NewBuild.VC
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 11 people tracked
Investment thesis
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.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 11 people
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What they invest in
from 20 of 22 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Logistics & Supply Chain ×9Enterprise Software ×8SaaS ×7Cloud Computing ×3Developer Tools ×3Data & Infrastructure ×2Deep Tech ×2
HQs:United States×10India×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×73 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history
Centrata ×2Convoy Inc ×2Qualcomm ×2
Investments · 22 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12022 · 12015 · 13 dated
Aquantia was a fabless semiconductor company designing high-speed multi-gigabit Ethernet connectivity chips for data centers, enterprise networking, and automotive applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSemiconductorsSan 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)Ramin 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 seatRohini Chakravarthy· per SEC Form D · $35M raise · filed Apr 2015
Co-investorsCelesta CapitalGLOBALFOUNDRIESLightspeed Venture PartnersOpus CapitalPaxion CapitalPinnacle Ventures+2 more
Snowflake is a fully managed cloud data platform that integrates data ingestion, processing, analysis, and AI application development across multiple cloud providers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSan Mateo, US
Benoit Dageville(Executive Officer, Director)inMarcin Zukowski(Executive Officer)Thierry Cruanes(Executive Officer, Director)Jeffrey T. Balaguras(Executive Officer)Matthew Glickman(Executive Officer)Barbara Walkowski(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementEQUIAMForgePoint CapitalHigh AlphaHuman CapitalICONIQ+10 more
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsNeythri Futures FundNotable CapitalPelion Ventures
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)inSaurabh Agarwal(Chief Architect)
Co-investorsBlackhorn VenturesCota Capital
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)Lane Shackleton(Chief Product Officer)
BoardReid Hoffman(Board Member (Greylock Partner; LinkedIn Co-Founder))Hemant Taneja(Board Member (General Catalyst))
Co-investorsDria VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock PartnersHomebrewKhosla VenturesKleiner Perkins+8 more
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)inEhsan Kamalinejad(Founder)
Co-investorsCandou VenturesFPVGlobal Catalyst Partners JapanLux CapitalMayfield FundVSC Ventures+1 more
Drumkit develops AI automation software for freight brokerage operations.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Dhruv Gupta(Founder)inDhruv Smith(CTO at Drumkit)
Co-investorsOne Way Ventures
Co-investors4impact capitalAct Venture CapitalACT Venture CapitalAmadeus Capital SAAngel Physicians FundAnkur Capital+59 more
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 VenturesChiratae VenturesIron PillarNext47
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)Palash Soni(Co-Founder & CEO)inKishore K(Co-Founder)Aashish Srinivas(CTO)Kelly Cheng(CMO)Lauren Creedon(Chief Product Officer)
Co-investorsAfore CapitalHubSpot VenturesUnderscore VCUnusual Ventures
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)
Co-investorsFoster VenturesPermanent Capital VenturesPrimary Venture PartnersInsight PartnersPrimaryVMG Partners
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 DragonEv3 Ventures LlcWintermuteJump CapitalSamsung Next
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)inAndrew Huff(Founder)in
Co-investorsNew Stack VenturesY Combinator
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
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesAmboy Street VenturesBIOSPRING PARTNERSBonfire VenturesCollide CapitalCongruent Ventures+13 more
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)Roopak Parikh(Founder)Sirish Raghuram(Founder)
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesCelesta CapitalCelesta CapitalCota CapitalNGP CapitalRedpoint Ventures+1 more
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
Co-investorsFinTech VenturesSilicon Road Ventures
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)inGiulia Cecilia Fanti(Executive Officer, Director)Muckai Krishnan Girish(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Dr. MuckAI Girish(Co-founder & CEO)Dr. Vyas Sekar(Co-founder & Chief Technologist)inDr. Giulia Fanti(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESFoster VenturesMilliways VenturesTen13
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-investorsIndigoEdgeNGP CapitalQualcomm VenturesTitan CapitalTrifecta Capital AdvisorsEight Roads Ventures+2 more
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)A. K. Schultz(CEO & Co-Founder)Jim Hodson(Co-Founder & SVP of Customer Operations)inA.K. Schultz(Founder)inMichael Howes(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsDynamo VenturesKoch Disruptive TechnologiesNGP CapitalNRVSchematic Ventures
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))inJeff Heine(Founding Member & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO))inNeal Silbert(Chief Product Officer (CPO))inAdam G. Frew(Chief Marketing Officer (CMO))Dr. Sebastian Walter(Head of Engineering)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalMango CapitalSierra VenturesBoxGroupKing River CapitalPassion Capital+1 more
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 & TransportationSaaS
Ritu Narayan(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAngelPadBMW i VenturesClearvision VenturesClimate InvestmentDnx VenturesFundersClub+10 more
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
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Truera · theaiinsider.tech · Jul 17, 2026
Coda · TechCrunch · Jul 14, 2026
ShadowFax · indianstartupnews.com · Jul 13, 2026
Cognichip · semiengineering.com · Jul 13, 2026
Zum · finsmes.com · Apr 20, 2026
Rockfish Data · gamesindustry.biz · Apr 9, 2026
Pull Logic · hypepotamus.com · Jan 22, 2026
Lyric · finsmes.com · Dec 3, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has NewBuild.VC made?
- NewBuild.VC has 21 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, 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, Foster Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, among 105 tracked co-investors.
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