NATO Innovation Fund

We have invested in more than 90 companies since 2016, including Pinterest, Compass, Hippo, Ro, Carta, Dutchie, Anduril, Varda Space Industries, Ghost, Front, Esusu, OKCredit, and Unqork. Additionally, through our subsidiary fund, New Slate Ventures, we have financed films, documentaries, and limited series that have been acquired by Apple, Netflix, and Disney. Based in New York City, we invest globally. Backstory Sinai Capital Partners was founded in 2017. We raised $100 million and built a talented team of young investors with offices in New York, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles. We made over 90 investments, realized 11 exits, and achieved a 1X return on our first fund within two years. In 2019, we raised $100 million for a subsidiary of Sinai Capital called New Slate Ventures, with the goal of supplying the many players in the streaming wars with independent content. Our films, series, and documentaries won Academy Award nominations, Golden Globes, Grammy’s, and Emmy’s, and were acquired by the likes of Apple, Disney, and Netflix for multiples of their cost. As a solo GP, I believe boutique, disciplined, early-stage funds with effective managers will generate the best returns for investors in this forthcoming innovation cycle. Throughout my career I’ve nurtured relationships across Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Washington DC, and Hollywood, and aim to leverage this access on behalf of the founders I support. Where to Now? We’re currently in the midst of the greatest acceleration of technological progress since 2010 and the advent of mobile/social computing. New frameworks for problem solving are emerging daily aided by artificial intelligence, CRISPR technologies, climate manipulation, and several other radical new fields previously dismissed as science fiction. When we started Sinai, the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley was that “hardware was hard” and that software investments provided much better risk-adjusted opportunities. That assumption is becoming less credible in the current venture capital landscape, with space exploration, brain computer interfaces, driverless electric vehicles, autonomous warfare drones, and nuclear fusion companies all appearing to be increasingly within reach, with potentially transformational impacts on civilization. Sinai’s new focus will be on these harder technical problems, as we believe this is where the majority of the value creation for this next venture cycle will emerge. While we still welcome revenue generating SaaS businesses, its become clearer to us that the best returns come from the most non-obvious ideas in undefined markets and categories. Some of our latest investments include Anduril, Varda, Galvanick, Rangeview, Factory.AI, Science.IO, and several others. We seek to invest in 5-10 companies each year, with average check sizes ranging between $1-5M depending on stage. We’re happy to lead seed rounds where we have high conviction, but prefer to collaborate with our friends at top funds across the globe. We are geographically agnostic, but are most active in New York, San Francisco, Miami, London, and the South Bay of Los Angeles.

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.

We’re an intensely curious, early to growth-stage VC firm independently supporting companies that are set to shift the future of aerospace. We invest in a full spectrum of fast-accelerating technologies addressing our planet’s greatest challenges. Airbus Ventures invests in autonomous mobility, electrification, low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, security, and beyond. Our firm uniquely operates across international borders to transform technology at the intersection of Earth and space. Our Network Airbus Ventures continuously fosters close and trusted relationships with other leading venture firms, actively offering hands-on expertise to our portfolio companies. We proudly leverage the richly dense networks of our mothership Airbus and its supply chain, as well as the wider ecosystem of our Limited Partners. We work with multiple LPs – including Airbus SE, Development Bank of Japan Inc., Mitsubishi HC Capital, Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., and McKinley Capital – to better enable our entrepreneurs to grow and succeed. Drawing on our own deep roots in aviation innovation, we believe it is a natural success that more than half of the species on Earth fly – it is the most successful adaptation this planet has known. With our entrepreneurs, we seek and develop new patterns of emergence, accelerating their synergies and ascent to new system capabilities.

We use our domain expertise, network, and prior experiences to help our founders scale commercialization, product, and engineering. Post-science project investing We recognize that starting and building a company is hard. Startups by definition are outliers being built by unique collections of humans. We utilize our deep domain expertise to uniquely understand the problems of companies in the categories we care about. Pairing this with our experience working with deep technology, allows us to provide leverage in taking a company from pre, to post-commercialization and building engineering teams across both research and production-level eng.

TUM Venture Labs are new entrepreneurial innovation hubs re-enforcing in a unique way tech-based business creation at the interfaces of engineering, natural, life and data sciences and medicine. The joint initiative of TUM and UnternehmerTUM supports entrepreneurial talents in tech-based business translation from science, offering an entire ecosystem with the necessary development environments. Our offers range from technical and social infrastructure to entrepreneurship training and support through our top-class industry and investor networks. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial qualities and develop a business idea into a successful enterprise at TUM Venture Labs! Our offerings for talents and founders Whether you are a student, a scientist or a well-established team, the TUM Venture Labs offer tailored support within your technological domain. Various formats along our four pillars are available to you -- from initial inspiration to founding your company. Training formats to deepen specialized knowledge in an application-oriented way, to develop start-up ideas or to grow personally. Domain-specific startup support on your journey from initial idea or technology to starting your venture. Our network of top-class entrepreneurs, mentors, industry partners, scientific/domain experts and investors. Access to spaces and infrastructure in the form of workstations, labs or technical infrastructure (e.g. MakerSpace), individually tailored in each Venture Lab. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial skills and develop your business idea into a successful company at the TUM Venture Labs! 11 Venture Labs with entrepreneurial know-how in your tech-domain In order to bring high-tech start-up projects to success, teams need deep knowledge of technology, management know-how as well as specific industry and market understanding. The TUM Venture Labs can support you in enriching your tech know-how with management expertise and deep understanding of your industry and market. To this end, the TUM Venture Labs focus on 11 technology domains and thus create a support offering that specifically addresses the needs of founders and founding teams in the respective technology fields. Discover the Venture Lab that's right for you! Aerospace ChemSPACE Built Environment Robotics/AI Food/Agro/Biotech Software/AI Healthcare Quantum Additive Manufacturing Sustainability & Circular Economy Legal Tech Colab Additional venture lab "mobility" is currently being planned.