Firms

futurepresent

United States · Europe

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Transatlantic venture firm investing in physical AI, applied AI for complex industries, and AI infrastructure from inception through early growth.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

Funds1

Fund I2026-032026-03$300M
PubliclaunchMarch2026 existingUSD300mfund; explicitlegalfinalclosingdateunverified, nottarget/AUM.

Team

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Co-investing

Connecticut Innovations

Slide$70M · 2026-03-10

General Catalyst

Slide$70M · 2026-03-10

Glynn Capital

Slide$70M · 2026-03-10

Gradient Ventures

Isidor$3M · Unknown date

Index Ventures

Slide$70M · 2026-03-10

Investments

$70M2026-03-10	Slide	General Catalyst, Connecticut Innovations, Glynn Capital, Index Ventures, Outsiders Fund, futurepresent, Mark Crane
$8M2026-02-03	Polaron	Speedinvest, futurepresent
$—Unknown date	Suno	futurepresent
$—Unknown date	General Intuition	futurepresent
$3MUnknown date	Isidor	Gradient Ventures, futurepresent

team@apexlogos.ai4 hours ago
Investment-fund research reviewed 2026-10-06. Publicly identified funds, dates, amounts and fundraising status are below. Undisclosed commitments remain unknown; this is not a complete register of private SPVs or parallel entities. Fund size and investment stages | Vehicle / metric | Finding | Date and evidence | Caveat | |---|---|---|---| | Fund I | US$300 million | Official [launch announcement](https://futurepresent.vc/), March 2026; [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/03/25/futurepresent-emerges-from-stealth-with-300m-fund-i-to-back-ai-across-infrastructure-and-industry/), 2026-03-25; [Bertelsmann announcement](https://www.bertelsmann.com/en/media/news/global-investment-and-growth-platform-delivers-strong-operating-performance.html), 2026-07-08 | Presented as an existing launched fund rather than a fundraising target. No explicit legal final-close date or closing-document evidence found. It is a fund amount, not a check size or independently reported total AUM. | | Newer vehicles | No newer named fund verified | Official site plus searches for futurepresent Fund II / newer fund announcements, accessed 2026-10-06 | Latest-known rather than an exhaustive regulatory finding. | | Check sizes | Not verified for this firm | Official site does not specify them | Signal partner figures concern former firms. | The official announcement supports inception and concentrated early-growth investment, and three themes: physical AI; applied AI in difficult, labor-constrained industries; and AI infrastructure. Tech.eu (2026-03-25, link above) more specifically reports pre-seed/seed plus concentrated growth. Historical transaction evidence includes Isidor pre-seed and Slide Series B; those deals illustrate the mandate without establishing a commitment to every intermediate stage. Funds recorded in Adex after this review: | Fund | Disclosed amount | Announcement / filing date | | --- | --- | --- | | Fund I | USD 300000000 | 2026-03 |
team@apexlogos.ai5 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / Goldifuturepresent / sha256:dbdfb930cf5912228934079c6a41d0a208c4287ebc84dd3c41c5c3db465b4b5e / part 2 of 2 Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats. **No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** The official firm statement, named portfolio evidence, related Signal profiles, official investee pages and targeted futurepresent searches for neuro/brain/BCI did not establish investment in brain recording, stimulation, neural interfaces or other direct neurotechnology. World models, AI reliability and music generation are general AI rather than neural-interface technology. References to DeepMind alumni or human cognition do not establish neurotech. Healthcare investments under Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments are a different vehicle and should not be attributed to futurepresent. ## Conflicts, missing information and later Adex review - Preserve the exact ID `Goldifuturepresent`; the firm is not Future Ventures or the British presentation agency Future Present. A secondary company-directory result mixed these identities, so it was not used for factual conclusions. - Consider adding Fund I US$300 million, March 2026 public launch and inception/pre-seed/seed through selective early-growth stages, retaining the unresolved legal final-close date. - Verify Polaron and General Intuition against the linked primary sources before adding portfolio links. Isidor participation is company-supported; its lead status rests on reporting. Suno participation is LP-supported, but exact financing attribution remains missing. - Retain Slide's firm participation with its company-issued announcement; do not use Mark Crane's personal record as the basis or infer that he belongs to this firm. - Bertelsmann's 2025 annual report says 13 founding teams in the first year, while March 2026 reporting says 14. A timing/reporting-cutoff difference is plausible, but no complete dated portfolio list was obtained. Do not report either as current portfolio size. - Full portfolio coverage, individual check sizes, ownership targets, legal domicile, LP commitment amounts, closing terms and precise original General Intuition/Suno dates remain undisclosed or unverified. No neurotech result is an evidence gap, not proof of absence. All sources were accessed **2026-10-06**. Publication dates are stated beside each source where available; undated live pages may change. This file is a self-contained research artifact for later Adex review and authorizes no database or MCP Patch action.
team@apexlogos.ai5 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / Goldifuturepresent / sha256:dbdfb930cf5912228934079c6a41d0a208c4287ebc84dd3c41c5c3db465b4b5e / part 1 of 2 Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats. # futurepresent - **Exact Adex ID:** `Goldifuturepresent` - **Canonical Adex page:** https://adex.page/firms/Goldifuturepresent - **Official site:** https://futurepresent.vc/ - **Research date:** 2026-10-06 - **Status:** Complete research pass; material disclosure gaps are listed below. Research only; no Adex/database changes. futurepresent is a transatlantic venture firm whose official March 2026 launch announcement describes AI platforms and infrastructure investments in the US and Europe, beginning at inception and extending selectively into early growth. Its latest-known announced vehicle is **US$300 million Fund I**. Verified deep-tech exposure includes Polaron's materials-science AI and General Intuition's world/action models. No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked. ## Starting evidence: Adex and NFX Signal The saved exact-ID [Adex snapshot](_sources/Goldifuturepresent.adex.json), retrieved 2026-10-06, describes physical AI, applied AI for complex industries and AI infrastructure, from inception through early growth. It contains no fund amount or check range. Its single investment is Slide's US$70 million Series B dated 2026-03-10. Goldi.ai is listed among its sources; the accompanying round metadata references Mark Crane's personal Signal history and explicitly warns against inferring current-firm attribution. These are baseline claims rather than independent verification. The baseline [NFX firm URL](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/futurepresent) could not be directly retrieved by the browsing tool. Related profiles were directly read: [Thomas Lueke](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/thomas-lueke) and [Johnson Yang](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/johnson-yang), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. Both list a futurepresent partnership in experience, while their headline current positions remain Cherry Ventures and General Catalyst respectively. Lueke's page displays a US$340 million fund, US$580,000–4.6 million range and US$2.6 million sweet spot; Yang's displays US$1.1 billion, US$500,000–10 million and US$2 million respectively. **Do not transfer those figures to futurepresent:** the profile headings attach them to former firms. Lueke's historical TWAICE, Cosuno and other deals likewise do not independently establish futurepresent investments. ## Fund size and investment stages | Vehicle / metric | Finding | Date and evidence | Caveat | |---|---|---|---| | Fund I | US$300 million | Official [launch announcement](https://futurepresent.vc/), March 2026; [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/03/25/futurepresent-emerges-from-stealth-with-300m-fund-i-to-back-ai-across-infrastructure-and-industry/), 2026-03-25; [Bertelsmann announcement](https://www.bertelsmann.com/en/media/news/global-investment-and-growth-platform-delivers-strong-operating-performance.html), 2026-07-08 | Presented as an existing launched fund rather than a fundraising target. No explicit legal final-close date or closing-document evidence found. It is a fund amount, not a check size or independently reported total AUM. | | Newer vehicles | No newer named fund verified | Official site plus searches for futurepresent Fund II / newer fund announcements, accessed 2026-10-06 | Latest-known rather than an exhaustive regulatory finding. | | Check sizes | Not verified for this firm | Official site does not specify them | Signal partner figures concern former firms. | The official announcement supports inception and concentrated early-growth investment, and three themes: physical AI; applied AI in difficult, labor-constrained industries; and AI infrastructure. Tech.eu (2026-03-25, link above) more specifically reports pre-seed/seed plus concentrated growth. Historical transaction evidence includes Isidor pre-seed and Slide Series B; those deals illustrate the mandate without establishing a commitment to every intermediate stage. ## Named previous deep-tech investments | Company | Technology and classification | Firm attribution, transaction and date | Sources | |---|---|---|---| | **Polaron** | AI models connecting materials manufacturing, microstructure and performance; Imperial College London research spinout. Strong deep-tech fit because its work combines materials science with generative design, including battery electrodes. | Company announcement names Futurepresent as a co-investor with Speedinvest in an **US$8 million** round led by Racine2, **2026-02-03**. No individual futurepresent check disclosed. Official announcement does not name the stage; Sifted calls it seed. | [Official Polaron announcement](https://www.polaron.ai/newsroom/polaron-raises-8m-to-build-the-intelligence-layer-for-materials-science), 2026-02-03; [Sifted](https://sifted.eu/articles/polaron-imperial-spinout-8m), 2026-02-03. | | **General Intuition** | Frontier world/action models for spatial and temporal reasoning in virtual and physical environments; official site describes research and robotics API applications. Strong frontier-AI/deep-tech fit. | Bertelsmann explicitly attributes investment alongside Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst to futurepresent in its **2026-07-08** announcement. Its 2025 annual report also names General Intuition in futurepresent's portfolio. Exact original transaction date/check and futurepresent's allocation to each round are not disclosed in those sources. | [Bertelsmann](https://www.bertelsmann.com/en/media/news/global-investment-and-growth-platform-delivers-strong-operating-performance.html), 2026-07-08; [2025 annual report](https://ar2025.bertelsmann.com/the-opportunity-company/investment-portfolio), reporting period 2025, publication date not displayed; [official investee site](https://www.generalintuition.com/), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. | | **Isidor** | Infrastructure for frontier-model data, evaluation and reliability. Plausible enabling AI deep-tech exposure, but an infrastructure service should not automatically be treated as novel model research. | Company's recruitment page names futurepresent among investors in an oversubscribed **US$3.6 million pre-seed**, alongside Gradient Ventures and Seedcamp. Founded September 2025; exact round date not disclosed. Tech.eu says futurepresent led its pre-seed and describes reinforcement-learning/model-training pipelines. The company page confirms participation, not lead status. | [Official Isidor recruitment page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/isidor/jobs/4051790009), undated, accessed 2026-10-06; [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/03/25/futurepresent-emerges-from-stealth-with-300m-fund-i-to-back-ai-across-infrastructure-and-industry/), 2026-03-25. | General Intuition's current official site reports more than US$650 million raised over the past year; that is **investee cumulative financing, not futurepresent capital**. It cannot identify futurepresent's round participation by itself. An August 28, 2026 Bertelsmann release, available through a [search-indexed Publicnow syndication](https://www.publicnow.com/view/BBDEB6A7557BD7797FA7442203D82EA3F5F6DEC6), attributes a first-half-2026 follow-on to futurepresent. Direct retrieval of that syndicated page failed, so treat the follow-on date range as a lead requiring original-release confirmation. Bertelsmann's July 8 announcement also names **Suno**, an AI music-generation company, as a futurepresent investment, but does not give the transaction date, stage or amount. It is frontier/generative-AI exposure rather than physical hardware or neurotechnology. No invented round attribution is supplied here. ## Slide verification and classification The Adex attribution concern is resolved at the firm level by **Slide's own [March 10, 2026 announcement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/10/3252448/0/en/Slide-Raises-70-Million-Series-B-Led-by-General-Catalyst-to-Expand-Its-Business-Continuity-and-Disaster-Recovery-BCDR-Platform-for-Managed-Service-Providers.html)**: it names futurepresent as a participant in the **US$70 million Series B**, led by General Catalyst. Thus the existing firm participation is supported, although the snapshot's personal-investor metadata is poor attribution evidence. Slide builds backup/business-continuity infrastructure for managed service providers. This is a verified infrastructure investment, but the reviewed evidence does not justify labeling it deep tech or neurotech. The US$70 million is total round size, not futurepresent's check. ## Previous neurotech investments
team@apexlogos.ai22 days ago
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