OVNI Capital
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 11 people tracked
Investment thesis
OVNI Capital combines European roots with a Silicon Valley mindset, supporting European founders as they scale internationally. The firm leads early-stage rounds with conviction, writing checks between $250k and $2m. Its investment focus is on hard tech and radical founders solving societal challenges with disruptive technology. OVNI positions itself as capital with conviction and community with commitment, operating from offices in San Francisco, Berlin, and Paris. The firm also runs content and podcast programming that generates around one million listens per month to help founders gain visibility.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 11 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 27 of 55 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×12Deep Tech ×11Enterprise Software ×6Climate Tech ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Defense Tech ×4Developer Tools ×4Hardware ×4
HQs:France×5United Kingdom×3Germany×1
Investments · 55 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAxeptio develops a consent management platform (CMP) that allows businesses to create customizable, branded consent experiences while ensuring compliance with international data protection regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and others.
AdTechCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSParis, FR
Romain Bessuges-Meusy(CEO & Co-founder)Delphine Dorseuil(Chief Financial Officer & Co-founder)Christophe Landat(Chief Legal Officer & Co-founder)
Lithosquare is an AI platform for mineral discovery and exploration that uses geological expertise and machine learning to identify mineral deposits up to 10 times more efficiently.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechDeep TechHardwareCambridge, GB
Xavier Moya(Founder & CEO)Giles Rodway(CTO)Aymeric Préveral-Etcheverry(CEO)Simon Leclair(COO)
AMI Labs develops advanced AI systems that understand the real world through world models and action-conditioned architectures, enabling intelligent agents with persistent memory, reasoning, and safety controls for industrial automation, robotics, and healthcare applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Yann LeCun(Founder)
BACTA is an AI-powered bioproduction company that uses microorganisms to produce industrial ingredients such as astaxanthin for cosmetics, human nutrition, and animal nutrition markets.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Blue Morpho is a data integration and AI platform that unifies fragmented data across enterprise systems and encodes business logic into a knowledge base, enabling AI agents to provide reliable, explainable answers.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Blynt builds customized speech recognition engines that outperform off-the-shelf models on domain-specific real-world audio, delivered through a workflow for picking base models, composing pre-trained adapters, injecting domain terms and context, and benchmarking word error rate and latency before deployment.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
boxd provides persistent, hardware-isolated Linux virtual machines that can be forked and snapshotted in under 100ms, aimed at developers and AI agents for use cases like dev environments, agent workloads, and per-pull-request preview environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Campus offers personalized running training plans that adapt to a runner's current level, history, and goals, recalculating sessions based on the runner's condition and schedule changes.
ConsumerSports TechWellness & Fitness
FABRIAL is a stealth-mode research lab focused on frontier formal foundations.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechOxford, GB
Foundamental is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies serving the project economy, specifically in infrastructure, architecture, engineering & construction (AEC), heavy supply chains, and specialized manufacturing sectors including shipbuilding, aerospace, and defence.
Construction TechEnterprise Software
Ground A develops ground-to-air directed-energy laser systems for air defense.
Deep TechDefense TechHardware
Phoenix Court is a multi-stage venture capital investment firm backing founders across pre-seed, seed, breakout, and scale stages.
Lithosquare develops an AI platform for mineral exploration that uses physics-based modeling of ore body formation rather than statistical pattern matching.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnergy
This page is an investment portfolio listing from Omnes Capital showing 100+ portfolio companies across multiple sectors including deeptech, renewables, biotech, healthtech, materials, and real estate.
Climate TechEnergyParis, FR
Quantonation is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep-tech companies developing quantum computing, quantum sensing, and related photonic and semiconductor technologies.
Deep TechQuantum Computing
Resolve Stroke develops software-driven ultrasound technology for medical imaging and diagnosis.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesParis, FR
Using quantum light for reagent-free molecular analysis
Trout Software builds cybersecurity tools for industrial and critical infrastructure systems including factories, utilities, transport, and defense networks.
Advanced ManufacturingCybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechIoTStockholm
Michael Oporto(Executive Officer)Matthew Walter(Director)Jeffrey Prestel(Director)Michael Frazzette(Director)Jeffrey Jochims(Director)Yuriy A. Prilutskiy(Director)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does OVNI Capital invest at?
- OVNI Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is OVNI Capital's typical check size?
- OVNI Capital typically writes checks of $250K – $2M.
- What sectors does OVNI Capital focus on?
- OVNI Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Hardware, Medical Devices, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is OVNI Capital located?
- OVNI Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does OVNI Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, OVNI Capital leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamWhy Founders Should Never Cold Email VCs - Augustin Sayer (OVNI Capital)
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Comprendre le venture capital avec Augustin Sayer (OVNI Capital)
Equity Conversations · Augustin Sayer
ITW Thomas RENAUDIN - Analyst OVNI Capital
OVNI(s) · Thomas Renaudin
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