03 // SELECTED PORTFOLIO LEDGER (FUNDS I–IV)
Technical Founders Backed at the Preprint, Lab & Seed Stage.
Selected illustrative case studies showing how Day-0 capital, bare-metal GPU grants, and founding-engineer recruiting compound into category leadership.
AI SILICON & COMPILERS
TensorForge Silicon: From Compiler Preprint to $1.4B Series C Category Leader
Backed two former MLIR compiler architects at the ArXiv paper stage to build hardware-agnostic sparse inference kernels.
Led $3.8M Seed ($18M Post)
$1.4B Series C · $68M ARR
AUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE
Aegis Orbital Robotics: Autonomous Satellite Servicing & $180M Defense Backlog
Incubated out of Caltech's guidance-and-control lab to build radiation-hardened computer vision for geostationary orbital docking.
Led $2.2M Pre-Seed Incubation
$620M Series B · $180M Backlog
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
HelioSynth Bio: Programmable Enzyme Foundry Scaling to 9 Pharma Partnerships
Led the Seed round for an ETH Zurich spin-out combining diffusion protein design with closed-loop robotic assay validation.
Led $4.5M Seed ($22M Post)
$490M Series B · 9 Pharma Deals
INDUSTRIAL ENERGY & POWER
QuantaGrid Energy: Solid-State Grid Transformers Deployed Across 14 Utilities
Backed power-electronics veterans replacing 24-month-lead-time iron-core transformers with modular silicon-carbide solid-state substations.
Led $9.0M Series A
$810M Series C · 1.8GW Deployed
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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