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Incubate US

Venture capital

Los 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.

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

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×14Japan×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 20 portfolio companies
25%
solo founders
5 of 20 mapped founding teams
38%
repeat founders
of 34 founders with career history

Founding 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

Techstars ×2

5 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 31 with degree data)

Investments · 35 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 12024 · 12023 · 12021 · 14 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 PartnersG2C Venture 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)Grupo Globo - Mídia e ConteúdoLightspeed Venture PartnersMu VenturesTechstarsVela Partners+3 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 PartnersRidge VenturesStage 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 PartnersFusionJ-VenturesTOLOKA SYNDICATE LIMITEDCoinbase Ventures+1 more

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 VenturesMaxitech

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(Founder)inChristian Bersch(Founder)inAnjali Jindal Naik(Founder)

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)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

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)inDavid Pan(Founder and CTO)in

Co-investorsHomebrewRoot 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 CapitalWestWave 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.ai𝕏

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)inDan Siroker Brett Bejcek(Founder)

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFirst Round CapitalAlumni VenturesDaft CapitalDash VCEvolution VC Partners+11 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)inDeyang (Derek) Zhao(Founder)inShuo Han(Founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino CapitalBuilders VCCherubic VenturesCyphrFoothill Ventures+5 more

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(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 Searchpolymersearch.comin𝕏Aug 2021

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 Studiospromisestudios.comin𝕏

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

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-investorsAtento CapitalFlyover CapitalG20 VenturesKnoll VenturesNewRoad Capital Partners, LLCVela Partners+4 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)in

Co-investorsArgon VenturesAtland VenturesCapria VenturesDifferential VenturesGlasswing VenturesOne Way Ventures+5 more

Scribescribe.comin𝕏

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

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)inEnrique Munoz Torres(Founder)

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

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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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