer-vision team. Returned to OpenAI in 2023–2024 to build a team working on midtraining and synthetic data. Earned his Stanford PhD with Fei-Fei Li and designed and taught Stanford's CS231n deep-learning course.

Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Managing Partner at AI Aspire, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, and co-founder and chairman of Coursera. An adjunct professor at Stanford, he previously led Google Brain, served as Baidu's chief scientist, and directed the Stanford AI Lab. His work spans machine learning, online education and creating AI companies. Holds a UC Berkeley PhD in computer science.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency platform serving consumers, institutions and developers. Leads the company's work on crypto adoption, economic freedom and financial infrastructure. Writes publicly about Coinbase's strategy, decentralization and building an AI-native company. A speaker in the Network State community. Distinct from Bryan Johnson, the Blueprint and Kernel founder.

Co-founder and partner at Gigafund; professionally known as Luke Nosek. Co-founded PayPal, where he was VP of Marketing and Strategy, and later co-founded Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery. Led Founders Fund's first SpaceX investment in 2008 and has served on SpaceX's board. Also associated with boards including Last Energy, ResearchGate and Luminous Computing. Focuses on backing ambitious companies over long horizons.

CEO and co-founder of Flourish, developing energy-efficient AI, and a venture partner at Lux Capital. A computational neuroscientist with a Columbia PhD, he co-founded CTRL-labs, acquired by Meta in 2019, and led research on non-invasive neuromotor interfaces using surface EMG. Earlier initiated Microsoft's Internet Explorer project and served as Openwave CTO. Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper on generic neuromotor interfaces for human-computer interaction; joined Columbia's board of trustees in September 2026.

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, and leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. An investigator at the McGovern Institute, he develops tools to analyze and repair neural circuits. Co-invented optogenetic control of neurons and helped develop expansion microscopy and non-invasive brain stimulation methods. Earned his neuroscience PhD at Stanford. Co-founded the Mindspan Institute in 2026 to scale human brain analysis technologies.

Postdoctoral scholar in Stanford's Department of Neurosurgery and Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory; also publishes as Erin M. Kunz. Completed a Stanford PhD in electrical engineering, advised by Krishna Shenoy and Jaimie Henderson and co-advised by Scott Linderman. Works on machine learning and statistical models for BCI decoding, particularly speech and handwriting. Previously a controls engineer in automated and autonomous driving at General Motors. Co-first author of the 2023 Nature paper A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis.

CNRS researcher at École Normale Supérieure, currently seconded to Meta AI, where he leads the Brain & AI team. Studies the neural and computational basis of intelligence and language using deep learning with MEG, EEG, electrophysiology and fMRI. His research includes Brain2Qwerty, which decodes typed sentences from non-invasive brain recordings, and models linking speech and language processing in the brain to artificial neural networks.

Brown University neuroscientist and BrainGate pioneer; became professor emeritus in July 2026 after a 42-year career at Brown and continues working on BrainGate. Previously Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and professor of engineering. Helped establish intracortical brain-computer interfaces that allow people with paralysis to control computers and assistive devices, and built Brown's brain science research program. His work focuses on restoring communication and voluntary movement through neural interfaces.

Head of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and director of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center. Leads the Bioelectronics Group, developing multifunctional fibers and magnetic nanomaterials for recording and modulating the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system. Earned her MIT PhD in 2009, completed postdoctoral work at Stanford, and joined MIT's faculty in 2011.

Co-founder and Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet, as listed on Google's current author profile. AI researcher with a background in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, including research on memory and imagination and postdoctoral work at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Co-led the development of AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. DeepMind's work includes AlphaGo and neuroscience-inspired machine learning.

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford and co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory. Also publishes as Francis R. Willett. Develops brain-computer interfaces for communication and movement after paralysis, including handwriting decoding and large-vocabulary speech decoding. Earned a PhD in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, then worked at Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist before joining the faculty in 2025. Co-first author of the 2023 Nature paper A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis.

Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC Davis and co-director of the UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab with David Brandman. A neuroscientist and neural engineer working across systems neuroscience, computation and AI, he develops implanted brain-computer interfaces to restore communication after paralysis. His work includes speech decoding and expressive voice synthesis for people with ALS, with longer-term interests in language disorders and high-channel-count neural interfaces.

Professor of AI and robotics at UC Berkeley and an Amazon Scholar. Directs Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab and co-directs the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. Co-founded Covariant and Gradescope and is an investment partner at AIX Ventures. His research spans reinforcement learning, imitation learning, robotic control and foundation models, with contributions including TRPO, MAML and hindsight experience replay. Holds a Stanford PhD in computer science. His main expertise is AI and robotics rather than clinical neurology or EEG.

Founder of Network School, author of The Network State and technology investor. Former CTO of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Co-founded Earn.com, Counsyl, Teleport and Coin Center; his background combines entrepreneurship, crypto infrastructure and genomics research. Holds Stanford degrees including a PhD in electrical engineering. Hosts the Network State podcast, including an interview with Bryan Johnson.

A Ukrainian-American early-stage venture firm founded in 2021 that invests $50,000–$200,000 in Ukrainian and CEE-founded startups expanding into US and EU markets.

Zero Prime Ventures is a pre-seed/seed venture capital fund that writes first checks into deeply technical engineer-founders building the infrastructure, platforms, and applications behind AI and data technologies. Founded by Pete Soderling, the firm is based in San Francisco and backs day-zero engineer-led startups.

The venture arm associated with XTX Markets, backing technical founders from seed through Series B and beyond across AI infrastructure, healthcare, enterprise software, financial markets and physical-world applications.

A London-based, cross-Atlantic climate and deep-tech venture firm backing pre-seed through Series A founders who combine AI, hardware, software and frontier science to rebuild physical systems.

An early-stage venture firm founded by Tomasz Tunguz that concentrates on AI, modern data infrastructure and Web3 businesses shaped by technological discontinuities.

Taiwania Capital is a Taiwanese venture capital firm founded in 2017 by the National Development Fund of the Executive Yuan and private enterprises. It manages multiple sector-focused funds investing in early to growth-stage technology and biotech startups across Taiwan, the U.S., Japan, and Southeast Asia.

A founders-for-founders early-stage technology fund for the Adria region, investing across B2B SaaS, marketplaces, consumer apps and innovative direct-to-consumer products.

A San Francisco venture and advisory firm founded in 2018 for applied AI, investing from core compute infrastructure through vertical AI experiences at seed and Series A.

A London AI research lab and venture fund that uses systematic strategies to invest $100,000–$200,000 in pre-seed and seed companies across Europe and North America.

A Europe-rooted deep-tech firm founded by Rick Hao that backs a deliberately concentrated portfolio from day zero across batteries, AI, robotics, materials, novel computing and semiconductors.

A founder-led early-stage investor backing AI-native European B2B and B2B2C teams, with first checks up to $500,000 and a positive bias toward CEE founders.

Attribution label for Micah Smurthwaite's investing activity. Seedcamp identifies him as a Pipeline Ventures partner on2025-02-06; historicalNext47 affiliation and personalangel investments require separate ownership. A legalPipeline fund entity, fundsize and institutionalmandate remain unverified.

A European pre-seed investor-operator led by Raph G. that focuses on everyday finance and adjacent trust-sensitive categories while providing strategic communications support.

A Prague- and Luxembourg-based pre-seed and seed investor, formerly Nation 1 VC, focused mainly on technology startups in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and wider CEE.

A Warsaw seed-stage venture firm backing European technologies in energy, industry and resilience, generally investing €0.5M–€2M initially.

A New York growth investor founded in 2021 that provides $10M–$75M of flexible capital plus operational and M&A support to software, fintech, digital-infrastructure, healthcare-IT and services companies.

A London early-stage venture firm founded in 2015 that makes high-conviction pre-seed and seed investments and gives backed founders a share of the fund's carry through its equitable-venture model.

Ipex Capital is a historical UK venture investor and technology company builder demerged from PA Consulting in June 2008. Its strategy was to source nascent intellectual property, fund proof-of-concept development and recruit teams to commercialize successful projects, providing capital together with commercial, accounting, legal, recruitment and HR support. Its investments included early-stage healthcare and technology businesses. Current investment availability and a current team are unverified: Asset Match documents the Ipex Fund’s wind-down and disposal of its Plaquetec holdings in 2020, while Companies House records dissolution of IPEX CAPITAL GP LLP on 5 October 2021. These records do not establish cessation of every related entity.

Technology venture investment brand within JIMCO, the Jameel family investment arm. Evergreen capital backs emerging technology directly and through other funds, across mobility, energy, semiconductors, fintech and AI/software. The official strategy primarily describes non-health sectors but also mentions digital health.

LSE-listed science and technology investor using permanent balance-sheet capital alongside separately managed third-party funds. Backs HealthTech, DeepTech and CleanTech from company formation through scale-up; subsidiary and managed-fund transactions require separate attribution.

Susa-family pre-seed and seed investor in deep technology and strategically important physical industries, including manufacturing, robotics, chips, biotech, climate, energy, defence and aerospace. Historical 2022 scout/supportive mandate was broader.

FORWARD.one is a European venture capital firm dedicated to industrial technology, founded in 2017 and based in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. The firm invests in early-stage companies in semiconductors, climate tech, robotics, and hardware, combining entrepreneurial, engineering, and financial expertise to turn breakthrough technologies into market leaders. Current Fund III enters pre-seed through Series A across Europe, emphasizing Benelux, DACH and Nordics, with substantial follow-ons.

Ukraine-born early-stage venture firm investing in globally ambitious teams with Ukrainian roots, focused on AI, SaaS, marketplaces, fintech and healthcare.

Palo Alto venture investor focused on AI and cybersecurity, backing Ukrainian founders globally at pre-seed through Series A according to its founders’ September2025 interview. Earlier partner investment history is separate from current Dnipro portfolio.

Portuguese investor from the Critical Software ecosystem, investing worldwide from Seed through Series B in proprietary software for critical systems, governance, reliability and security. Separate from US student investor critical.vc.

Cortical Ventures is an AI-focused venture capital firm founded in 2021 by operators with deep AI/ML experience. It invents, incubates, and invests in early-stage companies driving the AI revolution, with emphasis on Physical AI, production-ready AI systems, and AI for Good. Current official strategy leads pre-seed and seed; prior Series A/B follow-ons do not imply general late-stage entry.

Climate technology investor founded in2017, entering pre-seed and seed across Europe and the US, with follow-on participation in later financings.

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) is the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, investing in innovative deep-tech startups worldwide in areas such as AI, energy efficiency, electrification, and healthcare systems. Its sixth fund of approximately €250 million ($270 million) supports early-stage and scaleup deeptech firms globally.

Early-stage investing organization associated with Web3 and decentralized infrastructure. Its website confirms early-stage investing; company announcements name it in SpaceComputer, Pluralis and Opacity financings. A conventional LP/GP venture-fund structure, legal fund vehicle, fund size and check policy are not publicly verified in the primary sources reviewed. Baseline London location and Vangelis affiliation remain unverified historical profile claims.

blisce/ is a B Corp certified venture capital firm founded by Alexandre Mars, investing from early to IPO across the US and Europe. Headquartered in Paris and New York, it backs founders reshaping industries with missions that matter, with a focus on consumer technology, climate, and impact-driven companies.

Operator-led, remote-first venture fund backing global pre-seed and seed deep-technology teams.

Early-stage venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies and long-duration founder partnerships.

Global generalist investor founded by Idris Sami, leading concentrated rounds from inception through growth in multiple sectors. Official site names New York and San Francisco operations; historical London registered domicile and RTP support are distinct.

Bay Area venture investor founded in1996, entering early-stage consumer and enterprise companies with patient, potentially significant follow-on commitments. Distinct US manager from Swiss Altos Venture AG. Latest-known verified new vehicle is Korea Opportunity Fund7, reported fully sold April2026; current regulatory AUM remains unverified.

Venture capital firm investing exclusively in AI-first companies across frontier AI, infrastructure, autonomy, defense technology, and TechBio.

3VC is a European venture capital group that invests in a carefully handpicked group of European technology startups with global ambition. Focusing on Series A, 3VC’s entrepreneurial team provides tireless support and access to an international co-investment network of VC partners. 3VC’s backs category-defining companies like Assaia, Kaia Health,Lokalise, Picsart, Storyblok, and Tatum.

University of Oxford spinout developing AI-powered imaging biomarkers and clinical decision software for stroke, lung fibrosis, and life-sciences clinical development.

Precision-neurology company developing an AI-powered Digital NeuroMarker platform that analyzes augmented-reality tasks, motion, speech, and touch signals for cognitive assessment and CNS trials.

Clinical neuroscience company, formerly BrainWaveBank, developing NeuLogiq: an at-home dry-EEG headset, cognitive assessments, and AI-derived digital biomarkers for CNS trials.

Precision-neurology software company integrating electrophysiology, brain imaging, implanted-device, wearable, and clinical data for neurological care, biomarkers, and CNS therapy development.

Neurotechnology company spun out of Alphabet's X developing dry-contact in-ear EEG earbuds and cloud analytics for sleep, seizure detection, focus, and closed-loop brain sensing.

Digital brain-health company using multimodal cognitive assessments, neuroscience, and AI for early detection and longitudinal monitoring of cognitive impairment and neurological disease.

Neurotechnology company developing Enobio wireless EEG and Starstim systems that combine EEG monitoring with personalized non-invasive electrical brain stimulation.

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L., private clinical-stage developer of graphene-based bidirectional neural interfaces and neuromodulation. Investigational products. Carolina Aguilar is CEO/co-founder; founding accounts differ between 2019 and 2020.

Neurotechnology company formerly Blackrock Microsystems, developing Utah/NeuroPort recording systems and the MoveAgain BCI. Tether became majority stakeholder in April 2024; the $200M control transaction is distinct from ordinary financing.

Private neural-interface company developing Layer 7 cortical-surface arrays. Its 2025 FDA clearance covers temporary use up to 30 days; a permanent paralysis-treatment BCI remains investigational. Company reported $430M cumulative capital in September 2026.

A global technology investment platform founded in 1982 with seed, venture, Africa, growth and impact strategies and offices in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Milan and San Francisco.

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the platform and community for sharing and building machine-learning models, datasets and applications. Leads its work on open AI collaboration and commercial partnerships that make models and infrastructure accessible to researchers and developers. Publishes as Clem on Hugging Face, where his interests include multimodal models, time series, biology and chemistry.

Early-stage venture firm led by AI practitioners and focused on companies developing industry-changing artificial intelligence.

Leads compute at Meta and is an early-stage technology investor, often alongside Nat Friedman through their NFDG partnership. Co-founded Safe Superintelligence and previously co-founded Cue, acquired by Apple in 2013. Ran AI and search projects at Apple from 2013 to 2017 and later served as a Y Combinator partner, starting its AI program. His investments span AI, developer infrastructure and enterprise software.

AI product leader at Meta and technology investor, known for co-founding NFDG with Daniel Gross. Previously CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021 and co-founder of Xamarin and Ximian. Supports scientific projects including the Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient Herculaneum scrolls and PlasticList's testing of chemicals in food. Serves on the Arc Institute board.

Venture investor backing early-stage companies in finance, industry and computing infrastructure.

6 Degrees Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in London and Antwerp, investing in startups from Seed to Series B across Fintech, Enterprise Software, and AI. The firm partners with outlier founders, providing capital and hands-on strategic support.

ETF Partners is a London-based venture capital firm investing in cutting-edge companies across Europe that address sustainability and climate challenges through innovation. The firm's latest fund closed at €285 million in May 2024.

S32 (formerly Section 32) is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Google Ventures founder Bill Maris. The firm invests across the frontiers of technology including AI, computational biology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software, from seed to growth stages.

Silicon Badia is a global venture capital firm that partners with passionate, bold entrepreneurs to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Founded in 2012, the firm has invested in over 100 technology startups across more than 15 industries, with offices in New York and the Middle East.

BNVT Capital is a London-based global venture capital firm founded in 2023 by investors previously at the Gates Foundation, Hedosophia, and Goldman Sachs. It invests in AI-first and technology-driven companies solving major global challenges, guided by a 'Benevolent Disruption' thesis.

Force Over Mass Capital is a London venture-capital manager focused on B2B technology, including artificial intelligence, fintech, SaaS and industrial deep technology. Its legal entity is the active UK Force Over Mass Capital LLP, OC389516, incorporated November27,2013 and formerly named Force Over Mass LLP until December11,2013. The firm publishes FCA reference613706. Founder and chief executive Martijn de Wever is also founder of the separate Floww private-market infrastructure platform; these legal entities and their capital are not merged. Companies House records Martijn and Leonie France van Hofwegen as the two current designated LLP members, while the public firm site names only Martijn in its operating leadership narrative. Older investor records for Arjun Kandola, Lucas Stoops and Wouter Volckaert are retained with source-qualified historical affiliations. Current seed and growth offerings target early B2B companies and later institutional rounds; advertised index funds are upcoming. The firm publishes no verified current fund closing corpus, exact subscriber vehicle or closing date for those product labels. Its retained historical Force Over Mass IV record remains unknown in amount and is based on the existing secondary database evidence. Existing portfolio evidence includes industrial AI, sensor analytics, machine-learning infrastructure and mental-health virtual reality; OxfordVR’s 2018 financing names Force Over Mass as a participant, but the issuer owner records that financing separately. Public investment totals and investee cash must not be treated as manager fund size. All pre-existing investment, private-note, fund and personal-attribution records are preserved.

Mercuri is an early-stage venture capital fund and first-cheque investor leading pre-seed and seed funding rounds for UK media technology and AI companies. The firm was formerly known as GMG Ventures and is a certified B Corp based in London.

BBQ Capital is a San Francisco venture investor that writes first checks and backs founders from the beginning of their companies. It invests across consumer, enterprise, deep technology and other sectors, with a community that began through San Francisco backyard gatherings in 2018. Its portfolio includes companies developing robotics, biotechnology, cybersecurity and AI products.

A first-check venture firm founded by Alexander Lange in 2019 that backs hard technologies and hard-to-underwrite markets, especially compute, cryptography, robotics, defense and space, with initial checks generally from $0.5M to $2M.

Samsung Catalyst Fund is Samsung Electronics' multi-stage evergreen venture capital fund that invests in deep-tech infrastructure, AI, and data-enabled platforms. It invests globally with offices in San Jose, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Paris.

Vsquared Ventures is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on deep tech across Europe. The firm invests from pre-seed to Series A in companies tackling society's most pressing challenges, with emphasis on AI, energy transition, new computing, space, robotics, and techbio.

Audacious Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Nakul Mandan, based in San Francisco. The firm partners with ambitious technology founders at the pre-seed and seed stages, offering hands-on operational support including recruiting and go-to-market assistance.

Entourage is a Ghent-based early-stage VC firm and venture studio founded in 2024 by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten. It backs and builds high-growth B2B SaaS and software companies, operating through Entourage Capital for direct investments and Entourage Studio for company building.

Future Energy Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in digital and asset-light energy technologies to accelerate the global energy transition. It was formed in 2020 after the merger of E.ON and Innogy, combining both companies' CVC portfolios into an independent VC platform.

ICONIQ Capital is a hybrid family office and global investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, managing over $100B in assets under management. It provides wealth management, private equity, venture capital, growth equity, real estate, and philanthropic services, with its ICONIQ Growth platform investing in technology companies from product-market fit through IPO and beyond.

An inception-stage venture firm launched in 2024 that backs deeply technical founders, often with research roots, turning computing breakthroughs into companies.

Essence VC is an engineer-first, early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, founded by Timothy Chen in 2019. The firm invests in deeply technical founders building developer tools, data infrastructure, and AI at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Moonfire Ventures is a London-based, data-driven early-stage venture capital firm founded by former Atomico co-founder Mattias Ljungman. The firm uses proprietary AI models and machine-learning technology to identify and back pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Europe in sectors including AI, Web3, health, work, finance, and gaming.

futurepresent is a venture capital firm investing in AI platforms and infrastructure across the United States and Europe. It partners with founders at inception and makes concentrated early growth investments. Its focus includes physical AI that controls and automates real-world operations, applied AI that restructures complex and labor-constrained industries, and the infrastructure needed to advance AI. Founded in 2024 according to its public company profile, it publicly launched a $300 million Fund I in March 2026 after more than a year of investing.

Eclipse was founded with a mission to power the Industrial Evolution. Since 2015, we’ve helped entrepreneurs build exceptional companies that make physical industries more efficient, resilient, and profitable.

Telescope Partners is a thesis-driven, early growth venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building enterprise software companies. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the firm partners with B2B software companies that are post product-market fit.

Root Ventures is a San Francisco-based deep-tech seed venture capital firm run by engineers, for engineers. The firm specializes in leading initial funding rounds for technical founders tackling hard problems in areas such as applied AI, robotics, hardware, developer tools, and climate tech.

Cantos is a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm that backs deeply technical founders building 'near frontier' companies across climate, biotech, aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing. The firm provides initial capital and ongoing counsel to founders tackling critical infrastructure and existential challenges.

Movens Capital is a Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital fund investing €0.25–3M in CEE (and CEE diaspora) tech companies with global potential. Founded in 2018, it focuses on AI, fintech, climate tech, enterprise software, healthcare, and e-commerce infrastructure.

PortfoLion Capital Partners is a Budapest-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2010 as the investment arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank. It manages $800M+ across multiple funds, investing from pre-seed through growth and buyout, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora.

Triple Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Triple Point Group, a London-based investment manager founded in 2004. Launched in 2018, it invests in early-stage B2B software businesses across sectors including fintech, data, AI, healthcare, vertical SaaS, and energy.

Blue Lion Global is a tech venture capital fund backing founders tackling society's largest problems, with a focus on climate, health, and inclusive finance. The firm invests at the pre-seed to Series A stages across the US and Europe.

Ibex Investors is a multi-strategy investment firm based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2003, with over $1B in assets under management. The firm invests in both public and privately held companies from pre-seed through IPO across enterprise software, cybersecurity, mobility, logistics, and manufacturing, with geographic focus on Israel and thematic focus on mobility.

MMC Ventures is a research-led venture capital firm based in London, investing in early-stage, high-growth UK technology companies at Seed and Series A. The firm focuses on enterprise AI, fintech, data-driven health, and cloud & data infrastructure.

Decibel is an early-stage venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, investing in essential infrastructure software used by developers, data engineers, and cybersecurity teams. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2019 by Jon Sakoda.

Elaia is a European venture capital manager that backs B2B technology companies from pre-seed through Series B. Its digital venture funds invest in software and technology businesses, while its dedicated deep-tech seed funds support research-based startups in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors and photonics, quantum technologies, robotics, advanced materials, energy, biotechnology, digital health and medical devices. Elaia works with research institutions including PSL and Inria to help founders commercialize scientific innovation. The Elaia brand is operated by French regulated manager Elaia Partners SAS; Lazard Elaia Capital is a separate joint venture with a distinct investment team.

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm leads seed rounds in enterprise software startups, with a focus on infrastructure, SaaS, fintech, and AI, providing hands-on operational support to help founders achieve product-market fit.

Venture Guides is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston that invests in and actively guides founders of infrastructure software, cloud, data, and security technology startups. The firm was founded by the former infrastructure software team at Bain Capital Ventures and employs a team-based, hands-on investing approach.

Zetta Venture Partners is a San Francisco venture investor backing AI-native B2B applications, infrastructure and developer tools at inception, pre-seed and seed, with selective later follow-ons. Scientific investment examples include computational biology and EnsoData EEG diagnostic analysis. Historical USD1–3m initial commitments were stated in2020; current numeric check policy has not been independently verified. Official releases describe formation in2013, while first fund launch is described as2015.

Catapult Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm investing in deep-tech startups at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, and software. Founded in 2018 by Darren Liccardo and Rouz Jazayeri, the firm focuses on AI, automation, robotics, and IoT across automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and industrial sectors.

re.Mind Capital Limited is an early-stage venture investor dedicated to mental health, brain health and human flourishing. Its public strategy spans brain-computer interfaces, personalized diagnostics and treatment selection, new pharmacology and treatment modalities, including neuromodulation, neurofeedback and digital mental healthcare. Its published portfolio includes AI-driven drug discovery, digital phenotyping, computational neuroscience, medical micro-robotics and implantable brain interfaces. The firm is part of Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron investment network, with a London office and a Maltese legal address. Its public team page names co-founders Christian Angermayer, Max de Vere and Jan Hardorp, plus investor Joao Barbosa da Silva; Katherine Jones’s separate 2023 representation is a historical affiliation. Registered vehicles include a Maltese master fund and feeder, and a July 2026 disclosed Bridge I special-purpose vehicle with USD1,012,500 fully sold. A co-investor’s historical USD150 million managed-capital description does not establish the first fund’s final close. The firm is distinct from the school communications company Remind.

Osage University Partners (OUP) is a venture capital firm that invests in science-driven startups emerging from the world's leading research labs and innovation ecosystems. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, OUP manages over $800 million and has invested in more than 150 life science and technology startups.

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Co-founder of Square (now Block), co-founder and General Partner at FINTOP Capital, and founder of FastTrials, which works to streamline clinical trials. Serves on the boards of Block and Emerson Electric. Previously founded LaunchCode, Invisibly and Third Degree Glass Factory. An entrepreneur, inventor and glass artist, he wrote The Innovation Stack about building businesses through interlocking innovations.

First Round Capital invests at angel, pre-seed and seed, often providing first outside capital before product launch or meaningful traction. The official FAQ reports an average initial investment of USD 3.5 million as accessed 2026-10-06; historical website round sizes USD100k–20m are not individual check bounds. Later rounds represent follow-on activity.

HV Capital, formerly Holtzbrinck Ventures, is a European multistage investor founded in 2000. Venture leads Seed/Series A; Growth enters Series B and beyond. Fund X Ventures and Growth exist per 2025/2026 legal disclosures, with undisclosed size. Fund IX EUR710m contemporaneous close and EUR783m current official history remain unreconciled.

Invests in AI, robotics, computing infrastructure, defense and other technology companies at both formation and growth stages. Founded by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul, the firm combines venture investing with support on consumer reach and distribution.

Amadeus Capital Partners, founded in 1997 by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser, invests seed to growth across Intelligence (AI/computing/quantum), Human (health/medicine/wellness) and Planet (sustainability/energy/materials/space). Official homepage reports over 200 companies backed and over USD1.3bn raised since inception, cumulative fundraising rather than current AUM.

Radical Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm singularly focused on artificial intelligence, backing founders leveraging AI to transform industries. Founded in 2017, it invests in early-stage and growth-stage AI startups across Canada, the US, and internationally.

Crane Venture Partners invests in foundational technology from inception through seed across Europe, North America, India and Asia-Pacific. September2026 raised USD484m across CraneIII, APACI, USI and OpportunityI. SinceJuly2025 it administers existing MassMutualVentures Europe/APAC funds and portfolio, which is distinct from original Crane investments.

Flex Capital is a seed-stage venture firm run by the founding CEOs of LiveRamp, BrightRoll, Lemonaid Health, SafeGraph, and Pipedream. The firm invests in bold, technical teams at the pre-seed and seed stages with pro-founder governance terms.

boldstart ventures is a day one partner and true believer for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders. boldstart is often the first investor working closely with technical founders at company formation and helps accelerate their path to product market fit. Areas of focus include developer first, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS. Notable first check investments include Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, Front, and Security Scorecard. Founding partner Ed Sim has over 24 years of experience as a first round investor in companies like LivePerson (LPSN), Greenplum (Pivotal Software), and GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix).

KAYA is an early-stage VC fund with roots in CEE, investing in intrepid founders across Europe since 2010.

Fly Ventures is a Berlin-based European first-check investor backing technically difficult pre-seed and seed companies, generally before product/revenue, with European diaspora founders in the US also eligible. Lead/co-lead investing and selective follow-ons are supported; EUR1–4m numeric checks are historical reporting, with no current numeric policy independently established.

Technology entrepreneur and investor who runs Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm. Co-founded Color Health and Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, where he became a vice president; previously worked on AI and mobile at Google. An early investor in numerous AI and infrastructure companies, he co-hosts No Priors and wrote High Growth Handbook. Holds an MIT PhD and has supported longevity research and companies.

Private endovascular brain-computer interface company developing the investigational Stentrode. Founded by Thomas Oxley and Nicholas Opie; operations also in Melbourne and San Diego.

Private neurotechnology company developing the investigational N1 neural implant and R1 surgical robot. SEC principal business address is Fremont; Austin operations do not establish headquarters. Current CEO title remains qualified.

Anthropic builds Claude, a family of frontier AI models used by consumers, developers, and enterprises, and does the underlying research on making highly capable systems interpretable, reliable, and steerable.

Non-invasive BCI research and product lab. Wearable consumer interface using fNIRS/neurofeedback so people can communicate with AI without surgery. Named after the land of Lys in Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night.

Dcode.AI is building the Large Brain Model (LBM), a universal EEG foundation model it says is trained on Emotiv's 15-year consumer/research EEG corpus (claimed 300,000+ hours, 150,000+ subjects, 156 countries). The product stack is Emotiv-FM: an on-device Mamba-2 U-Net (about 1-4M parameters) plus a cloud EEG-X transformer (~14M parameters), licensed as an embedded SDK, annual platform license, and usage-based API. Target users are device manufacturers, enterprise/pharma/defense platforms, developers, and researchers. Tan Le is listed as CEO and founder of both Emotiv and Dcode.AI; Geoff Mackellar as CTO and co-founder. Public scientific work cited on the site includes EEG2Rep, EEGM2, EEG-X, SAMBA, and SpellerSSL, published from Emotiv Research. The site solicits investor conversations and a deck; no announced financing round was found.

Imperial College London spinout building device-agnostic EEG decoding software that converts brainwaves into digital commands (motor imagery, attention, cognitive load) without per-user calibration. Products include CogiGame for thought-controlled VR stroke rehabilitation and CogiSense for real-time cognitive monitoring. Winner of the NeurIPS 2021 BEETL EEG transfer-learning competition.

Private EEG hardware/software company, maker of EPOC X, Insight, EPOC Flex and Cortex. Current company traces founding to 2011, distinct from earlier Emotiv Systems history. Conflicting CTO announcements and unverified inbound funding totals remain qualified.

AI-driven brain-health insights and FDA-cleared Waveband home EEG.

Private developer of noninvasive dry-EEG sensing and AI in everyday wearables, including MW75 Neuro headphones and a licensing platform. Company reported $65M total in December 2025; source round labels are retained.

Arctop builds hardware-agnostic brain-computer interface software that decodes consumer EEG from headphones, earbuds, and glasses into real-time metrics such as attention, cognitive load, and enjoyment. The company licenses an SDK and API layer to developers rather than selling proprietary sensors or reconstructing thoughts.

Piramidal builds a foundation model for the brain trained on EEG, with a first clinical product in ICU / continuous EEG interpretation. The bet is a general brain model that transfers across people and devices.

Israeli NeuroAI company building Descartes, a six-billion-parameter frontier foundation model that translates non-invasive EEG and behavioral data into quantitative clinical insights. A patient wears a dry-electrode EEG headset for about 15 minutes while completing tablet or phone tasks. The company says Descartes was trained on more than 250,000 hours of multimodal data from over 100,000 participants collected through a global research network spanning Asia, Israel, and Boston. First applications target PTSD, mild traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's. Co-founded by CEO Dr. Hagai Lalazar and CTO Gidi Littwin. Emerged from stealth in July 2026 with $52 million in disclosed early-stage funding.

Foundation models for non-invasive neural decoding. Reconstructs objects/images and early thought-to-text from EEG, with a Human Mind API and headset on a waitlist. Founded 2025 by Priyanka Jain (CEO) and Ingo Marquardt (CTO).

CIV is a venture capital firm that backs and builds transformative technology companies reshaping critical industries, including energy transition, advanced manufacturing, industrial automation, and digital infrastructure. Founded by Patrick Maloney, Jeff Rosenthal, and Abhijoy Mitra, CIV operates from Venice Beach, California and closed its inaugural fund (CIV Fund One) at over $210 million.

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused, pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Orinda, California. The firm leads a founder's initial round of financing, investing $500K to $1.5M in areas including intelligent applications, commerce infrastructure, the new perimeter, and climate.

10x Founders is a network-driven European early-stage venture capital firm backed by over 200 entrepreneurs and angels. Based in Munich, it employs an 'Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur' investment platform supporting ambitious founders building category-leading companies, with a focus on Europe and the US.

Point Nine is a thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm. We’re a small equal partnership, based in Europe, investing globally in AI for the digital, physical and biological world. At any given time, each of our four partners works closely with 6-8 companies. We invest $1-10 million per company, working alongside exceptional founders to accelerate their learning, provide unfair shortcuts, and help them realize their potential. Since 2008 the partnership has invested in 10-12 early-stage startups per year; 17 of them have surpassed $100M ARR. Notable early bets include Algolia, Chainalysis, Clio, Contentful, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, Factorial, Loom, Revolut, Typeform and Zendesk.

Expeditions is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in defence and dual-use deep tech companies across Europe. Backed by investors including BAE Systems and the NATO Innovation Fund, it focuses on cybersecurity, AI, quantum, autonomy, and space technologies.

Primary Venture Partners is a New York venture firm investing from inception through pre-seed and seed across financial services, healthcare, vertical AI, infrastructure and compute, cybersecurity, consumer, go-to-market technology and industrial technology, with founders from San Francisco to Tel Aviv.

Founder Collective is a sector-agnostic pre-seed and seed venture investor based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York, leading and participating in early financings.

TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, investing globally in early-stage deeptech startups from Seed to Series B. Its latest fund, Fund 3, is a $150 million commitment focused on energy, computing, health, agriculture, mobility, robotics, industrial systems, and advanced materials.

The General Partnership (TheGP) is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that combines capital investment with a 'sweat equity' model, embedding a team of 25+ full-time engineers, recruiters, designers, and sales leaders into portfolio companies. The firm invests at the formation (pre-seed/seed) and breakout (series A) stages across enterprise software, fintech, developer tools, cybersecurity, healthcare, and AI.

Faber is a Lisbon-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in teams transforming the world with frontier technology, with a focus on deep tech across AI/ML, climate and ocean tech, robotics, and biotech. The firm targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Southern Europe.

Learn Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 that backs seed, early-stage and growth companies developing education and human capabilities. It invests in AI-powered and personalized learning, digital education, workforce training and career advancement, supporting businesses that connect learning with employment and well-being. LearnStart is its independently managed pre-seed and seed investing arm. Its investment and impact teams assess both commercial growth and measurable educational and societal outcomes.

RTP Global is a global, early-stage venture capital firm backing ambitious founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works. Founded in 2000 by Leonid Boguslavsky as ru-Net, the firm has backed generational companies including Datadog, Delivery Hero, and Cred.

Playground is an early-stage investment firm that helps old and new investors and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI. It focuses on investment, innovation, connected hardware, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Playground was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Technology venture firm founded in 2020, historically investing from pre-seed through Series B across Europe and the US. Its dated January 2022 announcement reports USD400m Fund II. December 2025 reporting describes a restructuring of the legacy flagship funds and separate Global Opportunities responsibility; current new-investment availability and mandate across those vehicles require confirmation. Historical strategy is retained with this limitation.

London institutional angel investor operating the PV Angel Fund and SPVs. The current official site specifies GBP 200k–500k checks in fintech and B2B software, pre-seed through Series A. Its showcased companies combine fund and personal angel track records; a homepage listing alone does not identify the legal investing vehicle. The GBP 100k historical lower bound comes from 2022 reporting.

Acurio Ventures, formerly All Iron Ventures, is a Bilbao-based European generalist venture firm investing from pre-seed through Series B, with selective follow-ons. Its strategy generally excludes life sciences and crypto, although the Phagos investment is independently documented.

NAP is a Berlin-based European pre-seed and seed venture-capital manager, founded as Cavalry Ventures in2016 and rebranded inFebruary2025. Its current legal manager is NAP Investment Management GmbH, Berlin Charlottenburg HRB169743B, registered as an alternative-investment-fund manager under KAGB/EuVECA. The firm focuses on expert founders applying vertical AI in manufacturing, energy, logistics, compliance, construction and healthcare. It publishes initial check guidance of EUR1–3 million, supports follow-ons, and currently lists six investment professionals and four operations professionals. Its earlier Cavalry identity and dated investments remain the same retained manager record. The two documented vehicles distinguish Cavalry Ventures II’s EUR80 million final close from Cavalry III’s EUR100 million first close against a EUR160 million launch target; a later reported final close is unresolved and no target is represented as newly closed capital. Its portfolio includes industrial AI, confidential computing, life-science software and energy technology. NAP’s current branding uses Nerds and Pioneers; unrelated Cavalry Biosciences is a separate company.

Systemiq Capital is a London-based climate-tech venture firm investing from late seed to Series A/B rounds across the UK, Europe and the US. It backs founders redefining the physical economy in areas including electrification, decoding nature, and applied AI, connecting them with a network of global business leaders, policymakers, and climate experts.

London-based technology venture investor with VCT and institutional strategies spanning European pre-seed software and AI, pre-seed/seed deeptech and life sciences, and growth opportunities. Official institutional page reports GBP 1.2 billion manager AUM (undated, accessed 2026-10-06), not a single fund. Current legal footer identifies AlbionVC LLP; historical Albion Capital manager names are retained in sourced research.

Early-stage venture investor backing technical founders in infrastructure, AI, hardware and computational biology. June 5, 2025 announcement presents USD 400m Fund VI, USD 300m VI Select follow-on fund and USD 200m Bio I separately; earliest-stage/first-check mandate with Select supporting existing companies. Historical 2014 fund and check claims are not current policy. Offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco.

Prague/Krakow venture firm founded in 2009 backing technical founders from Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora. Current mandate emphasizes pre-seed first investments before product/revenue; official website advertises USD 1m–5m checks. Historical later rounds demonstrate follow-on capacity, not new later-stage mandate.

US venture firm founded in 2024 by Ethan Kurzweil, Mark Goldberg and Kristina Shen. Current official portfolio states first check through Series B; historical October 2024 launch focused Seed/Series A software. Fund I announced USD 350m deployable capital; Fund II regulatory USD 500m offering target is not a verified close.

San Francisco seed venture investor founded in2004, historically SoftTech VC. North American seed entry with reserves and Plus vehicles for later portfolio financing. May2025 closed USD225m UncorkVIII and USD75m PlusIV separately. Dated2025 strategy describes typical/historical USD1.5m–3m+ seed checks with slightly larger checks intended forVIII; precise current policy bounds unverified.

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The firm backs technology companies across all growth and development phases, with a focus on AI, deep tech, enterprise software, fintech, and healthcare, managing €2.5 billion in assets under management.

Felix Capital is a venture capital firm for the creative class, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity. Felix Capital focuses on digital lifestyle, investing in authentic brands, platforms and related enabling software technologies. Felix Capital's mission is to support entrepreneurs with big ideas, to help them buildstrong category-leading companies that stand out and that move the world forward. The ambition to partner with the best entrepreneurs, the creative agents of change of digital lifestyle.

Generalist transatlantic venture investor founded in 1996, investing Europe/US from seed to growth. Official homepage reports USD 3.1bn+ manager AUM (undated, accessed 2026-10-06). Dated 2022 tenth fundraising EUR 1bn headline is distinct from AUM and later USD 1.2bn+ wording, without new verified close.

Redalpine is a pan-European venture capital firm with Swiss roots, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Zurich. It invests at the intersection of software and science, targeting companies from seed through growth stages across sectors including AI, biotech, fintech, energy, and health.

Technology venture firm founded in 2006, predominantly Seed/Series A according to firm portfolio statistics, with later-stage participation. Fund X USD 900m raised in June 2025 is distinct from firm-reported USD 4.1bn AUM labeled 2026. Historical through-2014 fund/check claims are not current policy. Direct historical EEG investment InteraXon/Muse is distinct from mental-health services and computational drug discovery.

Maniv Mobility is helping to expedite the new age of advanced transportation technology, including safety, business model innovation, and vehicle autonomy ("driverless cars"). They believe that in the 21st century, the public should not have to endure the daily tragedy of automotive fatalities, the frustration and productivity loss oftraffic congestion, and the polluted air and public space that slow-moving and parked cars bring to their urban centers. In the last 20 years technology has made information and communication ubiquitous and close to free. In the next 20 it will do the same for mobility. They work with start-up companies, entrepreneurs, financiers and others to overcome the hurdles that will herald a grand new age.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Frontline Ventures is a transatlantic venture capital firm that backs globally ambitious B2B software companies across Europe and the US. It operates a dual-fund strategy with Frontline Seed (early-stage in Europe) and Frontline Growth (US-Europe expansion at Series B–D stage).

Founded in 2014, Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund led by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, and is based in San Francisco, California. Collectively as a team, we have invested in over 100 companies in our careers, and have served as founders, early employees, and advisors in several pioneering technology startups.

Notion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, investing in early-stage European B2B SaaS, cloud, and AI-native business software companies, with a growth fund for later-stage follow-ons. The firm closed its latest fund, Growth Opportunities Fund III, at $130M (€114M) in 2025, bringing total assets under management to over $1bn across all funds.

European early-stage venture investor founded in 2016, principally pre-seed/seed including pre-product and pre-revenue. Official guidance EUR 500k–3m first tickets, Europe/MENA coverage and EUR 300m+ manager AUM (undated accessed 2026-10-06). Fourth fund launched2025; final close unverified, not inferred from AUM.

Global technology investment platform with flagship Fund IV (USD 250M final close, announced 2026-08-05), investing at Series A/B, alongside separate North American seed and digital-asset strategies. Verified industrial automation and physical-AI precedents; direct neurotechnology investment not verified in reviewed sources.

A multi-stage venture and growth equity investment firm backing companies across enterprise, consumer and healthcare sectors.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology withunique compute and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

Canada-anchored venture platform founded in 2007, with Discovery, Venture and Growth strategies supporting technology companies from pre-seed to pre-IPO in North America and Europe. Its official page reports USD 2.5 billion firm-wide AUM, observed 2026-10-06. Verified technical investments span robotics, semiconductors, quantum computing and diagnostic hardware. Thalmic/Myo is an EMG peripheral interface, without evidence of brain sensing.

HCVC (formerly known as Hardware Club) is a community-based early-stage venture capital firm backing hardtech and deep tech founders across Europe and North America. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Paris, the firm invests from pre-seed to Series A in sectors including robotics, AI, biotech, climate, and space.

Lakestar is a European venture capital firm that invests in visionary tech entrepreneurs from seed to growth stage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Zurich, the firm focuses on deep tech, AI, healthcare, and fintech, with a commitment to Europe's digital sovereignty and innovation ecosystem.

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, with offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. The firm primarily invests at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages in technology-driven companies across sectors including AI, fintech, consumer, climate tech, and SaaS. Notable investments include Spotify, Klarna, and Lovable.

Programmer, essayist and investor who co-founded Y Combinator with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Previously co-founded Viaweb, acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Writes extensively about startups, entrepreneurship and programming at paulgraham.com; author of Hackers & Painters and books on Lisp, and creator of the Bel programming language. Holds a Harvard PhD in computer science.

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of OpenAI, leading the company developing ChatGPT, frontier AI models and the infrastructure supporting them. Previously president of Y Combinator and co-founder of Loopt. An entrepreneur and technology investor, he writes about startups, economic growth and the long-term implications of AI on his personal blog.

London and San Francisco venture firm founded in 2025 by Ali Mitchell and Michelle Robson. Its Discovery strategy backs European pre-seed and seed companies; Access supports global Series B and later growth companies. The current portfolio includes neural-interface company Axo Neurotech and neural-implant semiconductor company MintNeuro, with investment dates and checks undisclosed. Founder history and investments at earlier firms require separate attribution.

Co-founder of Discovery Loop, launched in 2026 with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals to automate machine-learning research and scientific experimentation. Previously Google's Chief Scientist for Google Research and DeepMind and a co-founder of Google Brain, with decades of work on large-scale computing and AI infrastructure. His career includes contributions to MapReduce and Google's machine-learning systems. The current company site and August 2026 founding announcement supersede older Google biographies.

BCI company training EEG foundation models and using involuntary biosignals as reward for AI alignment (reinforcement learning from biofeedback). Building a biosignal foundation model, capture hardware, and an alignment platform for frontier-lab post-training.

Sabi Inc. is a Palo Alto neurotechnology company developing a noninvasive brain-computer interface in a wearable cap. Its founders are CEO Rahul Chhabra and CTO Atmadeep Banerjee. The company combines custom neuroimaging sensors and ASICs with AI models trained on neural recordings, aiming to translate attempted speech and neural intent into computer input. Its current website presents beanie, cap and bucket-hat formats and invites prospective users to a waitlist. Its founder describes invite-only early access; general commercial availability and clinical efficacy are not established by those announcements. Claims about the largest neural dataset or most capable brain model are company claims rather than independently established research results. Banerjee’s published neuro-AI research includes fMRI-to-image reconstruction; that research does not itself validate the performance of Sabi’s wearable EEG product. The company publicly launched from stealth in April2026 and has a Bengaluru research and operations team. Primary founder communications name Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized Capital, Kevin Weil and Seattle Ascend as backers. Total financing amount, individual allocations and closing date remain undisclosed in the verified primary announcement. Sabi’s present materials describe a consumer computing interface; no FDA clearance or approval for a medical indication is established by the reviewed company sources.

Private neural-engineering company developing PRIMA retinal prostheses, biohybrid neural interfaces and related platforms. Founded by Max Hodak, Alan Mardinly and Emma Zhou. Company reported approximately $490M invested as of March 2026.

Future Ventures invests at seed and early stages in founders developing technologies that can create new industries. Its frontier-technology interests include robotics, nuclear fusion, aerospace, AI applications in construction and medical therapeutics, sustainable agriculture and land management, and biotechnology such as women’s reproductive longevity and bee immunology. The firm pairs technical experience with long-term backing for mission-driven entrepreneurs. The current public team comprises co-founders Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko and venture capitalist Nico Enriquez. Its website also describes some investments made by its partners before Future Ventures; those earlier personal or prior-firm histories do not establish current firm holdings.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in Geneva in1996, with offices in London, San Francisco and New York. It invests from seed through growth and works with founders on recruitment, leadership, product and international expansion. Its public investment and team pages establish substantial AI and deep-tech activity, including AI model companies, enterprise AI, robotics, software for hardware, computational biology, security and infrastructure. Verified public relationships include Anthropic, Physical Intelligence, Scale AI, Mistral, Chai Discovery, Simile and Fireworks. The current public directory includes investors, portfolio strategists and operations staff; co-founder Neil Rimer is explicitly a retired partner, rather than an active investing partner. Published portfolio and product claims are source-qualified and do not imply independent clinical or technical performance validation.

OpenAI develops artificial general intelligence products including ChatGPT and the GPT model family. Khosla Ventures was the first venture firm to invest, writing a $50 million check around the 2019 OpenAI LP formation, and later raised a $405 million SPV around OpenAI's October 2024 financing.

Conduit is developing a non-invasive brain-computer interface that uses a headset and AI to complete typed sentences from a user's thoughts. The company conducts paid, in-person data collection and testing sessions at its San Francisco office.

Co-founder of World Labs, developing spatial intelligence and world models, and Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Founding co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute; previously directed Stanford's AI Lab and served as Google Cloud's chief scientist for AI/ML during a sabbatical. Known for creating ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge. Her research spans computer vision, machine learning and cognitive neuroscience.

Work-Bench is a New York City-based enterprise venture capital firm that leads Seed rounds in enterprise software, SaaS, and infrastructure startups. The firm provides founders with go-to-market support, corporate engagement, and community to help scale enterprise deals.

Upfront Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 (formerly GRP Partners) that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests roughly half its capital in Southern California, with the balance across the US, Europe, India, and Israel.

Seraphim Space is the world's leading specialist investor in SpaceTech, managing venture capital funds, a publicly listed investment trust, and an accelerator programme. Headquartered in London, it invests across the innovation lifecycle from early-stage development through to IPO.

Vienna-based European venture manager founded in 2011, with inception-to-seed investing and separate growth and regional strategies. Speedinvest 4 reached a EUR 350 million final close announced 2024-01-31; newer regional and Speedinvest V fundraising leads lack verified final amounts. Verified scientific hardware investments and ultrasound neurotechnology company NeuroHarmonics provide technical precedents. Aerska develops CNS medicines and is classified separately as neuroscience therapeutics.

OTB Ventures is a pan-European venture capital firm focused on DeepTech startups, investing primarily at the late Seed and Series A stages. Its key verticals include SpaceTech, Enterprise Automation & AI, Cybersecurity, and FinTech Infrastructure.

UK venture and accelerator platform operated by Outlier Capital LLP (OC404177). Its historical pre-seed and seed Web3 investments use equity and tokens. Active Fund II in 2026 expands its AI, Atoms and Association thesis across technological sovereignty; fund size, check range and entry stages remain undisclosed. Portfolio fundraising totals describe money raised by companies and protocols, rather than manager fund commitments or AUM.

Planet A is a Berlin-based, science-driven green tech venture capital firm investing in early-stage European startups focused on climate mitigation, resource savings, biodiversity protection, and waste reduction. The firm utilizes an in-house science team to conduct life cycle assessments before making investment decisions.

Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing in European tech startups from pre-seed and seed stages. The firm combines financial investment with operational support through its in-house studio model, focusing on areas such as fintech, defense, AI, and supply chain. Its fifth fund, closed in June 2025, raised €325 million ($373 million), bringing total assets under management to €1.2 billion.

Nexus Venture Partners is a US–India venture firm founded in 2006. It manages USD3.2 billion across eight funds following the USD700 million Fund VIII close announced 2025-12-04. Current general strategy spans pre-seed through Series B in software, AI and frontier technology; Fund VIII emphasizes inception, seed and Series A in AI, enterprise software, consumer and fintech.

IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm, built on the conviction that frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. The firm leads rounds at pre-Seed to Series A and, through its growth opportunity funds, can follow-on with up to $40m per company. Founded in Cambridge in 2007, IQ Capital now operates from London with additional offices in Cambridge and Amsterdam.

Prague-based pre-Series A AI venture fund, legally Look AI Ventures SICAV, a.s., acting for Look AI Ventures I Subfund. Its official site dates fund launch to Q4 2022 and identifies Look AI Investments as its operating subsidiary. Primarily European with global investing. EUR250k initial/EUR1m follow-on figures are historical 2024 reporting, rather than verified current limits.

Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain,cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.

HOF Capital is a venture capital firm backed by 70 of the world’s most influential families and organizations. We partner with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO, helping them build the next generation of leading technology companies.

Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for extraordinary entrepreneurs building fast-growth tech companies. Hummingbird Ventures teamed up with transformative companies, including Deliveroo, Showpad, Kraken, Peak Games, Clear2pay, Amplidata, Gram Games, Shutl and many others. With a presence in London, Ghent and Istanbul, Hummingbirdprovides swift access to the operational resources and advice needed to build the tech companies of tomorrow.

Curiosity VC is a community-driven early-stage venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, founded in 2021 by Herman Kienhuis and Maurice Beckand Verwée. It invests in AI-native B2B software companies across the Benelux, Nordics, and Baltics, backing founders at the pre-seed and seed stages across verticals including finance, legal, real estate, energy, and cybersecurity.

Early-stage venture firm investing in European semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials.

Breega is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by former entrepreneurs. It backs bold founders from pre-Seed to Series A+ in Digital, Climate, and Deep Tech across Europe and Africa, providing both capital and operational scaling expertise.

Celesta Capital is a global deep technology venture capital firm that invests in science and engineering businesses. Its focus spans semiconductors and intelligent systems, infrastructure software, biotechnology and bioconvergence, and technologies that modernize industrial markets. The firm combines investment capital with operational support from executives and technologists who have built and scaled hardware and software companies. Formerly WRVI Capital, it adopted the Celesta Capital name in May 2021 and supports portfolio companies from product development and commercialization through growth.

Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm backing inception-stage, deep-technology enterprise founders from Europe and Israel with global (primarily US) go-to-market ambitions. Founded in 2018 by Gil Dibner, the firm is headquartered in London with an outpost in Tel Aviv.

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at Series A and beyond with a particular focus on Europe, leveraging deep operational experience to supercharge their growth. The company's team of founders, investors, and operational leadershave been responsible for global expansion, hiring, and marketing at companies from Skype, Google, and Twitter to Uber and Spotify. It specializes in seed, startup, Series A, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, and growth capital investments. Atomico was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in London, England.

European early-stage venture firm backed by a community of angel investors and investing primarily at pre-seed and seed, with a later-stage direct-investment track.

Balderton is Europe’s leading venture capital investor, focused exclusively on European founded technology companies. We support companies from Seed to Exit. We have a track-record of backing breakthrough companies ranging from MySQL to Betfair, and The Hut Group to Yoox Net-a-Porter. Companies in the Balderton portfolio take advantage of Balderton's network of globally-connected executives, who have real-world experience of founding and building technology companies from startup to IPO; Balderton's CEO Collective; and the firm's platform of legal, talent and marketing services. Founders and entrepreneurs seeking investment should reach out directly to a member of the Balderton investment team.

AI-focused early-stage venture firm founded in 2017. Official FAQ describes pre-seed through Series A, with typical USD1–3million checks and wider exceptions; this FAQ still references FundIII and is historical policy evidence. Dated January26,2026 announcement establishes USD250million FundIV raised without verifying revised check limits or current AUM.

Early-stage investor in frontier technology and businesses that fundamentally transform markets, principally pre-seed/seed in the UK, Europe and US. Fund 2 backs MindPortal (direct BCI); biological-neuron computation is distinct from human BCI. Individual team angel/SPV investments require separate attribution.

AI researcher, co-author of the Transformer paper, and co-founder of NEAR Protocol who now leads NEAR AI.

Consumer technology and AI investor who announced his departure from Andreessen Horowitz in 2026 to start his own fund. Previously a16z partner, with investments including ElevenLabs, Function Health, Partiful and Slingshot AI. Earlier worked on growth at Snap and served as CFO at Bungalow. Writes about consumer AI, distribution, engagement and monetization. His own writing identifies @kirbyman01 as his X account.

Head of Operations and founding team member at Wordware (Sauna by Wordware).

Professor at UC Davis and director of the Speech Neuroengineering and Cybernetics Lab. Studies speech perception, auditory attention and communication using EEG, fMRI and machine learning, with applications to hearing loss and speech restoration. Holds a joint UCSF/UC Berkeley PhD in bioengineering; joined UC Davis in 2004 after postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroimaging at Berkeley. His research includes brain-based hearing diagnostics and decoding facial-muscle signals to reconstruct speech.

Founder of The Thinking Company, angel investor and newsletter author.

Co-founder of ElevenLabs. Previously worked at Palantir and studied Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Day One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Masha Bucher in 2018, based in San Francisco. The firm backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications, combining investment with hands-on PR and storytelling support to accelerate mass adoption of technologies.

Backed VC is a human-centric European seed-stage venture capital firm based in London, investing in brave founders building generation-defining frontier technology companies. Founded in 2016 by Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, the firm focuses on AI-native therapeutics, blockchain and banking infrastructure, and manufacturing automation.

President and co-founder of OpenAI, working on frontier AI systems, engineering and company strategy. Previously CTO of Stripe, helping grow its engineering organization from an early startup. His projects include OpenAI Gym, OpenAI Five, the OpenAI API and large-scale model training. Writes about software engineering and technology at gregbrockman.com and his personal blog.

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship andbusiness enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others. Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983.

San Francisco pre-seed investor founded in 2016 by Gaurav Jain and Anamitra Banerji, backing founders from ideation and first institutional investment. Fund IV USD185M raised in February2025; USD500M homepage aggregate capital is distinct from fund size. Neural Drive provides verified non-invasive neural/biosignal interface exposure.

Venture firm founded in2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, investing at seed, venture and growth across AI, bio/healthcare, infrastructure, American Dynamism and other technology strategies. Direct neuromodulation investment Halo Neuroscience is verified; no dedicated neurotech mandate or current firmwide check range established.

Venture firm founded in 1995 with offices in San Francisco and Woodside. Verified company announcements establish semiconductor, electronics-design automation and robotics investments. Public 2026 reporting describes separate early-stage and growth vehicles. The old Signal partner roster and private-company status descriptions are historical and are not verified as current.

Global venture investor with separate seed/early and growth practices and dedicated regional/strategy vehicles. Verified scientific investments include quantum computing, space hardware, advanced manufacturing and fusion. Neuroscience therapeutics and mental-health services are adjacent exposure; direct neural-interface investment not verified in scoped research.

Early-stage generalist investing pre-seed through Series A, with follow-on reserves and initial checks up to USD1 million. Frontier technology includes fusion, semiconductors and Prophetic ultrasound neuromodulation; Radial Health is adjacent treatment-delivery infrastructure. Minimum and sweet spot remain unverified.

Compound is an NYC based venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology being built by outliers.

Founder-led seed investor supporting earliest company-building across software and deep technology, including quantum hardware, ocean robotics, industrial automation and genome editing. Select I supplies later-stage portfolio follow-ons. BioBeats biometric wellness and historical BCI thesis interest do not establish direct neurotechnology investment.

Austin-headquartered technology investment and company-building firm founded in2015, with San Francisco and New York offices. Thesis areas include infrastructure IT, biology, healthcare, government/defense and logistics. Wispr historical neural-interface backing differs from its current voice AI products.

Founded in 2009, Freestyle Capital is a seed stage investor and mentor for Internet software startups. The firm is interested in decentralized distribution of media and information, Twitter, cloud computing and crowd sourcing. Josh Felser, a General Partner at Freestyle, worked at News Corp for four years. He also worked in new media as co-founder and president of Spinner, the first multi-channel Internet radio service and was co-founder and CEO of Grouper/Crackle, one of the first Internet video networks. Both companies were acquired in less than three years for $320M (AOL) and $65M (Sony Pictures) respectively. Felser and his partner from Spinner and Grouper, Dave Samuel, started Freestyle Capital to fill the void between retreating angels and VCs moving to later stage investments.

Independent AI-focused venture firm founded in2017, with Google remaining an LP and partner. Initial strategy emphasizes pre-seed and seed across applications, agents, developer infrastructure and real-world AI in biology, materials, robotics and compute. Direct neurotechnology backing not verified in scoped sources; GV is distinct.

Initialized Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm backing founders across enterprise software, AI, infrastructure, financial technology, healthcare, sustainability, hard technology, consumer businesses and crypto. Its team combines investors with experience in engineering, entrepreneurship, design, communications, talent and company operations. The firm helps early stage businesses develop products and teams, communicate their ideas, raise subsequent financing and navigate the venture market, while continuing to support founders as their companies grow. Initialized operates from San Francisco and New York and invests in both software companies and businesses developing technology for the physical world.

Innovation Endeavors is helping entrepreneurs drive a super evolution of industry. A proliferation of data, advanced computation and robotics are converging to accelerate iteration cycles, radically collapsing time. We invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and New York City.

Lux Capital invests in frontier physical, computational and life sciences from company formation through growth. The firm reported USD 7 billion managed capital on 2026-01-07, separately from its closed USD 1.5 billion Lux Ventures IX fund. Individual check policy remains unverified.

Venture capital firm investing in technology companies from early company formation through growth. Its sector teams back AI, biotechnology and healthcare, cybersecurity, robotics, hardware and enterprise software. Its Fuel team supports portfolio companies with talent, business development, go-to-market work and marketing. The firm also operates the Anthology AI program and publishes board partners and partners emeriti separately from active staff.

Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson in 2013. Originally named Pejman Mar Ventures, the firm was rebranded to Pear VC in 2016 and partners with exceptional founders from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 1982. The firm invests in next-generation enterprise and emerging technologies, including AI infrastructure, vertical AI, physical intelligence, and frontier/deep tech, from inception through Series A.