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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.

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 invest in startups building the technologies, infrastructure, and services that will be integral as we progress towards a Type I Civilization. From Type 0 To Type I Freeman John Dyson suggested that humanity is currently at a Type 0.73 civilization, due to the fact that we continue to maintain our energy needs using earth's resources where energy forms are mildly stored such as coal, oil or natural gas. In order to achieve a Type I civilization we need to effectively have control over the energy of our host planet. This would enable humans to have complete control over our energy and dictate the natural forces on earth and the many threats of climate change. In achieving a Type I Civilization, we move closer to a Type II Civilization where we can harness the power of our mother star, turning the light into energy, and by controlling the star itself. Our vision is inspired by the Kardashev Scale: We measure civilizations level of technological advancement based on our ability to effectively use and harness energy from Earth and our parent star. We Pursue Human Growth Through Technology: We are investing in the technological evolution that will define humanity over the next 100 years. Here is our strategyProgressing Humanity: Humanity is estimated to reach a Type 1.0 in the next 100 years. Our strategy is to invest in companies solving complex infrastructure and technological leaps needed in the next decade, with the intention to continue to build and progress humanity towards a Type 1.0 Civilization. Deep-Tech Innovation: By addressing complex and fundamental problems, deep tech innovation targets high-impact opportunities, rather than relying on known or established solutions. Coverging Approaches: Advanced science provides the breakthroughs that underpin the solutions. Engineering ensures technical and commercial feasibility for mass utilization. Our marketsSpace Technology: Global space industry projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2030 Robotics: The modernization of industrial sector using robotics. The market is estimated to reach $230bln by 2030. AI & Automation: Half of the work in the global economy can be automated - $16 trillion in wages Future of Mobility: The future of mobility is digital, electric, and autonomous. We expect the market to reach $850bln by 2030. Nanotechnology: Shifting the way we harvest and move energy. Market is expected to exceed $40bln by 2030. Human Longevity: Focusing on fighting chronic disease, increasing human health, and transforming health care. Our achievementsType One Ventures leads $20m investment into Gravitics Inc. Type One Invests in TOffeeAM Ltd. AI-powered intelligent 3D printing design software for advanced manufacturing industries. Type One completes the investment into Lunar Outpost. Focused on building rovers and instruments to explore the moon and mine resources. Type One Ventures leads investment into Space Forge the largest seed investment in Europe for any space company. Type One Ventures announces $50m fund for Space and Deep Technology investments in US and Europe. Type One Ventures invests in Radian Aerospace. Why spaceDecreasing Launch Costs: Funds can be shifted from Capex of launch to innovation Growing Market: Space is expected to become a $1T market Benefits to earth: From new space produced materials that reduced carbon emissions to resource extraction - earth benefits Innovation ready: The underlying components in satellites has not been innovated upon in decades, leading to a massive opportunity Earth is a nature preserve: Raw materials are more abundant in space and cause less destruction than sourcing here Space is the great equalizer: Innovation in space benefits all industries

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) was created to supercharge the Alliance’s unique innovation ecosystems. Allied talent and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are world-leading, but the market to support deep tech innovation is underfunded. With the NIF, we are creating a commercialisation machine in both the private and public sectors, backing innovators to secure the future for the Alliance's 1 billion citizens. Focus The NIF is a standalone EUR 1 billion venture capital fund supporting ambitious founders developing emerging and disruptive technologies. For us, high-impact verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, manufacturing, and space. We are passionate about autonomy, hypersonics, new materials and quantum, and want to shore up cutting-edge hardware and software. Rallying around NATO’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs), our focus will evolve in parallel with today’s rapid innovation environment. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Autonomy Quantum Biotechnologies Hypersonic Systems Space Novel Materials & Manufacturing Energy & Propulsion Next-Generation Communications Objectives With a long-term view, the NIF enables transformative technologies with the potential to shape our security for decades to come. Our mission is an essential one, and it holds us to seeking out cutting-edge developments that solve NATO's challenges through adoption in defence and security markets; bolstering the capacities of Allied innovation ecosystems; and ultimately driving the scale and success of our portfolio.

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.

Vsquared Ventures backs entrepreneurs engineering the seemingly impossible. We are early-stage investors in deep-tech companies tackling society's most pressing challenges, with an emphasis on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, Al/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. Our team of founders, academics, operators and innovators has invested in over 30 companies to date and built one of Europe's strongest deep-tech portfolios, forging alliances with key players in industry, research, and a global startup ecosystem along the way. The companies we've partnered with so far include Isar Aerospace, IOM, Zama, The Exploration Company, and Custom Cells.