05 // GENERAL PARTNERS & OPERATING BENCH
Every Partner Has Built, Shipped, or Scaled DeepTech From Zero.
We run a flat, researcher-first partnership across San Francisco, New York, and Zurich—no investment committees staffed by career financiers who have never debugged hardware or wet-lab assays.
Co-Founder, VektorCore (Acq. $640M) · MIT CSAIL
Julian Sterling
Managing Partner
AI Silicon, ML Compilers & Distributed Systems
Leads Seed and Series A checks in custom inference silicon, kernel compilers, and developer infrastructure. Serves on the boards of TensorForge and KestrelDB.
Former VP Platform, Moderna Tx · ETH Zurich PhD
Dr. Helena Lindholm
General Partner
Computational Biology, Wet-Lab Automation & Matter
Backs scientist-founders translating generative protein models and microfluidic automation from bench validation into commercial GMP scale.
Ex-Chief Autonomy Lead, SpaceX Dragon · Caltech
Vikram Deshmukh
General Partner
Autonomous Robotics, Orbital Systems & Defense
Partners at Day 0 with hardware, aerospace, and dual-use autonomy founders navigating both commercial industrial GTM and federal R&D programs.
Former VP Eng Recruiting, Databricks & Stripe
Claire Beaumont
Operating Partner — Talent & GTM
Founding Engineering & Enterprise Design Partners
Places the first 10 kernel, robotics, and ML research engineers across every Apex Seed portfolio company with zero recruiting agency fees.
01 // APEX VENTURES
DeepTech Seed & Series A
$420M Fund IV leading $1.5M–$12M checks in AI silicon, robotics, computational bio, and grid infrastructure.
02 // CAPITAL & PORTFOLIO
Mandate & Ledger
Clean 1x non-participating preferred governance plus $350K non-dilutive H100 compute access.
03 // PARTNERSHIP
Bench & Research
Every memo read directly by former-founder General Partners in San Francisco, New York, and Zurich.
04 // GOVERNANCE & DOCS
Disclosures & Manual
SEC/Advisers Act non-solicitation notices, founder confidentiality, and 12-station owner manual.
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