OVNI Capital
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 11 people tracked
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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 & curated
Founder mafia
2 people who came through OVNI Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 43 of 57 portfolio companiesDeep Tech ×21AI & Machine Learning ×20Enterprise Software ×8Developer Tools ×7SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×6Hardware ×6Climate Tech ×5
HQs:France×6Germany×5United States×5United Kingdom×3Denmark×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 26 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×122 founders×103 founders×24+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with education data
CentraleSupélec ×3École Polytechnique ×2HEC Paris ×2Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 28 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×9Engineering ×5Business & Management ×4Economics ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×3Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 29 founders with career history
Facebook ×3Exaprint ×2Natixis ×2
5 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 28 with degree data)
Investments · 57 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 42025 · 22023 · 22018 · 19 dated
Axeptio 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)inDelphine Dorseuil(Chief Financial Officer & Co-founder)inChristophe Landat(Chief Legal Officer & Co-founder)in
Co-investorsIsai
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)
Co-investorsDaphniWorld FundKfW CapitalSaxoventEIFEuropean Investment Fund
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a16z is a venture capital firm that invests in seed to growth-stage technology companies across artificial intelligence, healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, gaming, and infrastructure sectors.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep Tech
Ricard BoadaSofia Gumuzio
BoardMarc AndreesseninBen Horowitzin
Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitza16z cryptoA16Z SpeedrunBeast VenturesBeyond Earth VenturesBooz Allen Ventures+8 more
AENU is a venture capital firm that invests in founders developing technologies for decarbonization, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable value creation.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsKfW Capital
Alley Corp is a venture capital and investment firm based in New York that builds and invests in transformative companies.
Sector AgnosticNew York, US
Kevin Ryan(Founder & CEO)
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 TechRoboticsParis, FR
Yann LeCun(Founder)Alex LeBrun(Founder)inLaurent Solly(Founder)inMichael Rabbat(Founder)inPascale Fung(Founder)inSaining Xie(Founder)in
Co-investorsAglae VenturesAlpha Intelligence CapitalAlpha Square GroupAvenir Growth CapitalBerliner Volksbank VenturesBitkraft Esports Ventures+27 more
Kirha offers an AI-powered financial analyst tool that reviews lengthy filings such as 10-Ks and earnings calls to surface trends, risks, and opportunities.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsBlockwallKima Ventures
Axeptio provides a no-code consent management platform (CMP) that lets brands and publishers build customizable, video-led cookie banners and consent experiences aligned with GDPR, CCPA, Law 25, and IAB standards.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsIsaiISAI GestionKima VenturesEvolem
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
Co-investorsFly VenturesKima Ventures
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
Benjamin Lalanne(Founder)inAlexandre Caulier(Founder)in
Co-investorsKima Ventures
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
Laurentiu Ciobanu(Founder)in
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
Co-investorsKima Ventures
This page is a team member profile on the website of daphni, a venture capital firm.
Deep TechImpact & Social Good
Pierre-Eric Leibovici(Co-founder & Managing Partner)Etienne Renoux(Chief Financial Officer)inPierre Gallet(Chief Technical Officer)inAurelie Van Peteghem(Partner & Chief Marketing Officer)inClaire Tanguy(Partner & Chief Legal Officer)in
Co-investorsbacktrace capitalBleu CapitalRuna Capital
Epyr develops thermal energy storage solutions for industrial heat electrification, enabling industries to decarbonize and adopt renewable energy.
CleantechClimate TechDeep TechEnergy
Bastien Oggeri(Founder)inLéa Dardenne(Founder)in
Co-investorsDaphniAENUNewfund Capital
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FABRIAL is a stealth-mode research lab focused on frontier formal foundations.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechOxford, GB
This is the personal profile page of Sebastian Bohmer, an industrial engineer and mathematician working in venture capital with a focus on deep tech and energy investing.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Sebastian Bohmer(Founder, Arteus Energy)
Co-investorsBLN CapitalPeakPUSH Ventures
Fly.vc is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage ("zero to one") startups, with a portfolio that has gone on to raise substantial follow-on funding from US and tier-1 European VCs.
Co-investorsKfW CapitalMetavallon VC
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
Co-investorsRobin CapitalVsquared Ventures
GV is Google's venture capital arm that invests in early and mid-stage companies across AI, consumer, enterprise, frontier technology, and life sciences sectors.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
David Krane(CEO & Managing Partner)Dave Munichiello(Managing Partner)inTom Hulme(Managing Partner)inKrishna Yeshwant(Managing Partner)
Co-investorsBeyond Earth VenturesOnstageRogue Insight Capital
Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders, with a focus on Silicon Valley and beyond.
SaaSSector Agnostic
Semil Shah(Founder)in
Co-investorsKfund
Heartcore is a European early-stage venture capital firm that invests in and supports technology founders from inception through liquidity.
ConsumerCrypto & Web3Sector AgnosticCopenhagen, DK
Co-investorsTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)
iSentroniq develops dense, near-heatless cryogenic wiring aimed at overcoming scalability limits in quantum computing hardware.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing
Co-investorsAgoranovHeartcore CapitalHEC Paris IncubatorKima VenturesBetter Angle
Kestrel Intelligence builds autonomous AI systems for real-time tasking and coordination of satellite and sensor networks.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDefense TechBoise, US
Raman Varma(Founder)in
Co-investorsNavigate VenturesContext Ventures
This is a venture capital firm, not a portfolio company.
London, GB
Leila Rastegar Zegna(Founder)in
Co-investorsBeast VenturesIsomer Capital
Co-investorsElevator VenturesKfW CapitalKPN VenturesPeakQC·VENTURESSamsung Catalyst Fund+2 more
Kyber builds real-time control infrastructure that reduces network latency to single-digit milliseconds, enabling operators to remotely control robots, drones, and autonomous systems with minimal delay.
Data & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsHardwareRoboticsParis, FR
Jean-Baptiste Kempf(Founder)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture Partners
Phoenix Court is a multi-stage venture capital investment firm backing founders across pre-seed, seed, breakout, and scale stages.
Co-investorsLocalGlobePhoenix CourtDragoneer Investment GroupLightspeed Venture Partners
Dialogue AI builds an AI-native market research platform that automates study design, participant recruitment, AI-moderated multilingual interviews across text, audio and video, and real-time synthesis, shortening research timelines from weeks to a day or two.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareMarketing TechSaaS
Syed Ali(Founder)Akhil Mantripragada(Founder)Naveen Rao(Founder)MeeLan Lee(Founder)Sara Achour(Founder)Michael Carbin(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzDCVC (Data Collective)Lightspeed Venture PartnersLux CapitalSequoia CapitalIntegra Groupe+7 more
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
Co-investorsKindred CapitalWorld FundDaphniOmnes Capital
Mendo provides enterprise software that measures how teams use generative AI tools, surfacing use cases, prioritizing which AI agents to deploy, and quantifying ROI while keeping usage data anonymous and on-premise.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Quentin Amaudry(Co-founder & CEO)inAlexandre Pinon-Jacques(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsEducapitalEmerge EducationVentech
Mimbi operates a retail media intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies optimize their advertising budgets across retail media networks by aggregating data and providing campaign management tools.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechRetail TechSaaS
Florian Silnicki(Serial entrepreneur, previously Founder and CEO at Lengow, Synetik)Alexandra Patris(Previously CMO at Lengow, product and marketing manager at Criteo)
Co-investorsFounders FutureKima Ventures
MokN provides a cybersecurity detection solution designed to identify external threats more effectively for organizations.
Cybersecurity
Adrien C.(Founder)inAntoine Coudoux, CISSP(Founder)in
Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)Moonfire Ventures
Orchestra builds a unified control plane for data operations, offering orchestration, observability, and data quality monitoring so lean data teams can create governed data pipelines and products without maintaining infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Mattias Ljungman(Founder)Hugo Lu(CEO)inWill Davies(CTO)inMike Arpaiain
NcodiN develops optical interconnect technology based on nanophotonics to enhance AI processor performance and efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Francesco Manegatti(Co-founder, CEO)inFabrice Raineri(Co-founder, CTO)in
Co-investorsElaiaPhotonVenturesVerve Ventures
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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
Serge SAVASTA(Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer)in
Co-investorsIDI Group
OpsMill develops Infrahub, a graph-based data management platform with built-in version control and CI workflows designed for infrastructure automation at scale.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Damien Garros(Co-founder)inRaphael Maunier(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBenhamou Global VenturesIris CapitalSerenaPartech Ventures
Anthropic is an AI company that develops large language models, including its Claude models used by developers.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsDigital HealthHealthtech
Ibrahim(Co-founder)Sezgin(Co-founder)
Co-investorse2vcPoint NineMetavallon VCPeakVintage Investment Partners
Possible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in mission-driven teams building companies with frontier technology.
BiotechClimate TechDeep TechEnergyImpact & Social GoodSpace Tech
Co-investorsBLN Capital
Qtas develops a quantum-sensor-based microscopy platform, described as the world's smallest MRI, that detects, sorts, and recovers intact individual rare cells (such as circulating tumor cells and rare immune cells) directly from unprocessed biological samples like whole blood or spinal fluid.
BiotechDeep TechQuantum Computing
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
Co-investorsRuna CapitalJIC Venture Growth Investments
Resolve Stroke develops software-driven ultrasound technology for medical imaging and diagnosis.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesParis, FR
Vincent(Co-founder)inAritz(CEO)in
Co-investorsQuantonationNewfund Capital
Rift builds long-range electric VTOL drones with autonomous ground stations that launch, recover, and recharge aircraft for persistent aerial surveillance, delivering encrypted live EO/IR video to remote command centers.
Defense TechHardwareRobotics
Mark Verhagen(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorp
Earlybird is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 that backs early-stage technology companies in Europe, focusing on groundbreaking innovations across various sectors.
Sector AgnosticBerlin, DE
Co-investorsCDP Venture CapitalEarlybird DWES Management GmbH & Co. KGKfW CapitalPRIMEPULSE SEYildiz Ventures
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)
Co-investorsEntropy Industrial Capital
Vsquared Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in deeptech startups, backing companies tackling significant technological risks.
Deep TechMunich, DE
Co-investorsBLN CapitalKfW CapitalPractica CapitalPRIMEPULSE SERobin CapitalVsquared Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Arsenals AIBleu RoboticsCassiusQSpeedinvest
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesBoxd · tech.eu · Sep 15, 2026
Ground A · lapaasvoice.com · Sep 9, 2026
Vsquared Ventures · lapaasvoice.com · Sep 9, 2026
Lightspeed Venture Partners · ndtvprofit.com · Aug 31, 2026
SFDR · born2invest.com · Aug 31, 2026
a16z Speedrun · siliconangle.com · Aug 26, 2026
Haystack · siliconangle.com · Aug 18, 2026
Lightspeed · techcrunch.com · Aug 5, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has OVNI Capital made?
- OVNI Capital has 57 tracked investments, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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.
- Who does OVNI Capital co-invest with?
- OVNI Capital most often shares deals with Kima Ventures, KfW Capital, Peak, among 84 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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