How many investments has NewBuild.VC made?

NewBuild.VC has 20 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.

What stage does NewBuild.VC invest at?

NewBuild.VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.

Where is NewBuild.VC located?

NewBuild.VC is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.

Who does NewBuild.VC co-invest with?

NewBuild.VC most often shares deals with NGP Capital, Cota Capital, Foster Ventures, among 80 tracked co-investors.

NewBuild.VC

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Palo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 11 people tracked

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NewBuild is a thematic early-stage investor focused on the physical enterprise, spanning enterprise supply chains from materials procurement through manufacturing, warehousing, supplier management, and logistics. The firm believes market disruptions, sustainability, security, and geopolitical shifts are driving demand for supply chain resilience, while cloud, data, AI, and robotics have reached historic technology readiness. Its investors maintain a prepared mind by engaging in both industry and technology ecosystems, helping entrepreneurs identify needs, plan market entry, and scale new categories. A network of industry advisors assists in sourcing, evaluating, and building companies. Themes include agentic workflows, procurement, logistics, and AI for manufacturing.

Invests inAdvanced Manufacturing AI & Machine Learning Cloud Computing Data & Infrastructure Deep Tech Enterprise Software Logistics & Supply Chain Robotics SaaS Semiconductors North America Palo Alto United States

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Stage

Pre-Seed–Series A

Palo Alto, CA, US

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2023

Tracked investments

Unicorns

Acquisitions

Team · 11 people

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Chad Bailey· Partner· Oakland, California, United Statesin

An investor at NewBuild focused on logistics, freight risk, unique datasets, and procurement themes.

chad@newbuild.vc

Rohini Chakravarthy· Managing Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain

Member of the Investment Advisory Council advising on market intelligence and deal flow sourcing.

rohini@newbuild.vc

Dr. Madhav Durbha· Venture Partner

Venture Partner providing supply chain practitioner perspective with over 25 years in the industry. Previously Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy at Coupa Software and held leadership positions at multiple supply chain software companies. Ph.D. in chemical engineering and recognized as a Supply Chain Pro to Know.

Madhav Durbha· Venture Partner· Suwanee, Georgia, United Statesin

A supply chain practitioner and 'Supply Chain Pro to Know' award recipient who advises companies on diligence and post-investment value. Formerly VP of Supply Chain Strategy at Coupa, with prior roles at LLamasoft, Kinaxis, BlueYonder and i2. Holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida.

madhav@newbuild.vc

Aparna· Advisor· San Francisco Bay Areain 𝕏

CVP at Microsoft leading Generative Media AI products and a board member at eBay. Previously Chief Product Officer at Robinhood and a VP at Google for nearly 13 years overseeing product for several internet-scale AI products.

Dr. Prith Banerjee· Advisor

Advisor and technology executive with extensive experience in semiconductor design, EDA, and industrial innovation. Currently SVP at Synopsys following acquisition of Ansys where he served as CTO. Prior roles include CTO at Schneider Electric and Accenture, and academic leadership at Northwestern University.

Pankaj· Advisor· Los Altos, California, United Statesin 𝕏

SVP and GM, North America at AI21 Labs and an angel investor in enterprise SaaS and AI startups. Previously VP of Product and Data Partnerships at Databricks and a partnerships leader at Google Cloud. Holds a CS degree from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Partha· Advisor· San Francisco, Californiain 𝕏

A technology leader with over 20 years in cloud computing and logistics tech, currently CTO at Project44 with prior senior roles at Citrix and Nutanix. Holds a B.Tech in CS from IIT Madras and an M.S. in CS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Prith Banerjee· Advisor· Palo Alto, California, United Statesin

SVP of the Simulation and Analysis Incubation Group at Synopsys (following Ansys' acquisition) and former CTO of Ansys. Advises the NewBuild investment team on corporate LP partners and AI investments and advises the portfolio on technology and market strategy. Holds a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.

RD Deshmukh· Advisor· Atlantain

A supply chain executive with over two decades in eCommerce, distribution, logistics and engineering. SVP of Engineering and Innovation at ID Logistics and formerly a leader at Amazon. Holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and a master's in management.

Scott· Advisor

Co-Founder and CEO of energy data platform 257.co, previously SVP and GM of the platform business at Roku where he helped scale the advertising business and the Roku Channel. Earlier founded/led Umami and held roles at Rovi and ReplayTV.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through NewBuild.VC went on to found or lead other companies.

AparnaAdvisorFounded Google PankajAdvisorFounded AI21 Labs

What they invest in

from 19 of 20 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×15Logistics & Supply Chain ×9Enterprise Software ×8SaaS ×7Developer Tools ×3Cloud Computing ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Deep Tech ×2

HQs:United States×9India×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 15 portfolio companies

20%

solo founders

3 of 15 mapped founding teams

33%

repeat founders

of 30 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×32 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×2

Where their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with education data

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ×4Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×3Harvard Business School ×2Harvard University ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2Savitribai Phule Pune University ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 29 founders with field-of-study data

Engineering ×15Computer Science ×9Business & Management ×5Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 30 founders with career history

Microsoft ×3Oracle ×3Centrata ×2Convoy Inc ×2Google ×2Grammarly ×2Qualcomm ×2Stanford University ×2

6 founders hold a PhD · 6 hold an MBA (of 31 with degree data)

Investments · 20 tracked

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By year:2025 · 1 2022 · 1 2015 · 13 dated

Aquantiamarvell.com in 𝕏Mar 2015acquired by Marvell Technology · May 2019 · $452MSEC filingmedium confidence

Marvell designs custom silicon and provides interconnect and network switch products for AI data center infrastructure, serving hyperscalers, enterprises, and telecom carriers.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSemiconductorsSan Jose, US

Phil Delansay(Co-Founder; President & CEO (2004-2009), later SVP Business Development)Ramin Farjadrad(Co-Founder; Chief Architect (2005-2012), later VP Technology Development)inRamin Shirani(Senior Vice President, Engineering; Director)Linda Reddick(Senior Vice President, Finance (previously Chief Financial Officer, Sept. 2009-Jan. 2016))Phillippe Delansay(Executive Officer)Mark Voll(Chief Financial Officer)

Board seat Rohini Chakravarthy· per SEC Form D · $35M raise · filed Apr 2015

Co-investorsAllegisCyber Capital August Capital Celesta Capital Cisco Investments GLOBALFOUNDRIES ICCP Venture Partners +11 more

Cacheflowgetcacheflow.com 𝕏acquired by HubSpot

No-code quoting, approvals, and subscription checkout platform (acquired by HubSpot).

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsFirebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc GV (Google Ventures)Neythri Futures Fund Notable Capital Granite Asia Pelion Ventures

Canyon Codecanyoncode.ai in

Canyon offers a workflow intelligence layer that gives enterprises visibility into the cost and performance of AI workflows across models, agents, and tool calls.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Ravikiran Gopalan(CEO & Founder)inAditya Akella(Chief Scientist & Co-Founder)in Saurabh Agarwal(Chief Architect)in

Co-investorsBlackhorn Ventures Cota Capital

Codacoda.io in 𝕏acquired by Grammarly · Dec 2024

Coda (now Superhuman Docs) is a collaborative workspace platform that combines document editing, database tables, and application-building capabilities for teams.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSMountain View, US

Shishir Mehrotra(Co-Founder & CEO (Coda); later CEO of Grammarly / Superhuman, Inc. from Dec 2024)inAlex DeNeui(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)inLane Shackleton(Chief Product Officer)in

Board Reid Hoffman(Board Member (Greylock Partner; LinkedIn Co-Founder))in Hemant Taneja(Board Member (General Catalyst))in

Co-investorsArba LLC Dria Ventures General Catalyst General Partnership Greylock Partners Homebrew +14 more

Cognichipcognichip.ai in 𝕏

Cognichip develops Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI), an AI system designed to accelerate semiconductor design by reducing design effort and time-to-market for chip manufacturers.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSemiconductorsRedwood City, US

Faraj Aalaei(Founder)in Ehsan Kamalinejad(Founder)in

Co-investorsCandou Ventures FPV Global Catalyst Partners Japan Lux Capital Mayfield Fund VSC Ventures +3 more

Drumkitdrumkit.ai in 𝕏

Drumkit develops AI automation software for freight brokerage operations.

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Dhruv Gupta(Founder)inDhruv Smith(CTO at Drumkit)

Co-investorsFounder Collective One Way Ventures

Freehandfreehand.ai in 𝕏

Freehand builds AI agent teams that audit vendor and carrier invoices, enforce contracts, and resolve billing disputes across enterprise supply chains, posting validated outcomes back to ERP systems with an auditable trace.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Nitin Jayakrishnan(Founder)inAbhijeet Manohar(Founder)in

Co-investorsBattery Ventures Chiratae Ventures Iron Pillar Next47 Inspired Capital

Goldcastgoldcast.io inJun 2022

Goldcast provides an AI-powered platform for creating and repurposing video content such as webinars, field events, video podcasts, and customer testimonials, using agentic workflows to turn long-form video into clips, blogs, emails, and social posts.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US

Kishore Kothandaraman(Cofounder)inPalash Soni(Co-Founder & CEO)inKishore K(Co-Founder)Aashish Srinivas(CTO)in Kelly Cheng(CMO)in Lauren Creedon(Chief Product Officer)in

Co-investorsAfore Capital HubSpot Ventures Underscore VC Unusual Ventures Array Ventures Management Llc Kearny Jackson +2 more

Lyriclyric.tech inSep 2025

Lyric builds a supply chain decision platform with composable, ready-to-use apps, native data integrations, and configurable workflows powered by supply chain algorithms and science.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Ganesh Ramakrishna(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAidenlair Capital Foster Ventures Permanent Capital Ventures Primary Venture Partners Atlantic Vantage Point AXA Venture Partners +3 more

MachineFimachinefi.com 𝕏

Trio is a multi-modal AI model engine that processes video, audio, and sensor data for operational intelligence in physical environments like retail, warehouses, and factories.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

Co-investorsDraper Dragon Ev3 Ventures Llc Wintermute Jump Capital Samsung Next

Manifold Freightmanifoldfreight.com in

Manifold provides a platform for freight carriers and brokers to identify, bid on, and automate quoting for spot freight loads from customer portals and email.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSeattle, US

Oliver Jones(Founder)in Andrew Huff(Founder)in

Co-investorsNew Stack Ventures Soma Capital Y Combinator Unpopular Ventures

Onramp Payments, Inc.onrampcard.com

Onramp provides a payments platform designed for trucking carriers and merchants, enabling digital payment processing, pricing control, and fraud prevention.

FintechLogistics & Supply Chain

Co-investorsCanaan Partners

Platform9platform9.com in 𝕏

Platform9 provides a managed private cloud platform that allows enterprises to run virtual machines and containers on existing on-premise hardware infrastructure.

Cloud ComputingSan Jose, US

Madhura Maskasky(Founder)in Roopak Parikh(Founder)in Sirish Raghuram(Founder)in

Co-investorsCanvas Ventures Celesta Capital Cota Capital NGP Capital Redpoint Ventures Menlo Ventures +2 more

Pull Logicpulllogic.com in 𝕏

Pull Logic builds availability intelligence software that shifts enterprise supply chains from static planning to continuous, real-time readiness to protect product availability, capture demand, and reduce excess inventory.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Karl Swensen(Founder)in

Co-investorsFinTech Ventures Silicon Road Ventures

Rockfish Datarockfish.ai in 𝕏

Rockfish generates high-coverage, labeled synthetic data—including rare events, edge cases, anomalies, and drifts—from a customer's schema, sample, or production export to build evaluation sets for testing AI models and agents.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US

Vyas Sekar(Executive Officer, Director)inDr. MuckAI Girish(Co-founder & CEO)Dr. Vyas Sekar(Co-founder & Chief Technologist)inDr. Giulia Fanti(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Nathan Haugo(Co-founder & VP Platform Eng)inJeffrey Hummel(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURES Foster Ventures Milliways Ventures Ten13 NGP Capital

ShadowFaxshadowfax.in in 𝕏

Shadowfax operates a logistics and delivery network in India, using a crowdsourced fleet of trucks, delivery partners, and agents to provide same-day and next-day courier and delivery services.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceLogistics & Supply Chain

Abhishek Bansal(Founder)inPraharsh Chandra(Founder)in

Co-investorsNGP Capital Qualcomm Ventures Titan Capital Trifecta Capital Advisors Eight Roads Ventures International Finance Corporation +1 more

SVT Roboticssvtrobotics.com in 𝕏

SVT Robotics develops the SOFTBOT Platform, software that connects enterprise systems with robots and automation technology for faster integration in supply chain and warehouse operations.

Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSaaSWilliamsburg, US

Albert K. Schultz(Executive Officer, Director)Jim Hodson(Co-Founder & SVP of Customer Operations)inA. K. Schultz(Founder)inMichael Howes(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsDynamo Ventures Koch Disruptive Technologies NGP Capital NRV Schematic Ventures Cowboy Ventures

Weavweav.ai in

Weav.ai offers an AI-native, agentic decisioning platform for insurers that unifies a company's data, guidelines, and best practices into a centralized knowledge framework, then uses AI agents to generate recommendations for underwriting, premium audit, and claims.

AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS

Peeyush Rai(Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))in Jeff Heine(Founding Member & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO))in Neal Silbert(Chief Product Officer (CPO))in Adam G. Frew(Chief Marketing Officer (CMO))in Dr. Sebastian Walter(Head of Engineering)in

Co-investorsBetter Capital Mango Capital Sierra Ventures Abstract Ventures BoxGroup Commerce Ventures +7 more

Zumridezum.com in 𝕏

Zum provides cloud-based software and logistics optimization for school bus transportation, serving school districts to improve route efficiency, vehicle utilization, safety transparency, and costs.

EdTechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSRedwood City, US

Ritu Narayan(Chief Executive Officer (Founder and CEO))inVivek Garg(Executive Officer, Director)inAbhishek Garg(Executive Officer)inDaniel Berenbaum(Executive Officer)in

Board Bryan Schreier(Director)inArif Lakhani(Director)

Co-investorsAngelPad BMW i Ventures Clearvision Ventures Climate Investment Dnx Ventures FundersClub +15 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

ESG

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.

Exits · 3

3 acquisitions

Aquantiaacq. by Marvell TechnologyCacheflowacq. by HubSpotCodaacq. by Grammarly

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Zum Raises $100 Million From TPG to Accelerate Zum’s Connected Mobility Experience (CMX) and for Continued Growth and Expansion - Zum

Zum · ridezum.com · Apr 16, 2026

Cognichip Raises $60M in Series A Funding

Cognichip · finsmes.com · Apr 2, 2026

Lyric Raises $43.5M in Series B Funding

Lyric · finsmes.com · Aug 5, 2025

Platform9 in the News • Platform9

Platform9 · platform9.com · Apr 8, 2025

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has NewBuild.VC made?: NewBuild.VC has 20 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does NewBuild.VC invest at?: NewBuild.VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does NewBuild.VC focus on?: NewBuild.VC focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Logistics & Supply Chain, Robotics, SaaS, Semiconductors.
Where is NewBuild.VC located?: NewBuild.VC is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
Who does NewBuild.VC co-invest with?: NewBuild.VC most often shares deals with NGP Capital, Cota Capital, Foster Ventures, among 80 tracked co-investors.

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