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Investment thesis
Commonweal Ventures focuses on early-stage companies that work with government to solve major national challenges. The firm helps portfolio companies accelerate growth by tapping into distinct government strengths including scale, credibility, regulatory authority, and funding. It invests $500,000 to $2.5 million in pre-seed and seed stage companies, and is willing to both lead and follow rounds.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 20 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesFounder mafia
4 people who came through Commonweal Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 30 of 48 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×10GovTech ×7Energy ×6Enterprise Software ×6Fintech ×6Cleantech ×5Climate Tech ×5
HQs:United States×24
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×73 founders×54+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 21 founders with education data
Stanford University ×6Copenhagen Business School ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2UCLA ×2Yale University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 21 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×4Computer Science ×4Engineering ×3Humanities ×3Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 23 founders with career history
Goldman Sachs ×4Adentro ×2National Energy Partners ×2US Army ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
5 hold an MBA (of 22 with degree data)
Investments · 48 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 32024 · 22022 · 12019 · 12011 · 111 dated
Palantir builds data integration and analysis platforms — Gotham for defence and government, Foundry for commercial operations — and deploys forward engineers inside customer organisations.
Palo Alto, US
Peter Thiel(Founder)inStephen Cohen(Founder)Nathan Gettings(Founder)Joe Lonsdale(Founder)inAlexander C. Karp(Founder)Alex Karp(Founder)
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCA*AiSprouts VCAkkadian VenturesAllied Venture Partners+72 more
Relay Therapeutics develops the Dynamo platform, which applies motion-based drug design principles to discover therapeutic drugs by integrating protein dynamics simulations with experimental and computational techniques.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechCambridge, US
Donald A. Bergstrom(Executive Officer)inSanjiv K. Patel(Director, President and Chief Executive Officer)inSekar Kathiresan(Director)Douglas S. Ingram(Director)Mark Murcko(Director)Laura Shawver(Director)
Co-investorsEcoR1 CapitalForesite CapitalNat TurnerNextech InvestSoftBank Vision FundCurie.Bio+2 more
Robinhood is a financial trading platform that enables users to manage portfolios across stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, options, futures, and prediction markets.
FintechMenlo Park, US
Vlad Tenev(Founder)inBaiju Bhatt(Founder)inJason Warnick(Chief Financial Officer)inGretchen Howard(Executive Officer)inVladimir Tenev(Founder)
BoardScott Sandell(Director)in
Co-investors1/1 CapitalACME CapitalAlgerAliya Capital PartnersAmplo VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+66 more
Enertiv provides a software platform for real estate portfolios to automate sustainability reporting, compliance, and utility data collection, and to manage decarbonization, energy optimization, tenant utility billing, and maintenance.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyPropTechNew York City, US
Pavel Khodorkovskiy(Executive Officer, Director)inConnell McGill(Executive Officer, Director)inEldon Klaassen(Director)
BoardThomas Blum(Director)in
Board seatNate Loewentheil· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Cerium Technology VenturesClean Energy VentureConnecticut InnovationsEmpire AngelsGroundBreak Ventures+6 more
Advocate helps individuals navigate Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications using AI and advocacy services.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthGovTechHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Emilie(CEO)
Co-investorsNew York Life Ventures
Anadyr Horizon builds predictive simulation software powered by what it calls Agentic Systems Intelligence (ASI), designed to model human decisions and strategic outcomes before they occur.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechNew York, US
Dr. Arvid Bell(Co-Founder; Founder, Negotiation Task Force (NTF))Dr. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress(Co-Founder)Dr. William C. Potter(Co-Founder & Advisor)
Co-investorsACADEMY INVESTORAIN VenturesCollide Capital
GreenFi (formerly Aspiration's consumer finance brand) offers climate-friendly banking and investing, including checking, savings, and investment accounts whose deposits avoid funding fossil fuels.
Climate TechFintechImpact & Social Good
Tim Newell(CEO)in
Co-investorsJovonoMission and MarketRadicle ImpactUnruly CapitalOaktree
Astranis manufactures small, high-powered geosynchronous satellites equipped with advanced digital processing technology for global telecommunications and connectivity services.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareSpace TechSan Francisco, US
John Gedmark(CEO)inRyan McLinko(CTO)inMike Mancini(Executive Officer)Siamak Ebadi(Lead RF Engineer)inHall Chen(RF Payload Design)inShraddha Pandya(Talent Acquisition)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzATEL VenturesBlack FlagBoxGroupCantos VenturesCherubic Ventures+85 more
Atomic Canyon builds AI-powered software for the nuclear energy industry, supporting teams with document review, compliance, and operational analysis.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSan Luis Obispo, US
Kristian Kielhofner(Founder)inTrey Lauderdale(Founder)
Co-investorsCity LightEnergy Impact PartnersNVIDIAPlug and Play Ventures
A protocol for carbon credit verification
Co-investorsDraft Ventures Llc
Clipbook is an AI-powered media intelligence platform that monitors, aggregates, and analyzes content from over 1 million sources across news, TV, radio, social media, podcasts, and policy.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Adam Joseph(Founder)in
Co-investorsHigher Ground LabsCarpenter Capital
Closure develops AI technology for law enforcement, focusing on tools designed around the needs of police departments and their personnel.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechNew York City, US
Aaron Zelinger(CEO)inGilad Levy(CTO)inGraciëlla van Vliet(Founder)Tina Wu(FDE)Chantele Lohr(Ops Engineer)Alex Carter(Head of Business Operations)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBorski FundBoxGroupCRV (Charles River Ventures)HAWKTAILPathlight Ventures+7 more
Concourse provides cloud-based software for government and public sector operations, including permitting, licensing, legislative management, utility billing, workforce programs, courts, public records, parks, procurement, grants, facilities, and data integration.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaS
Crux is a capital platform that modernizes fundraising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure projects through advisory, investment, technology, and intelligence services.
B2B MarketplacesCleantechClimate TechData & InfrastructureEnergyFintechNew York, US
Allen Kramer(Founder)inAlfred Johnson(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen HorowitzArdent VentureBroadscaleGiant Ventures Global LlpLorimer Ventures+9 more
Deckard Technologies provides an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps local governments identify and manage short-term rentals, long-term rentals, and foreclosed or vacant properties.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechPropTechSan Diego, US
Greg Rose(Founder)Jessica Flanagan(Founder)Tony Moriarty(Founder)
Co-investorsMighty Partners
Dutywise is a full-service duty drawback broker with an AI-powered, cloud-based platform integrated with U.S.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsWischoff Ventures
Euclid is a venture capital firm focused on Vertical AI, providing research-driven insights and investing in companies building vertical AI software.
AI & Machine LearningPalo Alto, US
William Smith(Executive Officer, Director)inNic Poulos(Founder)in
BoardMichael Dearing(Director)Patrick Chung(Director)
Co-investorsDeep AcreXG VenturesBenchmarkDesigner FundSpero VenturesToba Capital+1 more
Euclid provides software and services for renewable energy teams, including a platform that extracts and structures data from project documents into costs, risks, requirements, and action items.
CleantechClimate TechEnergySaaSNew York City, US
Jacob Sandry(Founder)inBrian DeMaio(Founder)inRyan Guay(Founder)in
Co-investorsBridges Fund Management Ltd.Coalition OperatorsDesigner FundNextView VenturesSpero VenturesSquad Capital+3 more
Farther builds technology for wealth advisors and ultra-high-net-worth clients, offering a platform for wealth management services including investment strategy, tax-efficient solutions, and family office operations.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Taylor Matthews(Founder)inBrad Genser(Founder)inJoseph Taylor Matthews(Executive Officer, Director)Dmitry Kilin(Executive Officer)in
BoardBabak Yazdani(Director)Paul Stamas(Director)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCapitalGCota CapitalGeneral AtlanticHabitat PartnersLightspeed Venture Partners+6 more
Greatly Health delivers evidence-based integrative medicine to cancer patients and survivors through virtual classes, one-on-one health coaching, and community support.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsFlare Capital PartnersPear VC
Grid develops uncrewed, long-range cargo aircraft ("Lifter") that carry heavy payloads over thousands of miles, operated as a distributed, autonomous mesh network managed by small ground teams.
Defense TechLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsPalo Alto, US
Alex Kroll(Executive Officer)Chinmay Patel(Co-founder & CTO)inArthur Paul Dubois Taine(Founder / Aerospace Engineering Leader)Arthur Dubois(Co-founder & CEO)inBrandon Florian(Co-founder & CCO)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBison VenturesCalibrate VenturesGeodesic CapitalUbiquity VenturesVirginia Venture Partners
Guidehouse is a global professional services firm that provides advisory, technology, and managed services using AI to improve efficiency and resilience in healthcare, financial services, energy, infrastructure, and national security sectors.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareGovTechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsVeritas Capital
Laneway provides a pricing mechanism for freight transport capacity called the AEU (allocation unit), enabling shippers and carriers to better manage space allocation and pricing within their existing service contracts.
B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Andrew(CEO & Founder)Janice(Founding Engineer)
Multitude Insights builds software for law enforcement agencies that centralizes intelligence such as bulletins, emails, and PDFs so information can be created, shared, and tracked across units, departments, and jurisdictions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSWatertown, US
Matthew White(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundCounterview CapitalFulcrum VenturePrimary Venture PartnersVSC Ventures
Pearl Edison builds software to help homeowners purchase home electrification and energy-efficiency systems while making installation more profitable for contractors.
CleantechClimate TechEnergySaaS
Co-investorsLightbankMichigan Rise
Proper Voltage offers a platform that adapts battery chemistries to different products, letting manufacturers and engineers integrate a wider range of battery technologies through voltage adaptation.
CleantechEnergyHardwareCarlsbad, US
Gregory Slawson(Executive Officer)Charles Welch(Executive Officer, Director)David Felzer(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCraige Bertero(Director)
Proximity is a configurable platform for managing 340B drug pricing programs, unifying data from TPAs, pharmacies, wholesalers, and payers to detect missed savings, correct claims, and support HRSA and manufacturer audit compliance.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsLRVHealth
Public is a trading platform that allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and memecoins through accounts managed by Zero Hash LLC, a New York State-licensed virtual currency business.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechSaaSNew York, US
Jannick Malling(Founder)inLeif Abraham(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbbhi CapitalAccelAdvancit CapitalAglae VenturesAltra VentureDreamers VC+20 more
Roivant develops pharmaceutical medicines and medical technologies through a subsidiary model called "Vants," focused on accelerating the development and commercialization of treatments for dermatology and other therapeutic areas.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical Devices
Vivek Ramaswamy(Founder)inIván Cornella-Taracido(Vice President of Translational Chemical Biology)
Co-investorsHongShan Capital GroupSoftBank Vision FundViking Global
Sharp Performance provides performance coaching and stress management training for professionals in high-stress roles, drawing on expertise from military special operations and sports psychology backgrounds.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Andrew Sakmar(Founder)inBenjamin Curley(Founder)
Co-investorsA*Andreessen HorowitzSiesta Ventures
Starbridge provides enterprise sales enablement technology that helps business teams sell to government and public sector buyers.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSales TechNew York, US
Justin Wenig(Founder)inJ Zachary Stein(Director)
Co-investorsCraft VenturesOwl VenturesAutotech VenturesAvalanche VC
Vested Finance is an investment platform that lets Indian residents and NRIs invest in over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs, including full and fractional shares.
FintechAustin, US
Sourabh Ahuja(Executive Officer)Mike Bruno(Executive Officer)Darwin Arifin(Founder)Eric Huynh(Founder)Viram Shah(Founder)Yinghan Lin(Founder)
Co-investorsCPP InvestmentsMorgan StanleyPremji InvestTA AssociatesThink InvestmentsTiger Global Management+9 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AcrolinxAnodyneBeaconClaim DefenseCleanchoiceenergyClimateROSGeoliticaGranicusGreenboxJoinatmosMonevoMosaicPrescientRedwireScapulaWestinghouse Electric
Exits · 3
3 IPOsPalantir Technologies Inc.NASDAQ: PLTRRelayNASDAQ: RLAYRobinhoodNASDAQ: HOOD
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Robinhood · techcrunch.com · Aug 5, 2026
Greatly Health · thesaasnews.com · Jun 2, 2026
Farther Finance · finsmes.com · May 21, 2026
Astranis · finsmes.com · May 7, 2026
Euclid Power · finance.yahoo.com · Mar 10, 2026
Starbridge · thesaasnews.com · Oct 24, 2025
Vested Finance · prnewswire.com · Oct 15, 2025
Grid Aero · finsmes.com · Aug 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Commonweal Ventures made?
- Commonweal Ventures has 48 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Commonweal Ventures invest at?
- Commonweal Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Commonweal Ventures's typical check size?
- Commonweal Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $2.5M.
- What sectors does Commonweal Ventures focus on?
- Commonweal Ventures focuses on Climate Tech, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Energy, GovTech, Healthtech, Impact & Social Good, Space Tech.
- Where is Commonweal Ventures located?
- Commonweal Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Commonweal Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Commonweal Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Commonweal Ventures co-invest with?
- Commonweal Ventures most often shares deals with Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, MassMutual Ventures, among 141 tracked co-investors.
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