🦊/Investors

Incubate US

Venture capitalActively deploying

Los Altos · 5 people tracked

Also known as INCUBATE FUND US GP, L.L.C.

Find your way into Incubate US

1,132 people in our graph share verified history with the Incubate US team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Chen Yang Siaunlockedknows Dave Kwong · together at Singapore Armed Forces (overlapped)
knows the team · via The Wharton School
knows the team · via Retrocausal
knows the team · via University of Oxford
×6knows the team · via University of London
knows the team · via Koç University
Fox Verdict
Sign up to see your fit

Fund manager profile

Incubate US is a venture fund manager based in Los Altos. SEC filings show 3 venture funds on record, most recently Incubate Fund US III, LP filed September 2025.

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.

HQ
Los Altos, US
Founded
2019
Last 12 months
1 investment
Private fund assets
$64.7M
VC funds
3
Tracked investments
35
Acquisitions
4

Team · 5 people

from curated & public directories
Kazuki Notsu· General Partnerin

What they invest in

from 30 of 35 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×26SaaS ×17Enterprise Software ×13Cybersecurity ×8Marketing Tech ×6Developer Tools ×5Cloud Computing ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3

HQs:United States×13Japan×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 19 portfolio companies
32%
solo founders
6 of 19 mapped founding teams
35%
repeat founders
of 31 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×62 founders×73 founders×44+ founders×2

Where their founders studiedfrom 33 founders with education data

Stanford University ×4Northwestern University ×2UCLA ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×17Engineering ×7Business & Management ×4Design & Architecture ×2Physics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 31 founders with career history

DeepMind ×3Booz Allen Hamilton ×2Facebook ×2McAfee ×2NetApp ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Techstars ×2

5 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 30 with degree data)

Investments · 35 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 12024 · 12023 · 13 dated

Akoolakool.com

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 Partners

Arenaarena.imin𝕏

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)Lightspeed Venture PartnersMu VenturesTechstarsVela PartnersAndreessen Horowitz+2 more

Auxiaauxia.ioinNov 2024

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 PartnersStage 2 Capital

Bright Securitybrightsec.comin

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 PartnersFusionIncubate FundJ-Ventures

Broxbrox.aiin

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 Ventures

Cartkencartken.comin

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(Co-founder (technical vision / software, mapping, AI))inChristian Berschin

Co-investorsVela Partners468 Capital

Cerbycerby.comin𝕏

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 & CEO)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)in

Co-investorsAV8 VenturesBowery CapitalCarnrite VenturesCategory VenturesCOREangelsSCB 10X+7 more

Cloudnatixcloudnatix.comin

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

Dagknowsdagknows.com

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 Optimized chips for AIdeepweave.aiin

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 and CEO)inDavid Pan(Founder and CTO)in

Co-investorsHomebrewRoot VenturesRoot Ventures Manager, Llc

Discern Securitydiscernsecurity.comin

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 Capital

Fez Incfez-inc.jpin
goooods株式会社goooods.comin

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

Innowateinnowate.aiin𝕏

Rigor provides mathematically rigorous cybersecurity risk mitigation methodology for CISOs, CIOs, and security operations teams across enterprises and government agencies.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSanta Clara, US

LevelPlanelevelplane.com

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

Lightuplightup.aiin𝕏

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

Limitlesslimitless.aiin𝕏Acquired

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)in

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFirst Round CapitalDaft CapitalDash VCEvolution VC PartnersMoxxie Ventures+7 more

Lovielovie.co

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

MTCmastery.orgin𝕏

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

Nominalnominal.soin

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

Opnovaopnova.aiin

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

OwnIDownid.comAcquired

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.AIpercept.aiinacquired by Atlassian

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/CEO)inDeyang (Derek) Zhao(Cofounder/CTO)inShuo Han(Founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino CapitalHike Ventures

Phaidraphaidra.aiin

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(Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board Member)inVeda Panneershelvam(Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Board Member)inKatie Hoffman(Co-Founder, President, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member)inVedavyas Panneershelvam(Founder)in

Co-investorsCollaborative FundCool Climate CollectiveEast Valley VenturesFlying Fish VenturesIndex VenturesRoot and Shoot Ventures+8 more

Polymerpolymersearch.comin𝕏

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)in

Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)Flucas VenturesSierra VenturesSommet ABVela PartnersOceans Ventures

Promisestudiospromisestudios.comin𝕏

Promise Studios develops films, series, and new forms of entertainment using hybrid and fully generative-AI-powered productions.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

ReFiBuyrefibuy.aiin𝕏Apr 2026

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-investorsG20 VenturesKnoll VenturesVela PartnersCommerce VenturesIncubate FundNewRoad Capital Partners, LLC+2 more

Retrocausalretrocausal.aiin𝕏Nov 2023

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)

Co-investorsAtland VenturesCapria VenturesDifferential VenturesGlasswing VenturesOne Way VenturesTechstars+4 more

Scribescribe.aiin𝕏

Scribe provides AI automation teams with workflow discovery and centralization software that captures business processes across applications to feed context into AI agents and automation tools.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Co-investorsAmplify Partners CVMorado VenturesNew York Life VenturesRedpoint VenturesTiger Global Management

Sunshinesunshine.comacquired by dazzle ai

Sunshine was an AI-powered personal digital organization tool that has been acquired by Dazzle AI.

AI & Machine Learning

Marissa Mayer(Founder)in

Co-investorsNext Legacy PartnersUnusual VenturesWebb Investment Network

Vieuvieu.com

Seattle, US

Simon Skaria(Founder)

Co-investorsTrilogy Equity PartnersVela Partners

Voltvolt.aiin𝕏

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 2

Percept.AIacq. by AtlassianSunshineacq. by dazzle ai

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

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, Andreessen Horowitz, Dnx Ventures, among 71 tracked co-investors.

Images

Incubate US photo

Featured in lists