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Laude Ventures

Venture capital

Atherton · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Laude Ventures is an early-stage investor partnering with visionary, deeply technical founders — often computer scientists working at the frontier of research — to help turn their breakthroughs into paradigm-creating companies. The firm positions itself as a 'first follower' of technologists at core moments of discovery, providing early capital and a network of resources to bring innovations to market. Its investments span deeply technical infrastructure and applications, frequently rooted in academic and scientific research, with an emphasis on AI and software. The firm is backed by institutional investors, technical unicorn and decacorn founders, leading computer scientists, AI research leaders, and a Turing Award winner.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Series A
HQ
Atherton, California, US
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2024
AUM
$150M
VC funds
1
Tracked investments
15

Team · 3 people

from public directories

What they invest in

from 13 of 15 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×13Enterprise Software ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×4Cloud Computing ×2Deep Tech ×2Consumer ×1Cybersecurity ×1

HQs:United States×2

Investments · 15 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path
1271narada.aiin𝕏

Narada provides agentic process automation software for enterprises, automating complex workflows across desktop applications, web interfaces, and Citrix environments.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBerkeley, US

Kurt KeutzerDavid Park(Executive Officer, Director)Amir Gholaminejad(Director)

Arcadearcade.devin𝕏

Arcade provides an MCP runtime layer that enables AI agents to securely connect to external tools and business systems through user authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Arenaarena.ai

Arena.ai is a platform for exploring and interacting with frontier AI models; user conversations may be shared with AI providers for research purposes.

AI & Machine Learning

Ask Perplexityperplexity.ai
Clairvoyant Intelclairvoyantintel.com

Clairvoyant provides an enterprise software control plane that inspects and governs every package, update, extension, and AI-generated artifact crossing an organization's software perimeter, integrating with tools like SCCM, Intune, Jamf, secure web gateways, CASBs, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact registries.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Eventualcomputingeventualcomputing.com𝕏

Eventual builds data infrastructure for teams training Physical AI models on video and high-frequency sensor data such as lidar and fleet logs.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Inferactinferact.ai𝕏

Inferact develops inference infrastructure for large language models, building on the open-source vLLM engine to make model serving cheaper and faster.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

Linealinea.aiin

Disarray builds AI research agents designed for long-horizon autonomy over heterogeneous data, using a context graph that captures lineage across data, code, execution history, and documentation to form hypotheses, run experiments, and interpret results.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools

Mithrilmithril.aiin𝕏

Mithril provides cloud compute infrastructure for AI developers, aiming to make compute resources more accessible and efficient without requiring teams to handle capacity planning.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure

Normalnormal.dev

Normal provides the Normal Framework (NF), an open, scalable building automation platform that integrates with and enhances existing BAS and IoT systems across facilities and enterprise portfolios.

AI & Machine LearningIoTPropTech

Proximapromptai.co

Prompt is an Ambient AI product and research company that develops human-centered AI products designed to sense the physical environment.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeep TechSan Francisco, US

SigIQsigiq.ai
Tabsdatatabsdata.comin

Tabsdata is an enterprise real-time data integration platform that uses a table-centric pub/sub model to move data as it becomes available, keeping dashboards, ML models, fraud engines, and operational tools continuously in sync.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Tensormeshtensormesh.aiin𝕏

Tensormesh provides caching infrastructure for AI inference, storing and reusing context that applications send repeatedly to reduce cost and latency.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Voiovoio.comin

Voio is a healthcare AI lab building vision-language models for radiology that generate draft reports from image analysis and help radiologists deliver faster diagnoses.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices

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Frequently asked questions

What stage does Laude Ventures invest at?
Laude Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Laude Ventures focus on?
Laude Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
Where is Laude Ventures located?
Laude Ventures is headquartered in Atherton, US.
Does Laude Ventures lead rounds?
Yes, Laude Ventures leads investment rounds.

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