Tenon Ventures
Venture capitalBoston · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Tenon Ventures focuses on providing smart seed capital to early-stage companies that typically have limited access to such funding, aiming to over-deliver value during critical growth periods where grants, angels, and friends-and-family funding fall short. Drawing on the team's background as successful deep tech investors and founders, the firm offers strategic guidance and network access to help young deep tech companies build value.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 3 people
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What they invest in
from 10 of 12 portfolio companiesHardware ×6Deep Tech ×5AI & Machine Learning ×4Defense Tech ×3Advanced Manufacturing ×2SaaS ×2AdTech ×1Biotech ×1
HQs:United States×7
Investments · 12 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12021 · 12 dated
Advanced Silicon Group works in nanotechnology, using the tagline "Nanotechnology for Life."
BiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesNew MaterialsSemiconductorsLowell, US
Marcie Black(CEO & Co-founder)William Rever(Executive Officer, Director)Alan Watson(Director)Sarah Kelly(Director)Bill Rever(Chief Marketing and Sales Officer & Co-founder)
Fabri is an advanced manufacturing company modernizing investment casting with software and automation, operating software-defined foundries to produce cast metal parts.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareBoston, US
Steven Davis(Chief Executive Officer and President of Issuer)Thomas Cole(Secretary and Treasurer)Fabri Founder(Founder)
BoardAlex Poulin(Director)
FightCamp provides home boxing and martial arts training equipment and coaching, combining a hardware console with trackers and wraps alongside a structured digital training platform.
ConsumerGamingHardwareLos Angeles, US
Khalil Zahar(Founder/CEO)inPatrick Chandler(Founder/CMO)inAlexandre Marcotte(Founder/CTO)
Free Candy Agency partners with emerging brands and small teams to build growth frameworks, reach customers, and drive revenue.
AdTechMarketing Tech
Myrias Optics uses direct nanoimprint lithography with proprietary all-inorganic imprinting inks to replicate flat optics — including metaoptics, metalenses, and AR waveguides — at wafer scale in a single-step process.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareAmherst, US
James Joseph Watkins(Executive Officer, Director)John Fijol(Executive Officer)Patrick Tan(Executive Officer, Promoter)James J. Watkins(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardStuart Nixdorff(Director)Myron Kassaraba(Director)
Commercialized low-power display technology for mobile devices based on microfabricated light shutters.
Product Genius is an AI/ML company applying deep learning and language model technology to its products.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechE-commerceSaaS
Ben Vigoda(CEO & Chief Scientist)
Pioneer in fiber-deep optical networking technologies for last-mile telecommunications systems, basis for Verizon FIOS Internet Service.
Samara Aerospace designs and builds high-performance satellite platforms featuring the Hummingbird satellite bus, which combines pointing stability, agility, and power generation in a compact form for commercial, civil, and national security missions.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechSuperior, US
Patrick Haddox(Founder)Vedant(Founder)
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMesodyne · masschallenge.org · Jun 1, 2026
Samara Aerospace · kitalent.com · Mar 1, 2026
Vermeer · finsmes.com · Oct 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Tenon Ventures invest at?
- Tenon Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Tenon Ventures focus on?
- Tenon Ventures focuses on Consumer, Deep Tech, Energy, Hardware, New Materials, SaaS.
- Where is Tenon Ventures located?
- Tenon Ventures is headquartered in Boston, US.
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