Essentia Ventures — Full Portfolio
19 tracked investments · listed companies and verified rows first
Ambarella develops video compression and autonomous vehicle technologies as a semiconductor company.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareIoTSemiconductors
Feng-Ming (Fermi) Wang(Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer)John A. Young(Chief Financial Officer)inChan W. Lee(Chief Operating Officer)inFermi Wang(Founder)Leslie Kohn(Founder)
Co-investorsCoalitionDag VenturesMatrixRiverwood Capital
actnano develops PFAS-free, gel-state conformal coatings (Advanced nanoGUARD) that protect printed circuit boards and electronics from water, condensation, and harsh environments.
CleantechHardwareNew MaterialsCambridge, US
S. Taymur Ahmad(Executive Officer, Director)inTaymur Ahmad(Founder)inWilliam Brewer(Executive Officer)inJames F. Sheridan, Jr.(Executive Officer)Ivan Ardemagni(Executive Officer)inTimothy Scott Housefield(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBMW i VenturesEmerald Technology Ventures AgGC VenturesLiquidity CapitalMaterial ImpactSeraph Group+2 more
CB Insights provides a market intelligence platform that offers verified data, analytics, and predictive scoring on over 12 million private and public companies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundCartaCatalytic Impact FoundationCRV (Charles River Ventures)InCountry+7 more
brighter AI develops AI-based anonymization technology for video and image data, protecting identities in video content while preserving data utility.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBerlin, DE
Marian Klee(Managing Director, Co-Founder and Former CEO)inLars Larsen(Managing Director)
Co-investorsArmilar Venture PartnerseCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERSeCapital Entrepreneurial Partners AGG+D Ventures
Graphon is a pre-model intelligence layer that converts enterprise multimodal data—video, audio, documents, images, logs, and databases—into persistent relational memory, giving LLMs and AI agents connected context for more accurate reasoning.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arbaaz Khan(Founder & CEO)inClark Zhang(Co-Founder & CTO)inDeepak Mishra(Co-Founder & COO)in
Co-investorsAurumCourtside VenturesHitachi VenturesLightscape PartnersSamsung NextB37 Ventures+4 more
Intangible is an AI 3D studio that enables creative professionals to generate, control, and refine 3D content for advertising, film, retail, events, architecture, and deeptech applications using a spatial intelligence engine.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSan Francisco, US
Bharat Vasan(Founder)inBharadwaj Srinivasan(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Migos(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCrosscourt VenturesCrosslink CapitalGaingelsPlay Time VenturesBlumberg Capital+1 more
Kinetic builds hardware, robotics, and AI systems for automotive repair, helping service providers diagnose and repair modern vehicles with precision and speed.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsCosta Mesa, US
Sander Marques(Founder)inHaytham Elhawary(Founder)
Co-investorsAutomotive Ventures MobilityConstruct CapitalMenlo VenturesAbstract VenturesAntlerBalerion Space Ventures+6 more
Loombotic manufactures custom wire harnesses for hardware teams using AI-powered design interpretation and automated assembly.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsToronto, CA
Lucas Crupi(CEO)inEthan Breit(CTO)in
Co-investorsRoot Ventures Manager, LlcTheory Forge VenturesY CombinatorAg Ventures AllianceBuckley Ventures Management Company LlcPeterson Venture Partners+2 more
Parasail provides AI inference compute on a flexible fleet that scales with usage, letting companies commit to output (tokens) rather than long-term hardware purchases.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Mike Henry(Founder)inTim Harris(Founder)in
Co-investorsBanyan VenturesBasis Set VenturesIneffable VenturesKindred VenturesSamsung NextThreshold Ventures+2 more
Swift Navigation provides low-cost, high-accuracy GPS and GNSS positioning solutions for autonomous vehicles, mobility applications, and mass-market uses.
Deep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationCalifornia, US
Timothy Harris(CEO and Co-Founder)
Co-investorsClear VenturesEnerTech CapitalEvolution VenturesFirst Round CapitalFraser McCombs CapitalGen Capital+19 more
Tau Motors develops a software-defined power conversion platform spanning motors, inverters and controls for electrified systems.
EnergyHardwareMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US
Jonathan Ellman(Director)Walter Wesley Pennington III(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsDns CapitalFinindusYes VC
TAYA makes a wearable voice accessory worn like a necklace that captures spoken thoughts, notes, and reminders with a single button press and resurfaces them later.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerHardware
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesDorm RoomFemale FoundersMaC Venture CapitalA16Z SpeedrunNVIDIA
ZaiNar develops a platform for Physical AI that uses existing wireless networks to provide real-time positioning and sensing without satellites, cameras, or dedicated infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRedwood City, US
Philip Kratz(Executive Officer, Director)inDaniel Jacker(Executive Officer, Director)Curtis MacDonald(Director)inAlexander Hooshmand(Director)
BoardSteve Jurvetson(Director)inJerry Yang(Co-founder & former CEO, Yahoo!)
Co-investorsAlchemist AcceleratorAlpana VenturesCP VenturesEvolution VC PartnersFuture Venturesgener8tor+7 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Charter AiCoannotateKanuMyworkbenchVoaigeWorkbench Ai
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.























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