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Investment thesis
Syntetica addresses textile waste by recycling nylon fibers into pellets for apparel brands and manufacturers. The company operates on a cost-competitive, scalable model with pragmatic partnerships across the fashion supply chain. Recent volatility in petrol-sourced nylon pricing and regulatory pressure on waste management create tailwinds for this solution. The firm focuses initially on nylon recycling before potentially expanding to other materials, building facilities near waste sources and textile production globally.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 20, 2026.
What they invest in
from 27 of 55 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×11Enterprise Software ×10Healthtech ×7Cybersecurity ×6SaaS ×6Cloud Computing ×5Fintech ×5Biotech ×4
HQs:United States×23Brazil×1India×1Mexico×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 21 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 24 founders with education data
CentraleSupélec ×2UC San Diego ×2University of California, Davis ×2University of Minnesota ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 23 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×9Business & Management ×6Economics ×5Finance & Accounting ×4Engineering ×3Mathematics & Statistics ×3Life Sciences ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 29 founders with career history
IBM ×3Microsoft ×3Brightcove ×2FireEye ×2Truffle Security ×2Wireless Generation ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
4 founders hold a PhD · 6 hold an MBA (of 24 with degree data)
Investments · 55 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 22022 · 12018 · 22016 · 22015 · 19 dated
Circle provides a full-stack platform for digital finance, combining blockchain infrastructure, stablecoins (USDC, EURC), and payment networks to enable borderless value exchange and financial access globally.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechNew York City, US
Jeremy Allaire(Founder)inPatrick Sean Neville(Director)Sid Yadav(Founder)inSean Neville(Founder)inP. Sean Neville(Director)Heath Tarbert(Executive Officer)in
Co-investors10T FundAccelalphabet angelsAlumni VenturesAxevil CapitalBantam Group+34 more
Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Olivier Pomel(Founder)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Co-founder & CTO)inAmit Agarwal(Executive Officer)inAnthony Merlino(Executive Officer)David Obstler(Chief Financial Officer)inAlexis Lê-Quôc(Founder)
Co-investors8-Bit CapitalAmplify PartnersBantam GroupBoxGroupComcast VenturesContour Venture Partners+25 more
Rapid7 develops and operates an AI-driven software platform and managed security services that enable security operations teams to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats across cloud, on-premises, and endpoint environments.
Boston, US
Alan Matthews(Director)Steven Gatoff(Executive Officer)Michael McKee(Executive Officer)inRichard Moseley(Executive Officer)Lee Weiner(Executive Officer)Corey Thomas(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalBain Capital VenturesTCVTechnology Crossover Ventures
ARC is a device management system that tracks, charges, and maintains shared enterprise devices like smartphones, tablets, and scanners.
Enterprise SoftwareHardwareIoTSaaSPhiladelphia, US
Douglas BaldasareinRobert Kay(Executive Officer)inHarsh Agarwal(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Schmitt(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFusionX VenturesRobin Hood VenturesSoundboard Venture FundStart CapitalTIA Ventures
CB Therapeutics builds a yeast platform for biosynthesis of molecules including psychedelics, cannabis, and alkaloids that are difficult to source through conventional methods.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechSan Diego, US
Sher Butt(CEO)inJacob Vogan(Founder)inJason (Zhen) Qi(Founder)inGuoliang Yu(Executive Officer, Director)Stephanie Elliot(Admin)Thanos Karavokiris(Vice President Operations)
Co-investorsC3 VenturesJames Beshara FundMetaplanetPioneerY CombinatorApeiron Venture Capital+7 more
Cheribundi makes tart cherry juice marketed as a performance and recovery aid, with claimed benefits for inflammation, sleep, immunity, and muscle recovery.
Advanced ManufacturingConsumerDirect to ConsumerSports TechGeneva, US
Brittany Ridley(Executive Officer)Brian Ross(Executive Officer, Director)inMichael Oringer(Director)Thomas Facer(Director)Hans Heer(Director)James O'Callaghan(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsCayuga Venture FundECP Growth
cielo24 was a video data company providing captioning, transcription and media data labeling; acquired by Rev and closed in 2025.
Santa Barbara, US
Brian Plackis-Cheng(Executive Officer, Director)Shanna Johnson(Executive Officer)
BoardJohn F. Frankel(Director)inClaudia Iannazo(Director)Eric Holmen(Director)inJames Kwon(Director)
Co-investorsFf Venture CapitalMontage CapitalNorth Base MediaPereg VenturesIndicator VenturesWavemaker Partners
CipherHealth provides a care coordination platform for health systems that connects nurse rounding, patient outreach, and post-discharge follow-up, using 15+ years of patient interaction data layered with AI.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechNew York, US
Zach Silverzweig(Executive Officer)inAlex Hejnosz(Executive Officer)Frank Liu(Director)Anthony Wong(Director)Randolph Cheung(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMatt Emery(Director)in
Co-investorsJMI EquityHercules Capital, Inc.
Codingal offers online after-school programs combining human teachers and AI-powered learning to teach coding, AI, math, and public speaking to K-12 students globally.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechBengaluru, IN
Vivek Prakash(Founder)inSatyam Baranwal(Founder)inNeha More(HR Team Lead)Nikhil Kumar(Product Manager)Subrina Lepcha(Senior Talent Acquisition Manager)Joel Jacob(Talent Acquisition Associate)
Co-investorsRebright PartnersY CombinatorGSF AcceleratorNurture Venture PartnersDay One SyndicateJava Capital+2 more
Connected Signals provides cloud-based vehicle-to-infrastructure technology that connects to existing traffic signals without new physical infrastructure, aiming to improve timeliness and safety for pedestrians and vehicles.
Cloud ComputingGovTechIoTMobility & TransportationEugene, US
Matthew Ginsberg(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inDennis Capovilla(Executive Officer, Director)inDavid Etherington(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardQuin Garcia(Director)John Harbison(Director)
Co-investorsPasadena AngelsSand Hill Angels
Creizer provides flexible credit lines to online sellers in Mexico, with repayment terms tied to sales performance.
E-commerceFintechMexico City, MX
Emiliano Musalem(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorBlue Zone VenturesPioneerSoma CapitalSur VenturesAsymmetry Ventures+8 more
Curio provides mental health care services focused on closing health equity gaps for women, leveraging a team with expertise in healthcare, regulatory affairs, and clinical research.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechMental Health
DeepCharge operates a platform that predicts enterprise device failures using machine learning and IoT sensing technology.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTLogistics & Supply ChainNeedham, US
Yousof Naderi(Founder)inMohammad Naderi(Executive Officer, Director)Kaushik Chowdhury(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsIdeaship
Delphi Diagnostics develops genomic diagnostic tests for breast cancer that measure endocrine transcriptional activity to help healthcare providers personalize treatment decisions.
BiotechHealthtechAustin, US
William Creech(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsDigitalDx Ventures
DDestra provides labor compliance and risk management services, helping companies minimize labor-related risks and ensure conformity with Brazilian labor laws when contracting services.
Enterprise SoftwareLegalTech
doola provides a platform for entrepreneurs globally to form and operate U.S. businesses, offering an all-in-one back-office solution including LLC formation, business banking, tax filings, and compliance services.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkLegalTechSaaSNew York City, US
Arjun Mahadevan(Founder)inJP Pincheira(Founder)Omid Ghiam(Growth Marketing Lead)Chelsea Jia(Chief of Staff)Lee Hambley(Head of Engineering)Jor Jiao(Head of Finance)
Co-investorsY CombinatorHustle FundNexus Venture PartnersHubSpot VenturesPunch CapitalApax Digital+4 more
Ecellix develops anode material for lithium-ion batteries that significantly increases capacity compared to traditional graphite, targeting battery manufacturers.
CleantechEnergyNew MaterialsSnoqualmie, US
Jerry Schwartz(Founder)inJason William Schwartz(Director)John J Anderson(Director)
Co-investorsE8 AngelsKeiretsu Forum
Eclypsium provides hardware and firmware security solutions for enterprises to identify and address vulnerabilities in chips, low-level code, and digital supply chains.
CybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwarePortland, US
Yuriy Bulygin(Founder)inAlex Bazhaniuk(Founder)inAlex B(Founder)John Ewert(Executive Officer)in
BoardAlex Doll(Director)inTimothy Porter(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAV8 VenturesBasecamp FundDniproGlobal Brain+14 more
Ejenta builds an agentic AI platform for connected care that delivers intelligent healthcare solutions to patient homes and manages care for members with chronic conditions like heart failure.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Rachna Dhamija(CEO)in
Co-investors15th RockCity LightTechstarsYamaha Motor VenturesFounders' Co-op
Extra offers a debit card paired with a "Spend Power" line of credit (provided by Lead Bank) that lets consumers build credit through everyday debit purchases without a traditional credit card, credit check, or security deposit.
ConsumerFintech
Co-investorsB3 CapitalBlue CollectiveNat TurnerReshape
Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and control platform offering experiments, monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Krishna Gade(Founder)inAmit Paka(Founder)in
BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)inBilal Zuberi(Director)inGeorge Mathew(Director)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundBenhamou Global VenturesBloomberg BetaCisco InvestmentsDallas Venture CapitalDentsu Ventures+23 more
One Health operates a clinical trial platform using canine cancer data to accelerate and de-risk human oncology drug development.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Christina Lopes(Founder)inBenjamin Lewis(COO)inchristina lopesinPedro Carrasco(Chief of Staff)Christi Miller(Head of Operations)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCivilization Ventures Management, LlcGlobal BrainIKJ CapitalMaC Venture CapitalMana Ventures+15 more
Comprehensive money management tool for business growth and sustainability.
Co-investorsM13Alumni VenturesCore Innovation CapitalMaC Venture CapitalMotley Fool VenturesMuse Capital+1 more
Finli provides financial management tools and digital banking solutions for small businesses and financial institutions.
FintechSaaSSales TechSan Marino, US
Lori Shao(CEO)Lori S(Founder)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCore Venture CapitalMaC Venture CapitalMotley Fool VenturesMuse CapitalNaples Technology Ventures+5 more
Flitto creates, refines, and validates large-scale multilingual and multimodal datasets (text, speech, and image) for training AI models, sourced through its crowd platform Flitto Arcade with 14 million users across 173 countries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Ballpark VenturesColopl NextPearl Abyss CapitalPremier PartnersSBI Investment Korea Co. Ltd.+1 more
Permiso offers an identity security posture management platform that inventories human and non-human identities across cloud environments (identity providers, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and assesses their exposure to compromise.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMclean, US
Paul Nguyen(Founder)inJason Martin(Founder)inSanjeev Williams(SVP of Product Management)inJared Elder(VP of Marketing)inTin Huu Nguyen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Erik Kriessmann(Director)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalFoundation CapitalPoint72 VenturesVertex VenturesWork-BenchAltimeter Capital+2 more
Sonrai Security provides a cloud permissions management platform that enforces least privilege access across cloud identities and services.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Brendan Hannigan(Founder)inSandy Bird(Founder)inWilliam Bird(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardDave Barrett(Director)Venky Ganesan(Director)inAlex Doll(Director)in
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesTen ElevenPolaris Partners
Wabbi provides a continuous security platform that quantifies application security risk in real time by aggregating vulnerability, compliance, and policy data across development pipelines.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoston, US
Brittany(Founder & CEO)Phil(CTO)Kim(CFO)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsEmmeline VenturesMendoza VenturesUnderscore VCWork-Bench
Zscaler operates a cloud-based cybersecurity platform built on Zero Trust architecture to protect users, workloads, branches, and devices across an inline security cloud.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Jay Chaudhry(Founder)inRobert Schlossman(Executive Officer)inRemo Canessa(Executive Officer)inSyam Nair(Executive Officer)inCharles Giancarlo(Director)Karen Blasing(Director)
Co-investorsAlphaDriveAnsa CapitalBright Pixel CapitalCapitalGDell Technologies CapitalJunipero+3 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Chargeitspot Philadelphia Pa UsCheribundi Boulder Co UsCielo24 Santa Barbara Ca UsCircle Boston Ma UsCodingal Dover De UsConnected Signals Irvine Ca UsCrowdstrike Holdings Sunnyvale Ca UsCyber Security Lockhart Fl UsDeepwatch Tampa Fl UsEasy PairingsEasy Pairings New York City Ny UsEcellix Snoqualmie Wa UsEjenta San Francisco Ca UsEvotec Hamburg DeExperiment New York City Ny UsExtra New York City Ny UsFiddler Palo Alto Ca UsFinli Ontario Ca UsPalo Alto Networks Santa Clara Ca UsRapidfort Sunnyvale Ca UsSecuritypal San Francisco Ca UsUnnamed biotech firmWibWib Security Tel Aviv IlWiz
Exits · 11
5 IPOs · 6 acquisitions · showing 8CircleNYSE: CRCLDatadogNASDAQ: DDOGEvotec SENASDAQ: EVORapid7NASDAQ: RPDCielo24 Santa Barbara Ca Usacq. by RevConnected Signals Irvine Ca Usacq. by Zero Infrastructure Mobility SolutionsWibacq. by F5Wib Security Tel Aviv Ilacq. by F5
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCheribundi · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 29, 2026
doola · ycombinator.com · Apr 30, 2026
Eclypsium · securityweek.com · Mar 20, 2026
Fiddler AI · thesaasnews.com · Jan 30, 2026
Evotec SE · biospace.com · May 6, 2025
Delphi Diagnostics · delphi-diagnostics.com · Apr 15, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has aVenture made?
- aVenture has 55 tracked investments, 11 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What sectors does aVenture focus on?
- aVenture focuses on Circular Economy, Climate Tech, New Materials.
- Where is aVenture located?
- aVenture is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does aVenture co-invest with?
- aVenture most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, among 170 tracked co-investors.
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