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Caffeinated Capital — 2025 Investments

17 investments dated 2025 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Saronicsaronic.comin𝕏Series A · Feb 2025 · $600M

Saronic builds autonomous surface vessels — including the 180-foot, long-range Marauder — along with Echelon, a command-and-control software layer for planning, simulating and operating single vessels or fleets.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareRoboticsAustin, US

Dino Mavrookas(Founder)inRob Lehman(Founder)inVibhav Altekar(Founder)inDoug Lambert(Founder)inPatrick DePriest(Chief Financial Officer)inSoo Cho(Chief People Officer)in

Board seatRaymond Tonsing· per SEC Form D

Co-investors1Flourish Capital8VCAdvent InternationalAlpha PartnersAndreessen HorowitzAnti+42 more

Avenaven.comSep 2025 · $110M

Aven is a San Francisco fintech offering a home-equity-backed Visa credit card and related asset-backed consumer credit products.

Sadi Khan(Founder)inMurtada Shah(Founder)inCollin Wikman(Founder)inAlmaz Nanjappa(Founder)Jeremy Solomon(Founder)Usman Ghani(Founder)

Co-investorsCoatue ManagementCollective LiquidityElectric CapitalFounders FundGeneral CatalystGeneral Partnership+16 more

Biospherebiosphere.ioinJan 2025 · $8.8M

Biosphere develops bioreactors and biomanufacturing systems to modernize industrial production of chemicals, materials, foods, and pharmaceuticals using engineered biology and clean energy.

Advanced ManufacturingBiotechCleantechHardware

Brian Heligman(Founder)inArye Lipman(Founder)in

Co-investorsGS FuturesFounders FundVXI CapitalJuniperLowercarbon CapitalB37 Ventures

Diodediode.computerin𝕏Seed · Apr 2025

Diode Computers designs and manufactures custom circuit boards using AI-powered tools, offering services from initial design through volume production for electronics manufacturers.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHardwareNew York City, US

Davide Asnaghi(CEO)inLenny Khazan(CTO)inLeo Khazan(Executive Officer, Director)Elizabeth Olshanetsky(Chief of Staff)Logan Sweet(Member of Technical Staff)Craig Chen(ML Engineer)

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBoxGroupSoma CapitalTranspose Platform ManagementVentoY Combinator+1 more

Diodediode.io𝕏Jul 2025 · $11.4M

Diode Collab is a decentralized collaboration platform that provides secure, end-to-end encrypted chat, file syncing, and VPN capabilities for teams handling sensitive data, operating without reliance on third-party servers.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Co-investorsPortland Seed FundAndreessen HorowitzBoxGroupY Combinator

Diodediode.energyin𝕏Jul 2025 · $11.4M

Diode provides sales tools that help consumers make net-zero purchasing decisions through smart integrations, focusing on connecting renewable energy and electric vehicle solutions.

CleantechEnergySaaS

Jon Horsfield(Founder)in

Co-investorsOne Planet CapitalAndreessen HorowitzBoxGroupY Combinator

Eventualdaft.aiin𝕏Seed · Jun 2025 · $30M

Daft is a data processing platform that transforms raw multimodal data (video, images, audio, sensor data) into training-ready datasets in a single pipeline.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Sammy Sidhu(Founder)inJay Chia(Founder)inTony Wang(Founder)Patrick Ames(Founder)Ritvik Kapila(Founder)Maurice Weber(Founder)

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesArray Ventures Management LlcBasis Set VenturesCRV (Charles River Ventures)Felicis VenturesMaterialized View Capital+12 more

Eventualeventual.cominJun 2025 · $30M

Eventual's Direct Bill is a financial reconciliation platform for insurance agencies that automates the matching of carrier statements to policy records and accounting systems, eliminating manual spreadsheet work and reconciliation delays.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US

Mohit Chawla(CEO)in

Co-investorsBlank VenturesPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)AlleyCorpArray Ventures Management LlcCRV (Charles River Ventures)ESSENCE VC+4 more

Gravitybygravity.comin𝕏Jan 2025

By Gravity builds enterprise data analytics software that uses generative AI to bridge the gap between data insights and business action.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoulder, US

Drew Gillson(Co-Founder & CTO)inLucas Thelosen(Co-Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsCommunitas Capital PartnersDenver VenturesFoundryNext Frontier CapitalRitual CapitalStout Street Capital+5 more

Gravitygravity.comJan 2025 · $13Macquired by AOL

Gravity develops a suite of WordPress plugins including Gravity Forms (a drag-and-drop form builder with payments and conditional logic), Gravity SMTP (email delivery and tracking), and Gravity Flow (workflow automation and approvals).

Developer ToolsMarketing TechSaaS

Carl Hancock(Founder)in

Co-investorsAugust CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Irregular ExpressionsRedpoint VenturesAnsa CapitalBuoyant Ventures Management, Llc+4 more

Gravitygravity.coinJan 2025 · $13M

Gravity develops wearable human flight technology, including a jet suit that augments human capability to enable individual flight.

Deep TechHardware

Saleh ElHattab(Founder)in

Co-investorsDraper AssociatesAnsa CapitalBuoyant Ventures Management, LlcCommitted CapitalCommunitas Capital PartnersEclipse+1 more

Luzern Riskluzernrisk.comin𝕏Series A · Mar 2025 · $12M

Luzern Risk is an AI-native captive manager that designs, forms, and runs custom captive insurance programs, combining risk expertise with a technology platform.

AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechNew York, US

Gabriel Weiss(Founder)inJonathan York(Founder)Rachel Jenkins(Founder)Sam Espinosa(Founder)in

MicroAlchemymicroalchemy.xyzPre-Seed · May 2025 · $2M

Microalchemy provides rapid silicon prototyping, offering wafer fabrication on a 1μm process with under three-week turnaround alongside open-source chip design tooling as an alternative to closed EDA stacks.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsSan Francisco, US

Aditya Srinivasan(Founder)Saif Khattak(Founder)

Omen AIomen.aiinSeed · Oct 2025 · $11M

Omen provides continuous fluid analysis sensors that monitor the health of critical hardware in real time, detecting equipment failures before they occur across data centers and industrial machinery.

Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareIoT

Daniel Jeong(Founder)in

Co-investors640 OxfordBackwards CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)LMNT VenturesMute VenturesNava Ventures+4 more

SpacePharmaspacepharma.healthin𝕏Aug 2025 · $187M

SpacePharma develops pharmaceutical research and manufacturing systems designed to operate in microgravity environments aboard satellites and spacecraft.

BiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesSpace Tech

Yossi(Co-Founder & CEO)Martin(Co-Founder, General Manager)

Co-investorsState of Mind VenturesAlso CapitalFounders FundKhosla VenturesLux CapitalShrug Capital

Stately Biostatelybio.cominMay 2025

Stately Bio develops stem cell-derived regenerative and cell therapies using a machine learning platform that measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical Devices

Frank Li(Founder & CEO)Christian Elabd, PhD(Head of Biology)

Co-investorsAIX VenturesFoothill VenturesMitsui Global InvestmentAxial VCBoxOne VenturesDimension Capital+1 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Twenty Technologies

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