Untapped Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingGlendale · Pre-Seed–Seed · 7 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Untapped Ventures invests in the 'Autonomous Economy' — AI that executes work rather than merely assisting it. The firm backs pre-seed and seed founders building in emerging categories that lack consensus, focusing on twelve frontiers it views as most transformative. It emphasizes community, intentionally connecting its founder community with an investor community of enterprise CEOs and family offices so LPs can actively support portfolio companies with industry expertise, product validation, and market insight. The firm positions itself as building companies alongside founders rather than treating engagements as purely financial investments.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 24 of 26 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×22Enterprise Software ×9Deep Tech ×8Developer Tools ×6SaaS ×5Biotech ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Healthtech ×4
HQs:United States×12New Zealand×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×83 founders×14+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 24 founders with education data
Harvard University ×2Hyper Island ×2University of Toronto ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×11Business & Management ×7Engineering ×3Mathematics & Statistics ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 28 founders with career history
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×4DeepMind ×3OpenAI ×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
8 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 27 with degree data)
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 22023 · 22022 · 15 dated
Applied General Intelligence builds AI infrastructure centered on a Language Compiler Model (LCM) designed for deterministic, explainable outputs without hallucinations, plus an Agentic Marketplace Platform (AMP) for matching and executing transactions on complex assets.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software
Jerry Zhang(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)inKurt Bonatz(Co-Founder & President)inDaniel Coleman(Chief Executive Officer)inNick Ogurtsov(Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer)inDeb Gordon-Gill(Chief Growth Officer)Jonathan Ross(Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsTribeca Early Stage Partners
ANI.AI is a San Francisco research lab building a computational platform for longevity medicine that integrates deep multiomics, longitudinal digital phenotyping, and physician-supervised intervention into a unified model of an individual's biological state.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechLongevitySan Francisco, US
Bruno Balen(Co-Founder, Co-CEO)inNika Pintar(Co-Founder, Co-CEO)in
Co-investorsLongeVC
Climax (Bettani) develops dairy-free cheeses that match the taste, texture, melt and stretch of dairy cheese while providing 80–100% of the protein.
BiotechClimate TechFoodTech
Co-investorsAt One VenturesValor Equity PartnersArtis VenturesCanaccord Genuity GroupClimate CapitalGlobal Founders Capital+6 more
Daily.ai offers an AI-powered platform for publishing email newsletters, using a content curation engine to automatically generate newsletters aimed at driving high daily open rates.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investors7BC Venture Capital
Eon develops brain emulation technology, having built a digital emulation of a fruit fly brain — 139,255 neurons and 50 million connections preserved, scanned, and reconstructed — that reproduces biological neural responses and behaviors such as navigating, grooming, and feeding.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Co-investorsElad Gil
Extropic builds thermodynamic computing hardware, including thermodynamic sampling units (TSUs) designed to be more energy efficient than GPUs for probabilistic AI workloads.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsAustin, US
Guillaume Verdon(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtacama VenturesBeyond CapitalBlack FlagHOF CapitalHyperguapJulian Capital+6 more
Finnt builds AI agents that execute accounting and controllership tasks for finance teams, generating journal entries and financial statements with audit documentation in minutes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Anji Ismail(Founder)inFaouzi EL YAGOUBI(Founder)in
Co-investorsDiaspora VenturesY CombinatorIsaiKhosla VenturesUpHonest Capital
Australian app that matches diners with restaurants and menu items suited to their dietary needs and allergies.
Dylan McDonnell(Founder)inErica Anderman(Founder)inTimo Kugler(Founder)in
Herd-i is an agritech company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning with in-shed cameras to detect lameness and other health issues in dairy herds.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningIoTNew Zealand, NZ
Peter Mitchell(Interim Chief Executive Officer)William Elliot(Chief Technology Officer)in
Lemurian Labs develops Tachyon, a software stack that runs AI workloads on any hardware and cloud while matching or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned kernels.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Jay Dawani(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors1Flourish CapitalBlackhorn Venturesfutureland venturesGood Growth CapitalMistral Venture PartnersOrigin Ventures+11 more
Liquid AI builds device-native foundation models (LFMs) designed to run efficiently on processors outside data centers, such as phones, laptops, and cars, under latency, privacy, and hardware constraints.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareBrookline, US
Daniela Rus(Co-founder)inMathias Lechner(Co-founder & CTO)inRamin Hasani(Co-founder & CEO)inAlexander Amini(Co-founder & CSO)inLouis Hunt(Executive Officer)Stephen Pagliuca(Director)
Co-investorsBold Capital PartnersDuke Capital PartnersGlasswing VenturesIsaiISAI GestionLink Ventures+5 more
Nexxa builds AI agents that capture a company's decision logic, institutional knowledge, and operational judgment, then execute tasks by writing directly into the company's systems of record.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSunnyvale, US
Philipp Wehn(Founder)inDavid (DH) Huang(Founder)inNegeen Sonya Kohyarin
Co-investorsBeat VenturesConstruct CapitalAugment VenturesPropeller VC
Openwater develops an imaging platform using two optical modalities designed to diagnose and monitor diseases at the size and cost of a smartphone.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen(Executive Chairman & Founder)in
Co-investorsAIR CapitalBold Capital PartnersCleveland AvenueCollaborative FundColterExcel Venture Management+5 more
Optios operates an AI platform that collects neurophysiological data via unobtrusive sensors and analyzes it in real time to deliver brain-activity insights, neuro-cognitive metrics, and interventions aimed at optimizing human performance.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHealthtech
David Bach, MD(Founder)in
Co-investorsChloe CapitalTribeca Early Stage Partners
Piris Labs develops photonic networking hardware to reduce idle time on AI computing chips and improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure deployments.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Khalatpour(Founder & CEO)inKeyvan Moghadam(Founder & President)in
Co-investorsLink VenturesY Combinator
Radicle Science runs clinical trials and evidence-generation studies for wellness products—including supplements, food and beverage, and pet wellness—using large, demographically diverse datasets, DTC tests, wearables, and AI analysis.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechWellness & FitnessDel Mar, US
Jeffrey Ming-chie Chen(Director)Pelin Wood Thorogood(Director)inTed Roth(Executive Officer)Bruce Hansen(Director)
Co-investorsThe Fund
ScienceIO offers an AI platform for interpreting healthcare data, including a product that converts unstructured medical text into structured data via an API and maps it to millions of medical concepts.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtech
Will Manidis(Founder, CEO)Gaurav Kaushik(Founder, President)
Co-investorsEarl Grey CapitalSwell PartnersToba CapitalAlt CapitalLachy GroomQuiet Capital+8 more
Scott is an alignment layer for software development teams that connects design intent to code through planspaces and code-grounded design reviews.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
David Maulick(CEO & Co-Founder)inDevin Cintron(Founder)in
BoardGarry Tan(President & CEO, YC)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorMaC Venture Capital
Sluicebox extracts and refines engineering and sourcing data from CAD files, PDFs, and bills of materials, capturing manufacturing, weight, process, and supplier inputs.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaSAustin, US
Elmar Kert(Founder)inEmi Ayada(Founder)in
Co-investorsVirta Ventures
WOZCODE is an official plugin for Claude Code that optimizes code execution to reduce costs and improve performance for developers.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ben Collins(Founder)inBrad Eckert(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorBurst CapitalCERVIN VENTURESMGV
x.ai builds frontier AI reasoning models, real-time voice AI, and generative media systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu(Founder)inGreg Yang(Founder)inGuodong Zhang(Founder)inIgor Babuschkin(Founder)inElon Musk(Founder)in
Co-investors7percent VenturesAbstract VenturesAglae VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzArctic Digital+35 more
You.com provides Web Search APIs that give AI agents and large language models access to real-time, cited web data, addressing training cutoffs and hallucinations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Richard Socher(CEO & Founder)inAlex Triplett(Chief Operating Officer)inSaahil Jain(Chief Technology Officer)inSaurabh Sharma(Chief Product Officer)inAlper Tekin(President of Search)inJing Lee(Vice President of Finance and Operations)in
Co-investorsAIX VenturesBreyer CapitalChamaeleonDay One VenturesEvolution VC PartnersFusion+18 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
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Exits · 2
2 acquisitions · showing 1xAIacq. by Space X
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Daily · alleywatch.com · Aug 24, 2026
You · indianstartupnews.com · Aug 21, 2026
AGI · globallegalpost.com · Aug 21, 2026
Extropic · interestingengineering.com · Aug 3, 2026
xAI · readsludge.com · Jul 17, 2026
Piris Labs · ycombinator.com · Jul 7, 2026
Woz · ycombinator.com · Apr 17, 2026
Radicle Science · nutritioninsight.com · Mar 12, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Untapped Ventures made?
- Untapped Ventures has 26 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Untapped Ventures invest at?
- Untapped Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Untapped Ventures's typical check size?
- Untapped Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $2M.
- What sectors does Untapped Ventures focus on?
- Untapped Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Robotics.
- Where is Untapped Ventures located?
- Untapped Ventures is headquartered in Glendale, US.
- Who does Untapped Ventures co-invest with?
- Untapped Ventures most often shares deals with Bold Capital Partners, HOF Capital, Link Ventures, among 98 tracked co-investors.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Untapped Ventures has recently written about the venture landscape for AI agent infrastructure startups, the explosive growth of autonomous agent adoption and capital concentration in AI ventures, and the historical economic transitions foreshadowing a shift to a compute-driven Autonomous Economy. AI summary
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