Laude Ventures
Venture capitalAtherton · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
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 25, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 14 of 15 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14Enterprise Software ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×4Cloud Computing ×2Deep Tech ×2Consumer ×1Cybersecurity ×1
HQs:United States×5
Investments · 15 tracked
founders shown can be your intro path
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)
Co-investorsMonta Vista CapitalSamsung NextUnanimous Capital
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
Sam Partee(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersGaruda VenturesNeotribe VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcSYN Ventures
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
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAtacama VenturesFelicis VenturesSancus VenturesKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture Partners
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
Co-investors1Flourish CapitalAviso Ventures
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
Co-investorsEssence Venture Capital
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
Roger Wang(Founder)Woosuk Kwon(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzRedpoint VenturesSequoia CapitalStriker Venture Partners
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
Co-investors.406 VenturesEssence Venture Capital
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 & InfrastructurePalo Alto, US
Jared Quincy Davis(Founder)in
Co-investorsConvictionMulticoin CapitalRedpoint VenturesSequoia Capital
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
Co-investorsZigg Capital
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-investors359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX VenturesArrington Capital+49 more
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
Tete Xiao(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAIX VenturesDCVC (Data Collective)Neotribe VenturesBraidwellCDP Venture Capital+3 more
SigIQ builds AI-powered 1:1 tutors designed to deliver personalized private tutoring to students at the cost of computation rather than the price of human tutors.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechBerkeley, US
Karttikeya Mangalam(Founder)in
Co-investorsCalibrate VenturesPeak XV PartnersGSV VenturesHouse
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
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
Co-investorsTyche PartnersVine Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPerplexity · cryptonews.com · Aug 20, 2026
Mithril · dwarfeatsmountain.wiki · Aug 1, 2026
Arena · blazersedge.com · Jul 17, 2026
Proxima · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 7, 2026
Arcade · citybiz.co · Jun 22, 2026
1271 · trysignalbase.com · Mar 6, 2026
Inferact · inferact.ai · Jan 22, 2026
SigIQ · india.entrepreneur.com · Apr 8, 2025
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.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamPete Sonsini, Laude Ventures | Databricks Data+AI Summit 2025
SiliconANGLE theCUBE · Pete Sonsini
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