Neotribe Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingMenlo Park · Pre-Seed–Growth · 3 people tracked
Also known as NEOTRIBE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
Investment thesis
Neotribe Ventures focuses on identifying bold ideas and unconventional founders who challenge the status quo. The firm invests in early and growth-stage companies tackling complex, deeply impactful problems that can create lasting change, with a preference for outlier, category-defining ideas that most investors would consider too risky. Beyond capital, Neotribe positions itself as a hands-on partner, offering mentorship and expertise. Although a relatively new firm, its founders are described as Silicon Valley veterans with decades of experience as entrepreneurs, operators, and investors, along with deep industry networks used to help accelerate portfolio companies toward success.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 5, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 39 of 69 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×24Enterprise Software ×10SaaS ×9Deep Tech ×6Cleantech ×5Cloud Computing ×5Healthtech ×5Biotech ×4
HQs:United States×33United Kingdom×2
Investments · 69 tracked
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BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that uses molecular counting technology to develop non-invasive prenatal screening and liquid biopsy tests for early disease detection.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Oguzhan Atay, PhD(Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Chair)David Tsao, PhD(Co-Founder, CTO, and Board Member)Oguzhan Atay(Founder)inDavid Tsao(Founder/CTO)inSukrit Silas(Cofounder)
Saratoga, US
Anand Chandrasekher(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)RaviKiran Gopalan(Director)
BoardAsad Khaliq(Director)
Board seatKrishna Kolluri· per SEC Form D · $18.1M raise · filed Mar 2025
San Jose, US
Board seatSwaroop 'Kittu' Kolluri· per SEC Form D · $38.9M raise · filed Feb 2025
San Francisco, US
Brook Ayalneh(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Neeraj Hablani(Director)Bezawit Daniel(Director)
Board seatNeeraj Hablani· per SEC Form D · $4.7M raise · filed Aug 2023
New York, US
James Benjamin Bollas(Executive Officer, Director)Raghav Mecheri(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAlex Hartz(Director)
Board seatNeeraj Hablani· per SEC Form D · $4M raise · filed Mar 2025
Fortanix provides an enterprise data security platform built on confidential computing, offering cryptographic security posture assessment, data encryption and tokenization, enterprise key management with integrated HSMs, and a secure GenAI solution.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Sunil Kurkure(Director)Ashu Garg(Director)Anand Kashyap(Executive Officer, Director)Ambuj Kumar(Executive Officer, Director)Krishna Kolluri(Director)
Board seatSwaroop 'Kittu' Kolluri· per SEC Form D
Cambridge, US
Nikolaos Adrikogiannopoulos(Executive Officer, Director)Ruben Gruber(Director)Swaroop Kolluri(Director)
Board seatSwaroop 'Kittu' Kolluri· per SEC Form D
West Hollywood, US
Board seatKrishna Kolluri· per SEC Form D · $80.3M raise · filed Jul 2024
Quattr is an AI-native search growth platform that unifies SEO, AEO, and GEO on a company's first-party search data, using an AI agent (GIGA) to generate content, build internal-link graphs, ship landing pages, and track AI citations across engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Anurag Singhal(Founder)Neeraj Hablani(Director)
BoardAnupam Rastogi(Director)
Board seatNeeraj Hablani· per SEC Form D
San Francisco, US
Board seatSwaroop 'Kittu' Kolluri· per SEC Form D · $15.5M raise · filed Feb 2021
Yoodli is an AI-powered platform that provides interactive roleplay scenarios to help users improve their communication skills and public speaking confidence.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaSSales TechSeattle, US
Varun Puri(CEO, Co-founder)Esha J.(Chief Customer Officer, Co-founder)Neeraj Hablani(Director)Esha Joshi(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPatrick Ennis(Director)
Board seatNeeraj Hablani· per SEC Form D · $34M raise · filed Dec 2025
EnergyMenlo Park, US
John Fitzgerald Dodaro(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ricardo B Levy(Director)
Arch Systems develops agentic AI software that analyzes factory floor data to provide real-time expert-level guidance to manufacturing teams.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Michael Goguen(Director)Jean Francois Clavier(Director)Gus Shahin(Director)Timothy Burke(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Scheuermann(Executive Officer, Director)
Building scalable quantum computers with reduced complexity and cost to reach error correction at scale.
Cambridge, US
Bharath Kannan(Executive Officer)Simon Gustavsson(Director)
Auditoria AI provides autonomous AI agents that automate accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows, from invoice ingestion, classification, matching, and payment tracking to collections outreach, cash application, and supplier inquiry handling.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Cambridge Terahertz commercializes terahertz sensor technology based on MIT research, delivering compact on-chip radar systems that use non-ionizing radio waves to create 3D images analyzed by AI.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechHardwareCambridge, GB
Nathan Monroe(Executive Officer, Director)Carolyne LaSala Holtorf(Director)Anand Dixit(Director)
CarbonCapture Inc. designs and manufactures modular direct air capture (DAC) systems that use solid sorbents to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with each shipping-container-sized module capable of capturing over 500 tons of CO₂ per year.
CleantechClimate TechHardware
Menlo Park, US
Aditya Singh(Director)David Jevans(Executive Officer, Director)Stephen Ryan(Director)
Doppler provides a secrets management platform for developers, DevOps, and security teams to securely manage sensitive credentials and configuration data within their development workflows.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Brian Vallelunga(Chairman & Founder)in
Emerald AI develops software to enable power flexibility in data centers by orchestrating power demand in response to grid needs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnergyBoston, US
Dr. Varun Sivaram(CEO and Founder)Ayse Coskun(Chief Scientist)inRob Toews(Director)Markus Specks(Director)
Empirico discovers and develops siRNA medicines designed to mimic naturally-occurring genetic variants that have beneficial effects on health and disease.
BiotechHealthtech
Grady is an AI grading tool that evaluates student assignments and exams across subjects and formats, producing question-by-question feedback, grades, and class-level analytics for review and editing by faculty.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Pearl develops AI diagnostic support software for dental providers that analyzes x-rays and imaging to improve diagnosis accuracy, patient communication, and clinic operations.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Ophir Tanz(Founder and CEO)Ben Plomion(Chief Operating Officer)Gad Sakin(Chief Technology Officer)
Inception Cyber develops NACE, an email security platform that uses generative and predictive AI to analyze the intent of messages rather than malicious payloads, aiming to stop business email compromise, phishing, and malware that evade traditional defenses.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
IrisAgent is an AI customer support automation platform that resolves tickets across chat, email, and voice by grounding responses in a company's knowledge base, ticket history, SOPs, and connected systems.
Keebo optimizes cloud data workloads on Snowflake and Databricks using AI algorithms to reduce costs while maintaining service level agreements, serving data teams and organizations managing large-scale data infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure
Barzan Mozafari(Co-Founder)in
MacroCycle uses a proprietary chemical process called SolvoGenesis, based on solvent systems and macrocyclic chemistry, to convert textile waste into pure polyester resin at low cost.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Boston, US
Moichor is an animal diagnostics laboratory providing automated blood count and cytology testing for veterinarians across the United States.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Shevy Karbasi(Founder)inThanh Le(Founder)inMatt Chen(Co-founder)Joe Faiella(CEO)Dr. Kaori Davis(Chief Medical Officer)Liam Cattell(CTO)
NimbleEdge provides on-device AI infrastructure, including Python scripting, real-time data ingestion, event processing, and on-device AI models with voice interactions, RAG/vector databases, model query routing, and tool calling for agentic workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Varun Kumar Khare(Executive Officer, Director)Ayush Bansal(Executive Officer, Director)
Node (IOwnMyData, Inc.) offers a standalone mobile app and patented technology that lets merchants build direct relationships with customers—delivering personalized offers, order history, and 1-click repeat purchases—without requiring account sign-up and without storing or transmitting customer data on servers.
E-commerceMarketing TechRetail TechMenlo Park, US
Plexium is a targeted protein degradation company developing small molecule therapeutics for treating diseases with high unmet medical needs using their proprietary DELTA Discovery platform.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Michael Martin, Ph.D.(Chief Executive Officer, President)Jorge F. DiMartinoMichael Martin(President, Chief Executive Officer)
BoardMike Grey(Executive Chairman)in
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
Revise Robotics builds robotic systems with AI that automate the assessment and refurbishment of discarded electronics for recycling facilities and second-hand resellers.
Advanced ManufacturingRoboticsNew York City, US
Solgraph produces battery-grade crystalline graphite through direct solar pyrolysis of hydrocarbon gas, a process developed from UCLA research that captures graphitic carbon without CO2 emissions.
CleantechEnergyNew Materials
Stax.ai provides automation software for retirement plan Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), automating payroll and census data processing, plan sponsor onboarding, and compliance workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSScottsdale, US
Narendran Muraleedharan(Executive Officer, Director)James Guerra(Secretary)McKenzie Glandorf(Vice President of Client Experience)David Hawash(Chief Operating Officer)Oshiogwe Braimah(Treasurer and Vice President of Finance)King Kenney(Vice President of Marketing)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Fund performance · per public LP disclosures · 2
as of Sep 2025| Fund | Vintage | Committed | Net IRR | TVPI | DPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neotribe Ventures II, L.P.LPs: The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association | 2019 | — | -2.1% | 0.94x | 0.00x |
| NeoTribe Ventures ILPs: The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association | 2017 | — | 17.9% | 2.34x | 0.67x |
Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Neotribe Ventures invest at?
- Neotribe Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
- What is Neotribe Ventures's typical check size?
- Neotribe Ventures typically writes checks of $250K – $2M.
- What sectors does Neotribe Ventures focus on?
- Neotribe Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Robotics, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Neotribe Ventures located?
- Neotribe Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Neotribe Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Neotribe Ventures leads investment rounds.
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Co-investors · 46
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Intel Capital is the corporate venture capital arm associated with Intel, investing in and supporting technology companies as they scale.
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California, run by a team with founder and operator backgrounds. It makes early-stage investments in frontier technology, particularly infrastructure and AI applications.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm known for backing AI and technology founders, emphasizing deep, hands-on partnerships with the companies it funds.
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Felicis Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed founders for over 20 years, leading or co-leading the majority of its investments across seed and Series A rounds.
Madrona Venture Group is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founding teams at seed, early, and acceleration stages, primarily in Seattle, the Bay Area, and beyond.
Canvas Prime (formerly Canvas Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in AI transforming digital health and fintech, leading Series A and B rounds in companies ready to scale.
Nyca Partners is a fintech-focused venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage financial services and technology companies, offering founders strategic support and access to a large advisor network.
HOF Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm investing in companies transforming foundational industries through advanced software and AI.
Hummingbird Ventures is a global venture capital firm that partners with outlier founders across all stages, from inception to IPO.
Friale is an early-stage venture firm run by founders who back companies reimagining software in the age of AI across all verticals.
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