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Investment thesis
Koru Capital backs companies building the next layer of technology infrastructure, reshaping legacy industries, and unlocking new markets enabled by AI. The firm invests in Series A through D companies and also pursues secondary opportunities in late-stage market leaders such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Stripe. Its approach emphasizes following experienced, high-conviction VCs, maintaining discipline around entry points and reserves, and prioritizing long-term alignment. The team combines operating experience from building and exiting businesses with investing expertise, and draws on an investment committee and advisory board with backgrounds at institutions including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, SpaceX, and Stanford Medicine.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 34 of 51 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×20Enterprise Software ×12Deep Tech ×11Hardware ×8Advanced Manufacturing ×6Healthtech ×6Cloud Computing ×5Data & Infrastructure ×5
HQs:United States×31
Who they back
founder profiles across 34 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×73 founders×54+ founders×11
Where their founders studiedfrom 74 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×12University of California, Berkeley ×9Harvard University ×7Princeton University ×4Carnegie Mellon University ×3Stanford University ×3University of Toronto ×3Cornell ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 68 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×27Engineering ×26Mathematics & Statistics ×8Physics ×8Business & Management ×6Economics ×3Humanities ×3Chemistry ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 78 founders with career history
Google ×20OpenAI ×10Stanford University ×5Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ×4Meta ×4SpaceX ×4Carnegie Mellon University ×3Google Deepmind ×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
32 founders hold a PhD · 5 hold an MBA (of 76 with degree data)
Investments · 51 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathRevolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer)inBret Johnsen(Executive Officer)inGwynne Shotwell(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAntonio Gracias(Director)inSteve Jurvetson(Director)inDonald Harrison(Director)
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures1802 Ventures2080 Ventures3Spoke Capital4DX Ventures+197 more
Aalo develops advanced nuclear reactor technology aimed at producing electricity at under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Climate TechDeep TechEnergyHardware
Matt(Co-founder)inYasir(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAkkaAlumni VenturesBanca Investis — Family OfficeBasecamp FundBlack FlagBrave Capital+31 more
Anduril builds autonomous systems and software for defense and military applications, including attack aviation, unmanned aircraft, and underwater vehicles, unified by an autonomy platform.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareRobotics
Palmer Luckey(Founder)inBrian Schimpf(CEO)inTrae Stephens(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures1435 Capital1Flourish Capital8VCAliya Capital PartnersAltra Venture+101 more
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Co-founder & CEO)inDaniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)inChris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)in
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture Capital7GC & CoA.Capital VenturesAccelAkka+144 more
Apollo Atomics develops compact nuclear power systems designed for rapid deployment.
Advanced ManufacturingClimate TechDeep TechEnergyBoston, US
Assil Halimi(Founder)inDrew Walker(Co-Founder/COO)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAngel Operator Partners (aop)Cliff CapitalFifty YearsKima VenturesNeutron Power Ventures+43 more
Ayar Labs develops co-packaged optics (CPO) technology for AI infrastructure, enabling optical connectivity between thousands of GPUs across data center racks.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductorsSan Jose, US
Co-investorsNVIDIAAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundBerkeley FrontierBlue Bear VenturesCastor Ventures+21 more
Besxar is developing reusable orbital manufacturing platforms called Fabships that use the vacuum of space to produce ultra-pure materials and semiconductors for use in AI, quantum computing, nuclear, and defense applications.
Deep TechSemiconductorsSpace Tech
Co-investors645 VenturesBee PartnersUNION Labs Ventures
Judi Rx (formerly Capital Rx) is a transparent, fiduciary-aligned pharmacy benefits manager that prices drugs against the federal NADAC benchmark, passes through rebates, and charges a single flat administrative fee.
Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechInsurTechSaaSNew York, US
AJ Loiacono(Co-Founder & CEO)Ryan Kelly(Director)A. J. Loiacono(Director, Executive Officer)
BoardLenard Marcus(Director)inJared Kesselheim(Director)inKevin Hill(Director)
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalTRANSFORMATION CAPITAL9Yards CapitalB CapitalEdison Partners+3 more
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Castelion designs and manufactures low-cost, mass-producible hypersonic strike weapons and defensive systems for U.S. national security and defense customers such as the U.S.
Advanced ManufacturingDefense TechHardwareTorrance, US
Bryon Hargis(Co-Founder & CEO)inSean Pitt(Co-Founder & COO)inAndrew Kreitz(Co-Founder & CFO)inCharles Bryon Hargis(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardAlex Poulin(Director)in
Co-investors7percent VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundAvenir Growth CapitalBlueYard CapitalCantos Ventures+14 more
Clear Labs develops fully automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms that process genomic data into insights for research and surveillance applications across infectious disease, food safety, and oncology.
BiotechData & InfrastructureDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Carlos, US
Sasan Amini(Co-founder & CEO)inRamin Khaksar(Executive Officer)inEdward Fan(Executive Officer)inBrodie Flanders(Executive Officer, Director)Kazutaka Ohno(Executive Officer)Farzad Naimi(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesKhosla VenturesNimble VenturesAlumni VenturesCastor VenturesDentsu Ventures+13 more
Cumulus Labs provides an inference platform that consolidates production AI infrastructure (routing, caching, observability, evaluation, fine-tuning, and runtime) into a single API.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsY CombinatorDementia Discovery FundInvesting Women AngelsValor Equity PartnersAugur VCBatch Ventures+4 more
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Co-founder & CEO)inIon Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inMatei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAlpha Square GroupAltra Venture+109 more
Deel is a global HR platform that enables businesses to hire, onboard, and manage employees and contractors across borders.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Bouaziz(Founder/CEO)inShuo Wang(Founder/CRO)inAlexandre Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ofer Simon(Former Co-Founder)Philippe Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardAnish Acharya(Director)in
Co-investors515 VenturesAdventure FundAlpha Square GroupAltaIR CapitalAmplo VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+70 more
Figure develops general-purpose humanoid robots designed for deployment in workforce and home environments.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsSunnyvale, US
Brett Adcock(Executive Officer, Director)inLee Randaccio(Executive Officer)Dana Berlin(Executive Officer)Logan Berkowitz(Executive Officer)Colby Adcock(Director)Peter Welinder(Director)
Co-investors10T Fund1802 VenturesAlign VenturesAliya Capital PartnersAUDEO VENTURESAurum Venture Partners+50 more
Fireworks provides AI infrastructure services, leveraging experience from PyTorch, Meta, and Google.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Mateo, US
Dmytro Dzhulgakov(Founder)inBenny Yufei Chen(Founder)inChenyu Zhao(Founder)inDmytro Ivchenko(Founder)inJames Reed(Founder)inLin Qiao(Founder)in
Co-investorsArtisanal VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersIndex VenturesInsight PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Ventures+10 more
Gatik develops Level 4 autonomous trucks for regional freight and e-commerce delivery, operating commercial fleets for retailers including Walmart, Loblaw, Kroger, and others.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSilicon Valley, US
Gautam Narang(CEO)inArjun Narang(CTO)inApeksha Kumavat(Chief Engineer)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundDynamo VenturesFlucas VenturesFontinalis PartnersFraser McCombs Capital+12 more
Glean provides an AI-powered workplace search and knowledge management platform that connects company data across documents, messages, tickets, and systems to help teams access information and complete work.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSilicon Valley, US
Arvind Jain(Founder & CEO)inTony Gentilcore(Co-founder, Engineering)inT.R. Vishwanath(Co-Founder and Technical Infrastructure Lead)inPiyush Prahladka(Co-Founder Emeritus)in
Co-investorsAdvaita CapitalCategory VenturesCoatue ManagementCold Start VenturesCraft VenturesDash VC+27 more
Heart Aerospace develops electric regional aircraft for commercial airline operators.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechClimate TechHardwareSpace TechLos Angeles, US
Anders Forslund(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsBreakthrough Energy Ventures2am VCAlumni VenturesCastor VenturesLowercarbon CapitalSagitta Family Office+14 more
European AI company bringing AI-native software to defense systems; raised a $1.8B Series E.
Dr. Gundbert Scherf(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAlkeon InnovationFelicis VenturesGeneral CatalystICONIQLightspeed Venture Partners+5 more
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HUNGRY provides office food solutions and catering services, partnering with local chefs and restaurants to supply meals to corporate clients.
Enterprise SoftwareFoodTechFuture of WorkImpact & Social Good
Jeff Grass(Founder)in
Co-investorsBread And Butter Ventures, LlcEvolution VC PartnersFlucas VenturesMotley Fool VenturesSand Hill AngelsStudio Management+1 more
Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company that combines clinical trial expertise with AI to help research teams and study sponsors expand and speed up patients' access to novel therapeutics.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechCambridge, US
Jonathan Ng(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardPeter Moran(Director)Nan Li(Director)inCharles Cooney(Director)
Co-investors515 VenturesAlumni VenturesBreyer CapitalG Vision CapitalGV (Google Ventures)IKJ Capital+13 more
Navier builds the N30, an electric hydrofoil boat that flies above the water using a canard foil configuration and a proprietary flight control system that actively adjusts aileron flaps based on real-time sensor feedback.
CleantechHardwareMobility & Transportation
Sampriti Bhattacharyya(Founder & CEO)inKenny Jensen(CTO)
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesFOG VenturesMarketX VenturesNextView VenturesSoma CapitalGlobal Founders Capital+2 more
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sam Altman(Co-founder & CEO)Elon Musk(Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member)inGreg Brockman(Co-founder & President)inIlya Sutskever(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inWojciech Zaremba(Co-founder)inJohn Schulman(Co-founder (departed 2024))
Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalA-Rod CorpA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAdvent InternationalAliya Capital Partners+94 more
Overview AI builds AI-powered vision systems that detect manufacturing defects in real-time across production lines, learning and adapting to any product within hours.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoTRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Austin Appel(Founder)inRussell Nibbelink(Founder)inChristopher Van Dyke(Founder)inXiaoyang Kao(Co-Founder & Head of Engineering)in
BoardStanton Green(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBlumberg CapitalCorrelation VenturesGV (Google Ventures)HomebrewMomenta Ventures+12 more
Paribus was a consumer service that automatically monitored users' online purchases and claimed refunds when prices dropped after purchase.
ConsumerE-commerceFintechNew York City, US
Karim Atiyeh(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlockchain CoinvestorsCapital B Private HoldingsConversion CapitalSoma CapitalVaranium Capital AdvisorsY Combinator+5 more
Periodic Labs is an AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories focused on the physical sciences, such as discovering higher-temperature superconductors and automating materials design.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew MaterialsMenlo Park, US
Ekin Dogus Cubuk(Co-founder)inLiam Fedus(Co-founder)inDogus Cubukin
Co-investorsAccelAndreessen HorowitzFelicis VenturesElad GilEric SchmidtNVentures+20 more
An AI-powered answer engine providing accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to questions.
San Francisco, US
Andrew D. Konwinski(Executive Officer, Director)Dzianis Yarats(Director)Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan(Director, Executive Officer)Aravind Srinivas(Co-founder & CEO)inDenis Yarats(Co-founder & CTO)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
Co-investors1435 Capital359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX Ventures+59 more
Populus provides data and software platforms that help cities manage mobility planning and decision-making.
Data & InfrastructureGovTechMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US
Regina Clewlow(Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer)inFletcher Foti(Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist)inRegina Clewlaw(Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer)
BoardCharles Hudson(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAmerican Family VenturesComcast VenturesMerian VenturesStorm VenturesUlu Ventures+6 more
RapidSOS operates a safety network that connects public safety agencies, enterprises, and consumer/corporate devices to provide critical context and pre-arrival intelligence to emergency responders and 911 dispatchers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechNew York, US
Nicholas Horelik(Executive Officer)inMichael Martin(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardDan Nova(Director)Matthew Bozik(Director)
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAlumni VenturesApax DigitalAvanta VenturesBasecamp FundCity Light+18 more
Scout develops Fury, a multimodal foundation model for defense robotics that lets operators command fleets of heterogeneous ground, air, sea, and space robots via natural language and coordinate them autonomously.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRoboticsSilicon Valley, US
Colby Adcock(Founder)inCollin Otis(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlign VenturesBooz Allen VenturesBVVCCliff CapitalDecisive PointDraper Associates+9 more
Siphox Health develops early diagnostic testing technology to detect and manage chronic diseases at home, delivered as a painless 5-minute test that enables frequent monitoring.
Digital HealthHealthtechLongevityMedical DevicesWellness & FitnessBoston, US
Michael Dubrovsky(Co-Founder)inDiedrik Vermeulen(Founder)in
Co-investorsDuke Capital PartnersIntel CapitalLongeVCNeer Venture PartnersOverlap HoldingsY Combinator+15 more
Sorcero develops AI-powered intelligence solutions for the life sciences industry, helping companies accelerate patient access to therapies and improve medical research and communications.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesWashington, US
Dipanwita Das(CEO and Co-founder)inRichard Graves(Executive Officer, Director)inWalter Bender(CTO)inClaiborne P. Deming(Director)
BoardOliver Libby(Director)inPeter Hart Callahan(Director)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFirst Trust Capital PartnersHarmonix FundJanuary VenturesMighty CapitalMount Pleasant Ventures+6 more
Starcloud is a deep-tech company building large-scale data center infrastructure designed to operate in space.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningClimate TechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechSemiconductorsSpace TechRedmond, US
Philip Johnston(Founder/CEO)inEzra Feilden(Founder)inAdi Oltean(Founder)inPaul Adrian Oltean(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMorgan Beller(Director)in
Co-investorsAb Capital Holding BVAmbush CapitalCisco InvestmentsDnx VenturesDragon CapitalFUSE+55 more
Toggle provides real-time quality control and part inspection for custom fabrication using computer vision to automatically identify and measure parts against CAD libraries.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardware
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBlackhorn VenturesGlobal BrainPoint72 VenturesPT1Tribeca Venture Partners+3 more
Unlearn develops AI-powered digital twins and data analytics tools to optimize clinical trial design and execution for pharmaceutical companies.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Charles Fisher(Founder & CEO)inAaron Smith(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundDCVC (Data Collective)Eisai Innovation, Inc.Flucas Ventures+6 more
Verge Labs builds AI models trained on multimodal human patient data to predict drug targets and patient populations for clinical development, primarily in neuroscience and central nervous system (CNS) disease.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Alice Zhang(Co-founder & CEO)inJason Chen(Cofounder)inEmily Ripka(Head of Product & Engineering)in
Co-investorsAgent CapitalALS Investment FundBOLD LongevityDraper AssociatesFitz Gate VenturesGreat Oaks Venture Capital+28 more
Autonomous warehouse drone system; headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland
Co-investorsFontinalis PartnersInterwoven VenturesQualcomm VenturesSony Ventures CorporationA.P. Moller HoldingAirbus Ventures+2 more
Xai is a web3 gaming platform that offers incentives, financial support, and infrastructure to game developers building projects on its network.
Crypto & Web3Gaming
Co-investorsAliya Capital PartnersAltoIRA Empire Trust Custodian FBO Abul Jamal Roth IRAApollo Asset ManagementAsymmetricDragon CapitalEmoote+7 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AsylonCertaCYERAEnableExpoGroqKrakenMedivisPositronStatusProSynchronThinking MachinesVarda Space
Exits · 2
1 IPOs · 1 acquisitionsPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Gatik · techcrunch.com · Aug 25, 2026
Starcloud · techcrunch.com · Aug 21, 2026
Castelion · techcrunch.com · Aug 20, 2026
Databricks · techcrunch.com · Aug 13, 2026
Perplexity · perplexity.ai · Aug 6, 2026
Anthropic · Anthropic Newsroom · Aug 4, 2026
Anduril · geekwire.com · Jul 24, 2026
OpenAI · openai.com · Jul 21, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Koru Capital made?
- Koru Capital has 51 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited.
- What stage does Koru Capital invest at?
- Koru Capital invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Koru Capital focus on?
- Koru Capital focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Robotics, Semiconductors, Space Tech.
- Who does Koru Capital co-invest with?
- Koru Capital most often shares deals with Alumni Ventures, Y Combinator, Basecamp Fund, among 340 tracked co-investors.
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