02 // FUND IV INVESTMENT STAGES & OPERATING PLATFORM
High-Conviction Lead Capital From Whitepaper Commit to Series A Scale.
We lead $1.5M to $12.0M rounds with clean 1x governance, 48-hour partner feedback, and dedicated bare-metal compute and technical recruiting.
MANDATE 01 // DAY-0 FORMATION
Day-0 Pre-Seed & Lab Incubation
We partner with PhD researchers, kernel maintainers, and repeat technical founders at the whitepaper or prototype commit—before company incorporation.
MANDATE 02 // INSTITUTIONAL SEED
Institutional Seed Lead
High-conviction Seed lead checks with 50% follow-on capital reserved per company to take DeepTech teams from working alpha to repeatable enterprise contracts.
MANDATE 03 // SERIES A LEAD
Series A Inflection Lead
Leading Series A rounds for category-defining AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, and programmable biology companies scaling commercial production.
MANDATE 04 // NON-DILUTIVE PLATFORM
Apex Compute, Wet-Lab & Talent Platform
DeepTech founders shouldn't burn 40% of their Seed wire queuing for cloud GPUs or paying contingency headhunters. Every Apex check unlocks our shared infrastructure.
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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