Incubate US
Venture capitalLos Altos
Also known as INCUBATE FUND US GP, L.L.C.
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Fund manager profile
Incubate US is a venture fund manager based in Los Altos. SEC filings show 1 venture fund on record, most recently Incubate Fund US, L.P. ($18.2M offering) filed April 2019.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
What they invest in
from 30 of 35 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×26SaaS ×17Enterprise Software ×13Cybersecurity ×8Marketing Tech ×6Developer Tools ×5Cloud Computing ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3
HQs:United States×14Japan×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×83 founders×44+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 33 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4UCLA ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 28 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×17Engineering ×7Business & Management ×4Design & Architecture ×2Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 34 founders with career history
Google ×15Booz Allen Hamilton ×2McAfee ×2NetApp ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
5 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 31 with degree data)
Investments · 35 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12024 · 12023 · 12021 · 14 dated
AKOOL develops AI-driven video creation solutions that enable businesses to produce personalized, high-quality visual content for marketing purposes.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSPalo Alto, US
Jiajun Lu(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsCitta CapitalVela PartnersG2C Venture Partners
Arena is a real-time engagement platform that enables organizations to create immersive interactive experiences, engage audiences through live updates, and personalize customer interactions across news, gaming, and ecommerce industries.
Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentRetail TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Paulo Martins(Founder)in
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Grupo Globo - Mídia e ConteúdoLightspeed Venture PartnersMu VenturesTechstarsVela Partners+3 more
Auxia builds AI marketing agents and a real-time decisioning platform that automate campaign workflows and personalize customer journeys, integrating with tools like Braze and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Sandeep Menon(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inRavi Desu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inAsim Krishna Prasad(Founder)inCole Stuart(Founder)inLuv Misra(Founder)in
BoardIndranil Guha(Director)
Co-investorsVela PartnersMUFG Innovation PartnersRidge VenturesStage 2 Capital
Bright Security develops an AI-powered application security platform that automates detection, remediation, and validation of security vulnerabilities integrated into the software development lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsDnx VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersFusionJ-VenturesTOLOKA SYNDICATE LIMITEDCoinbase Ventures+1 more
Brox builds digital twins from human data to deliver consumer and market research insights to business clients, positioning itself as a "human-truth layer" for decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Durgé Seerden(Co-founder & CTO)inHamish Brocklebank(Founder & CEO)inAlex Mcintosh(CFO)in
Co-investorsFlorida FundersScribble VenturesVela PartnersWonder VenturesFirestreak VenturesMaxitech
Cartken builds autonomous robots for short-distance material transport and intralogistics that operate both indoors and outdoors, taking over manual transport tasks.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsOakland, US
Jake Stelman(Founder)inJonas Witt(Founder)inChristian Bersch(Founder)inAnjali Jindal Naik(Founder)
Co-investorsVela Partners468 Capital
Cerby provides an identity security platform that extends password management, SSO, MFA, user provisioning/deprovisioning, and privileged access management to disconnected applications that lack SAML, OIDC, or SCIM support.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Belsasar Lepe(Founder)inVidal(Co-Founder & CTO)inErnie Tkac(Chief Revenue Officer)inMatt McCawley(VP of Customer Experience, Business Development & Partnerships)inMiles Lavin(Chief Financial and Operating Officer)inVidal Gonzalez(Founder)
Co-investors515 VenturesAlumni VenturesAV8 VenturesBowery CapitalCarnrite VenturesCategory Ventures+14 more
CloudNatix provides an infrastructure platform that optimizes computing costs and improves efficiency for DevOps and AIOps teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Rohit Seth(Founder and CEO)
Co-investorsCota CapitalDnx VenturesVela Partners468 Capital
DagKnows offers an AI-based SRE platform that autonomously investigates IT incidents by building causal investigation trees, identifying root causes, and capturing resolutions as reusable runbooks.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
DeepWeave builds Loom, an AI-native optimization platform that augments the backend (physical) design stage of chip design, targeting power, performance, area, and yield through design-technology co-optimization within existing EDA flows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSemiconductors
Unni Narayanan(Founder)inDavid Pan(Founder and CTO)in
Co-investorsHomebrewRoot Ventures Manager, Llc
Discern is an AI agent-powered security platform that assesses, benchmarks, and optimizes security controls across tools such as EDR, SASE, email, SIEM, IAM, and vulnerability management.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Rohan Puri(Founder)inSanthosh Purathepparambil(Founder)in
Co-investorsCyber Mentor FundFirst Rays Venture PartnersForgePoint CapitalWestWave Capital
goooods is a Japanese B2B wholesale marketplace connecting retail shops with distinctive domestic and overseas brands, focusing on food, organic products, and specialty goods.
B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail TechTokyo, JP
Louis Nonouchi(Founder)inKeisuke Kanno(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.Vela PartnersZ Venture Capital
LevelPlane builds an AI system (EIM) that reads 2D engineering drawings to extract dimensions, features, and design intent, then produces should-cost estimates, supplier matches, and RFQ workflows for manufacturing sourcing teams.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSales Tech
Cris Blace(Founder)in
Co-investorsVela Partners
Lightup provides enterprise data observability software that monitors and validates production data pipelines using AI-powered anomaly detection.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzVela PartnersIncubate FundS28 CapitalShasta VenturesGTMfund
Limitless creates AI tools designed to augment human intelligence and overcome cognitive limitations by improving memory and focus.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHardware
Dan Siroker(Founder)inDan Siroker Brett Bejcek(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFirst Round CapitalAlumni VenturesDaft CapitalDash VCEvolution VC Partners+11 more
Lovie provides AI agents that automate company launch operations — incorporation, EIN registration, registered agent setup, and compliance — accessible through a conversation or a tool call from the founder's IDE.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsStreamlined VenturesVela Partners
Mastery.org operates the Mastery Transcript, a competency-based alternative to traditional grade transcripts, and runs a consortium of schools that use it.
EdTechSaaS
Matt Sornson(Founder)inAaron Rasmussen(Co-founder)inScott Looney(Founder of MTC)in
Co-investorsETS Strategic Capital
Nominal builds a financial operating system powered by generative AI to modernize accounting and financial operations for companies.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Guy Leibovitz(Co-Founder and CEO)inGolan Kopichinsky(Co-Founder and CTO)inStephanie Montelius(VP of Marketing)inYaara Hendel(VP of Product Management)in
Co-investorsBling CapitalHyperwise VenturesNext47Vela PartnersFounders Fund
Opnova provides AI agents that learn from video demonstrations of IT operator workflows and autonomously execute identity governance tasks across enterprise applications without requiring connectors or APIs.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Sinan Eren(Co-Founder & CEO)inJosé Luís Pereira(Co-Founder, CTO & President)inPedro Saleiro(Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)inTiago Melo(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)in
Co-investorsFaberScaleX VenturesPreface Ventures
OwnID's Liveness is a biometric verification technology that defends against fraud at the capture layer by detecting emulators, injection attacks, deepfakes, and signal manipulation, while maintaining fast user experience.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsCervinVela PartnersGTMfund
Percept.AI builds AI systems that handle customer support interactions for businesses, using natural language processing to improve support team productivity and responsiveness.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Joe (Zhou) Sha(Founder)inDeyang (Derek) Zhao(Founder)inShuo Han(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino CapitalBuilders VCCherubic VenturesCyphrFoothill Ventures+5 more
Phaidra develops an AI control platform that uses reinforcement learning to optimize energy efficiency and operational performance in data centers and AI factories.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechEnergySeattle, US
Jim Gao(Founder)inVeda Panneershelvam(Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer)inKatie Hoffman(Founder)inVedavyas Panneershelvam(Founder)
Co-investorsCollaborative FundCool Climate CollectiveEast Valley VenturesFlying Fish VenturesIndex VenturesRoot and Shoot Ventures+9 more
Polymer is a no-code business intelligence and reporting platform that connects to e-commerce data sources like Shopify and Amazon to generate automated sales reports, dashboards, and AI-driven insights.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing TechSaaSNew York City, US
Ashish Gupta(Founder)inYasser Ansari(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTim Guleri(Director)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)Flucas VenturesRemarkable VenturesSierra VenturesSommet ABVela Partners+1 more
Promise Studios develops films, series, and new forms of entertainment using hybrid and fully generative-AI-powered productions.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsSaga Ventures
ReFiBuy provides a platform for optimizing product data and visibility across AI-driven shopping environments and agents.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechRaleigh, US
M. Scot Wingo(Executive Officer, Director)inDerek Lee Conlin(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardStefan Sterns(Director)in
Co-investorsAtento CapitalFlyover CapitalG20 VenturesKnoll VenturesNewRoad Capital Partners, LLCVela Partners+4 more
Retrocausal develops AI-powered intelligence augmentation systems for manufacturing shopfloors, helping assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers boost productivity, quality, and safety.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTSeattle, US
Zeeshan Zia(Founder & CEO)inMuhammad Zeeshan Zia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Rick Faulk(Director)inQuoc-Huy Tran(Director)
BoardKleida Martiro(Director)inBaiyin Murphy(Director)in
Co-investorsArgon VenturesAtland VenturesCapria VenturesDifferential VenturesGlasswing VenturesOne Way Ventures+5 more
Scribe automatically captures and documents work processes, converting institutional knowledge into accessible workflows that teams and AI agents can reference.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aaron Podolny(Founder)inJennifer Smith(CEO)in
Co-investorsAllison Pickens VenturesAmplify PartnersMorado VenturesNew NormalNew York Life VenturesWolfswood Partners+6 more
Sunshine was an AI-powered personal digital organization tool that has been acquired by Dazzle AI.
AI & Machine Learning
Marissa Mayer(Founder)inEnrique Munoz Torres(Founder)
Co-investorsNext Legacy PartnersUnusual VenturesWebb Investment Network
VOLT AI is a video security platform that uses AI to analyze feeds from an organization's existing cameras to detect weapons such as guns and knives and identify other threats, alerting security teams and first responders within seconds.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEdTechGovTechSaaSWashington, US
Egor O(Co-founder)Dmitry Sokolowski(Co-founder)inEgor Olteanu(Co-founder)Shannon(Marketing Leader)inJulia(Finance Leader)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesVela PartnersFuel CapitalFuel Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AirbuyincTryratioWave One
Exits · 4
4 acquisitions · showing 2Percept.AIacq. by AtlassianSunshineacq. by dazzle ai
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesDiscern Security · fintech.global · Jul 31, 2026
ReFiBuy · refibuy.ai · May 5, 2026
Scribe · finance.yahoo.com · Nov 12, 2025
Phaidra · finsmes.com · Oct 1, 2025
Cartken · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 20, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Incubate US made?
- Incubate US has 35 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- Where is Incubate US located?
- Incubate US is headquartered in Los Altos, US.
- Who does Incubate US co-invest with?
- Incubate US most often shares deals with Vela Partners, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, among 96 tracked co-investors.












































































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