Earth & Beyond Ventures

Scout leads Seed Rounds with $1-2M checks while reserving capital to follow on through Series B. Our investment focus lies within AI, Machine-Learning, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Advanced Materials Science, Security, Space & Aerospace, and Advanced Energy. Our teams' experience in defense and building multi-billion dollar companies provides us with the expertise necessary to find repeated success within these verticals. Our team mostly consists of military service academy graduates who spent years in active military service and the Intelligence Community. They have served as operators and as entrepreneurs founding companies at the forefront of innovation in both the government and civilian worlds.

We are in the midst of technological shifts at a pace faster than ever before. Calculus VC capitalizes on these shifts to deliver returns and impact. We invest in the Series A and Series B stages of startups in the below sectors: FUTURE OF COMPUTING AND AI Continued advancements in AI will demand new developments in hardware and software. New computing materials and interfaces may emerge. Computing power may be more distributed, and the world will be infinitely more connected. These and more, are our areas of interest: Intelligence beyond language: We expect AI to understand quantitative models and physical phenomenon just as well as it understands language. Large Quantitiative Models are a focus for us. New hardware, materials, and architectures: We expect that demand for computing power will grow exponentially. Quantum computing, as well as distributed computing are expected to grow. We expect advancements in computing materials beyond silicon. Immersive and neural interfaces: These interfaces already exist, we expect they will become more mainstream. Spatial computing, integrating the physical world with digital environments may be our future. COMPUTATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES AND HEALTHTECH Breakthroughs in biology, materials, sensors, and data science are converging to redefine healthcare. Precision and personalization will take center stage as AI enhances how we detect, monitor, and treat disease. Areas of interest include: AI-First Therapeutics and Discovery Platforms: ML-powered platforms designing drugs and biologics via simulation, predictive modeling, and data-rich experimentation. Infrastructure for Programmable Biology: Tools that make biology engineerable – lab automation, bioinformatics, 3D bioprinting, next-gen diagnostics and R&D devices. Continuous, Data-Driven and Personalized Care: Wearables, medical devices, and diagnostics to deliver patient-centric care. These models turn users into real-time data streams, enabling adaptive treatment and personalized interventions. ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES As we expand the frontiers of possibility, we expect industry to evolve with intelligence, autonomy and environmental sustainability at its core. Areas of focus include: AI and automation in industry: Intelligent machines will optimize production, reduce waste, and enable new workflows. From predictive maintenance to robotic manufacturing, automation will power the next industrial revolution. We support startups enabling this vision. Land, ocean, and space transport and communications: We are interested in advanced materials, robotics, sensors, systems and software that will unlock new frontiers from deep-sea mapping to planetary missions. Resource efficiency: Building the future will demand large reserves of energy and natural resources. Technologies that can serve our energy, food, water, and agricultural needs while supporting a better planet are of interest to us.

For the past 25 years, we have backed the visionaries who push the boundaries of possibility and explore the frontier of the unknown. We focus on seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with unique ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries. As venture capitalists, the Future Ventures partners have led founding investments in several companies that had successful IPOs and others that were billion-dollar acquisitions. Some of our early VC investments include Boring Company, Commonwealth Fusion, D-Wave, Planet, Skype, SpaceX, Tesla and Upside Foods. Here are some of those founding stories, representing $800 billion of aggregate value creation. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter or our photo blog, listen to the long-form podcast interview, or read some of our thoughts on deep learning and manufacturing meat without animals, or browse our collection of Apollo space artifacts or rocketry gone wild.

The fund invests primarily in Japanese and Asian start-ups in the fields of environment and energy, information and communications, medical and healthcare, mobility, advanced materials, software (including AI), aerospace and defense, semiconductors, and nuclear fusion. Kyocera will collaborate with VC firm Global Brain Corporation (CEO: Yasuhiko Yurimoto, hereinafter, Global Brain) to develop venture capital strategies supported by Global Brain's investment platform, networks, and knowledge base.

Molten Ventures is Europe’s largest listed tech VC firm. We inject the most visionary companies with energy to help them transform and grow. This energy comes in many forms - capital of course but also knowledge, experience, relationships, and commitment. For our portfolio, for our investors and for our society, we make more possible. We invest in companies for the long term, but we start from early stage, so we have chosen a name that captures that very first change. When a solid becomes a liquid, it becomes Molten. We transformed venture capital In helping our portfolio transform, so too have we. Our public listing and multi-fund model allow us to provide entrepreneurs with a more flexible approach to funding, to back the best teams for as long as they need and give investors the ability to share in the growth of the companies that are inventing the future. We are global The best entrepreneurs will take their companies beyond Europe. We are part of a global community of independent funds that can help them scale across the world. We invest in Europe’s best tech companies Molten Ventures portfolio of investments boasts 67 companies includes exciting early-stage companies like Irish drone delivery company Manna Aero, Cambridge-based quantum computing software company, Riverlane, London-based climate intelligence company, Cervest and Finnish satellite company ICEYE. As a testament to its ability to support companies throughout their lifecycle, Molten’s portfolio also includes European unicorns like Trustpilot, UiPath, Graphcore, Revolut, Cazoo, Ledger and Aircall.

We accelerate technology transfer from laboratories to market Linksium's expertise is dedicated on risky step of startups departure and upstream phases of the development of technological innovation projects. Linksium provides a wide portfolio of technologies which pushes back scientific boundaries. 15 deep tech startups every year Our multidisciplinary portfolio is covering the following fields: Biotech & Medtech Quantum, Digital, Nano & Microelectronics Energy & Environment Chemistry & New Materials Inclusive Society A state-owned private company Linksium has a €57M commitment from the government over 10 years, and is also supported by the Auvergne Rhône Alpes Region and Europe (FEDER). Its shareholders are Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble INP, CEA, CNRS, INRIA and Bpifrance. Linksium is part of a national network of 13 regional companies technology transfer accelerators (SATT)