Pillar VC — 2026 Investments
7 investments dated 2026 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
Critical minerals midstream refining company building modular technology to convert industrial scrap, black mass and primary feeds into refined nickel, cobalt, copper and rare earth products for Western supply chains.
Burlington, US
Megan O'Connor(Founder)inChad D. Vecitis, PhD(Co-Founder and Chief Scientist)Desirée Plata, PhD(Co-founder & Science Advisor)Gabi Knesel(Executive Officer)Chad Vecitis(Founder)
BoardRaffi Freeman(Executive Officer)in
Board seatBrian Baynes· per SEC Form D · $15M raise · filed May 2026
Co-investorsAutodesk FoundationBroadscaleClean Energy VenturesMuus Climate PartnersVoLo Earth VenturesWovenEarth+2 more
Tycho.AI builds Voyager, a hardware and software stack for autonomous navigation and edge intelligence that operates in GPS- or comms-denied environments for defense and national security applications.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRoboticsCambridge, US
Sertac Karaman(Executive Officer, Director)inThomas Kenney(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRichard D. Clarke(Director)
Board seatJamie Goldstein· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsFirstMark Capital
BoolSi is a platform that compiles hot C or C++ functions in embedded applications into custom digital logic co-processors, generating, verifying, and deploying hardware bitstreams without HDL or a parallel codebase.
Developer ToolsHardwareSemiconductorsBoston, US
Mihailo Isakov(Executive Officer, Director)Branko Milosavljevic(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsCoalitionFifth Quarter Ventures
G5 Labs is working on AI-native software development tooling focused on managing and aligning developer intent rather than hand-maintaining code, aimed at engineering teams facing high volumes of AI-generated code.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Ziniu Wu(Founder)inTim Kraska(Founder)in
Co-investorsSamsung NextBattery Ventures
Logic is a production AI platform where teams write a natural language spec that is turned into a spec-driven agent with typed REST APIs, auto-generated tests, version control, and multi-model routing across providers like GPT, Claude, and Gemini.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US
Steve Krenzel(Founder)inJess Garms(Founder)in
Co-investorsAudacious8VCAlumni VenturesBison VenturesDefined VCGeneral Catalyst+3 more
Mesoware builds a combined hardware-and-software automation system for physical manufacturing, integrating robots, vision, tooling, and safety into modular production lines while its software turns product specs into assembly plans validated in simulation.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareRobotics
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ManadiaVivere Oncotherapies
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.

















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