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Trajectory Ventures

Venture capital

New York · Seed–Late Stage · 1 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Trajectory Ventures backs innovative leaders, disruptors, and visionaries driving the digital transformation of the world. Beyond capital, the firm positions itself as an active partner running parallel growth strategies alongside its portfolio, including business development, organic growth, and acquisition growth. It combines investment across Series Seed through Growth stages with hands-on development services such as advisory, growth marketing, financing strategy, and mergers and acquisitions.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Late Stage
HQ
New York, NY, US
Instruments
Equity
Last 12 months
5 investments
Tracked investments
66
Unicorns
4
IPOs
1

Team · 1 people

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What they invest in

from 19 of 66 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×12SaaS ×8Advanced Manufacturing ×5Deep Tech ×4Enterprise Software ×4Robotics ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3Fintech ×3

HQs:United States×15Argentina×1Mexico×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 11 portfolio companies
45%
solo founders
5 of 11 mapped founding teams
47%
repeat founders
of 15 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×52 founders×43 founders×14+ founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data

IE Business School ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×6Business & Management ×3Engineering ×3Finance & Accounting ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history

Appnexus ×2Facebook ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ×2Stanford University ×2

Investments · 66 tracked

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By year:2026 · 22025 · 42024 · 12023 · 22021 · 12015 · 111 dated

HawkEye 360he360.comNYSE: HAWKDec 2025 · $150M

Cyber Fund III portfolio company that completed an initial public offering.

Herndon, US

Christopher Bradley DeMay(Executive Officer)Jaye Alison Alfers(Executive Officer)Simon Mark Davidson(Director)John Sheldon Serafini(Executive Officer, Director)inArthur Lewis Money(Director)David Farnsworth(Director)

Co-investorsCenter15 CapitalGula Tech AdventuresHemisphere Ventures LLCIceNineManhattan Venture PartnersNew North Ventures+13 more

Apptronikapptronik.comin𝕏

Apptronik builds humanoid robots designed to perform repetitive, physically taxing, and dangerous tasks in warehousing and manufacturing environments, aiming to free workers for higher-value activities.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsAustin, US

Jeff Cardenas(CEO)inNicholas Arden Paine(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardClarence Gordon Daugherty, IV(Director)Howard Lee Morgan(Director)inGeorge Samuel Rose(Director)

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAssembly VenturesAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.B Capital GroupB4 CapitalBaseTwoBig Brain Holdings+22 more

Archetype AIarchetypeai.ioin𝕏Series A · Nov 2025 · $35M

Archetype AI builds Physical AI for real-world operations, centered on Newton, a proprietary foundation model that fuses multi-sensor data to perceive and reason about physical environments.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoTSan Mateo, US

Ivan Poupyrev, PhD(Founder)inNick Gillian(Founder)inJaime Lien(Founder)inBrandon Barbello(Founder)inIvan Poupyrev(Founder)inLeonardo Giusti(Founder)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsE12 Venture Capital, LlcEarl Grey CapitalHitachi VenturesStrange VenturesSystemiq CapitalVenrock+1 more

ConverseNowconversenow.aiin𝕏

ConverseNow builds a customizable voice AI system that takes and processes customer orders for restaurants, handling interactions in multiple languages to reduce staffing pressure.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechSaaSAustin, US

Vinay Shukla(Co-Founder & CEO)Rahul Aggarwal(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investors2048 VenturesBridge Venture FundKnoll VenturesMoneta VenturesTensility Venture Partners

Datalogzdatalogz.ioin𝕏Dec 2023 · $5M

Indicium is a data consultancy that helps organizations build data-driven practices by defining strategies, assembling teams, and delivering data platforms and products across data science, analytics, and AI.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSQueens, US

Logan Havern(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsGreatPoint VenturesDefined VCGraphene VenturesMana VenturesSQUADRA VENTURES

Dyna Roboticsdyna.coin𝕏Series A · Sep 2025 · $120M

Dyna develops general-purpose robots powered by foundation models that adapt across environments and learn new skills rapidly, with deployment across a fleet that continuously improves.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics

Lindon Gao(Founder)inJason Ma(Founder)inYork Yang(Founder)in

Co-investorsBig Brain HoldingsCRV (Charles River Ventures)HCVCINCE CapitalLG Technology VenturesSamsung Next+5 more

Emanateemanate.aiin𝕏Seed · May 2026 · $5M

Emanate offers a configurable sales automation engine designed for industrial operations that handles prospect tracking, opportunity management, customer nurturing, and inbound qualification across accounts, emails, and agents.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US

Co-investorsBay Bridge Ventures ClimateGood FriendsM13Andreessen HorowitzFounders Fund

Fastcasualfastcasual.comin

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FoodTechMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Brendan Sweeney(CEO and co-founder)Cherryh Cansler(Publisher)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Formic Technologiesformic.coin𝕏Series B · Oct 2025 · $470K

Formic develops automation and robotics solutions for factories to increase production capacity and reliability while reducing costs, downtime, and safety risks.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsChicago, US

Saman Farid(Founder & CEO)inMisa I.(Founder)in

BoardGarry Tan(Director)in

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBlackhorn VenturesBlue Ivy VenturesCarnrite VenturesChapter OneCorrelation Ventures+10 more

HerculesAIhercules.aiin

Hercules develops enterprise-grade AI workers to automate back-office operational tasks and reduce the knowledge worker deficit.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Alex Babin(Chief Executive Officer)inBeverley Chadwick(Chief Financial Officer)Trevor Bell(Chief Customer Officer)inVictoria Vendolin(Head of People Operations)Harutyun Baghdasaryan(VP of Engineering)inMarkus Sobkowski(Head of AI)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAcorn Pacific VenturesAiSprouts VCBascom VenturesEvolution VenturesFlyer One VenturesGutbrain Ventures+8 more

Kapital Bankkapital.mxin𝕏

Kapital is a financial services platform offering digital banking, payment processing, and investment products in Mexico.

FintechSaaSMexico City, MX

Rene Saul(Founder)inFernando Sandoval Oseguera(Founder)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAccial CapitalBroom VenturesCervinColabora VenturesFoundersX VenturesKube VC+7 more

Machina Labsmachinalabs.aiin𝕏

Machina Labs builds and operates software-defined factories using AI-guided robotics to manufacture complex metal structures and components from digital designs.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsChatsworth, US

Edward Mehr(Executive Officer, Director)inBabak Raeisi Nia(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPeter Lee(Director)inScott Brady(Director)inSam Smith-Eppsteiner(Director)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAIX VenturesAlumni VenturesAtento CapitalBalerion Space VenturesCadron Capital PartnersCongruent Ventures+12 more

Neurophosneurophos.cominSeed · Oct 2023 · $7M

Neurophos develops photonics and metamaterials-based compute hardware, combining optical systems with analog and digital silicon.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductorsAustin, US

Patrick Bowen(Executive Officer, Director)inAndrew Traverso(Founder)inHod Finkelstein(Executive Officer)inPreston Woo(Executive Officer)in

BoardChristopher Alliegro(Director)Nathan Kundtz(Director)

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBeyond Earth VenturesBosch VenturesBuilder CapitalDnx VenturesDuke Capital Partners+10 more

Odys Aviationodysaviation.comin𝕏Pre-Seed · Jul 2021 · $4M

Odys designs and builds long-range, hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for defense, logistics, and civil applications.

Advanced ManufacturingClimate TechDefense TechLogistics & Supply ChainSpace TechLos Angeles, US

James Dorris(Founder)inAxel Radermacher(Founder)in

Co-investorsGiant Ventures Global LlpOlive Tree CapitalOUTBOUND CAPITALY CombinatorZillionizeCountdown Capital+2 more

Portal Space Systemsportalsystems.spaceSeries A · Mar 2026 · $50M

Portal Space Systems develops advanced spacecraft, including its flagship Supernova vehicle, designed for high delta-v maneuverability and multi-orbit operations in cislunar space.

Deep TechHardwareSpace TechWashington, US

Jeffery Thornburg(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ian Vorbach(Director)inPrashaanth Ravindran(Director)in

BoardRayfe Gaspar-Asaoka(Director)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAlleyCorpBooz Allen VenturesFUSEGeodesic CapitalIceNineTFX Capital+6 more

Symitrisymitri.cominMay 2024 · $5M

Symitri is a performance marketing technology company whose product, Prism, aims to deliver marketing outcomes across the open Internet for advertisers and publishers while preserving consumer data privacy.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSDayville, US

Bill Wheaton(CEO and Co-Founder)inMichael Fay(COO)inJeremy Stanton(SVP, Engineering)inPaul Wyrembak(Vice President, Client Services)inDavid Kohl(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJeffrey White(Director)

Co-investorsAperiamVentures

Syncterasynctera.comin𝕏

Synctera offers a banking-as-a-service platform with a single set of APIs covering core banking, card processing, money movement, and end-user onboarding, so companies can build fintech and embedded finance products.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSPalo Alto, US

Peter Hazlehurst(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardLogan Allin(Director)inFrederic Latreille(Director)inWilliam Kohler(Director)Ansaf Kareem(Director)inYvette Butler(Director)

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsDiagramEvolution VenturesFin CapitalFlucas VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersNAventures+10 more

Threadsthreads.com

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsApe TerminalAVVMaC Venture Capital

Triple Lifttriplelift.comin𝕏May 2015

TripleLift is a technology company that operates at the intersection of creative, media, and data to drive advertiser engagement and measurable impact.

AdTechData & InfrastructureNew York, US

Ari Lewine(Director)inEric Berry(Executive Officer, Director)inShaun Zacharia(Executive Officer)

BoardRyan Ziegler(Director)inAdam D'Augelli(Director)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsColle Capital PartnersEdison PartnersEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)NextView VenturesRemarkable VenturesSocial Starts+1 more

TrueFoundrytruefoundry.comin𝕏

TrueFoundry provides a unified platform for deploying, governing, scaling, and tracing agentic AI and LLM workloads, including an AI gateway, model hosting, fine-tuning, and observability.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Nikunj Bajaj(Founder)inAbhishek Choudhary(Founder)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsEniac VenturesIntel CapitalMyAsiaVCPeak XV PartnersZ21 VenturesAIX Ventures+2 more

Ualáuala.com.arin𝕏

A regulated bank licensed by Argentina's central bank (BCRA) offering secure digital banking services with focus on account security and data protection.

FintechBuenos Aires, AR

Pierpaolo Barbieri(Founder)in

PartnerPeter Bordes· solo GP

Co-investorsAlleyCorpAllianz XBessemer Venture PartnersChaos VenturesMONASHEESSoftbank Latin America Fund+4 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Airhouse Ecommerce Fulfillment Cloud InfrastructureAirspace Link Drone Aviation InfrastructureAlphasense Ai Market IntelligenceAuthologic Identity InfrastructureBuffer Social MediaClassic LayoutConduit Global Stablecoin PaymentsConversenow Artificial IntelligenceCorelight CybersecurityCrayon Competitive IntelligenceDelphia Artificial Intelligence InvestingDyno Robotics Ai RoboticsFraudnet Ai Fraud Prevention CloudGeneral Robotics Robotics Intelligence InfrastructureGroq Ai Inference InfrastructureHawkeye 360 Insights IntelligenceHoobe Creator EconomyJetty Fintech ProptechKafene FintechLambda Ai Developer CloudLeadspend AdtechLemfi Global FintechLendflow Fintech Embedded LendingLightmatter Photonic Ai InfrastructureLocalmind AirbnbMainbloq Cryptocurrency Trading Cloud InfrastructureMarco Financial Ai Fintech EcommerceMesh Global Crypto PaymentsMonarch Electrich Vehicle TractorNarrative Io Data CollaborationNeon Serverless Postgres Data AiNeurophos Optical Ai InfrastructureNextmv Decision CloudOdys Aviation Vtol AerospaceOnramp Invest Fintech Digital AssetsPeeba Ai Ecommerce MarketplaceReal Time Data InfrastructureRescale Hpc Cloud ComputingRunway FinancialStoke Space Aerospace Space TechStriga Blockchain Payments InfrastructureSyncware Ecommerce AutomationThink Realtime AdtechUpfort Cyber Security InsuranceYummy Latam Super App

Exits · 1

1 IPOs

HawkEye 360NYSE: HAWK

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Trajectory Ventures made?
Trajectory Ventures has 66 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Trajectory Ventures invest at?
Trajectory Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth, Late Stage stages.
What sectors does Trajectory Ventures focus on?
Trajectory Ventures focuses on AdTech, Deep Tech, Media & Entertainment, Sector Agnostic.
Where is Trajectory Ventures located?
Trajectory Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
Who does Trajectory Ventures co-invest with?
Trajectory Ventures most often shares deals with AlleyCorp, Evolution Ventures, WorldQuant Ventures, among 101 tracked co-investors.

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Co-investors · 145

Mana Ventures

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Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures (AV) is a venture capital firm that co-invests alongside lead VCs in startups, backing founders with capital and access to a large investor and operator community.

$100K – $10M
AIX Ventures

AIX Ventures is an AI-focused venture fund that backs founders building companies in artificial intelligence.

$1M – $5M
Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that backs technology companies building transformative products.

Both backed · 1
$500K – $5M
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm that has spent over two decades backing innovative companies as an early and first investor.

Both backed · 1
$1.7M – $87M
Long Journey Ventures

Long Journey Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that backs unconventional, 'magically weird' founders and ideas, positioning itself as a hands-on, community-oriented partner to its companies.

Both backed · 1
$100K – $1M
Insight Partners

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Both backed · 1
$120M – $350M
First Round Capital

First Round Capital is an early-stage venture firm that backs companies at their earliest moments, often before they are named, across enterprise, AI, consumer, healthcare, fintech and hardware sectors.

Both backed · 1
$1M – $7M
B Capital Group

B Capital is a global investment firm backing early to late-stage technology innovators across technology, healthcare, and energy & resilience sectors.

Both backed · 1
$10M – $50M
True Ventures

True Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2005 that focuses on early-stage technology companies, with operations based in Silicon Valley.

Both backed · 1
$500K – $3M
CRV (Charles River Ventures)

CRV is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the seed and Series A stages, focusing on those with deep conviction and unique insights.

Both backed · 1
$250K – $5M
Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is a venture capital firm with over 30 years of history, backing companies across technology and healthcare sectors through close, hands-on partnerships with founders.

Both backed · 1
$500K – $20M
133 more co-investors

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