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Embark Ventures
Venture capital · Los Angeles, CA, United States · North America
Embark Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage venture fund focused on deep tech companies. It looks for teams with proprietary technology that provides a defensible competitive advantage in transforming large industries.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techroboticsautomationbio-healthcarematerial sciencesemiconductors
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Or find every investor that fitsEmbark Ventures lists 24 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (29%), Healthcare & Biotech (20%) and Robotics & Hardware (15%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside ATEL Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Embark Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Embark Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 24. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 59th | 24 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 73th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 49th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 20% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 15% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 12% | 7% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 2% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| ATEL Ventures | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Divergent Capital | 2 |
| GreatPoint Ventures | 2 |
| Redstick Ventures | 2 |
| Riot Ventures | 2 |
| Safar Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2292%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company28%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Embark Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Embark Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr 2026 | Round | |
| 21 Nov 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Embark Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Embark Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
24 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atoms invests in and develops companies in various industries, including food and robotics. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Attivare Therapeutics develops personalized cancer immunotherapy treatments using artificial intelligence and biomaterials | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Avro Life Science is a clinical stage biotech company that develops topical platform technology for delivering drugs into the skin | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CellFE creates a microfluidic-based gene editing technology for cell therapy manufacturing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Foundry Robotics manufactures complex hardware using autonomous robotic assembly cells and intelligent software | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Geodesic develops adaptive physical intelligence to extend humanity's physical reach and ability to act in the world | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| inVia Robotics provides warehouse automation solutions, including robotic automation and software, to increase productivity and efficiency in warehouses. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Izote Biosciences develops a new approach to fermentation, starting with how microbes breathe, and creates fermentation routes to specialty ingredients, with a focus on flavors and fragrances. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Jiko provides a banking platform that allows for cash storage and movement, offering a simple and crisis-proof approach to banking without intermediaries or lending, and also provides access to U.S. Treasury Bills. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kebotix provides enterprise AI solutions for materials discovery and research and development acceleration. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Kula Bio produces nitrogen for crops using microbes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Machina builds and operates factories that use AI-guided robotics to manufacture complex metal structures. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Parallel Systems develops autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles intended to move freight that would otherwise travel by short-haul truck, integrating with existing rail operations. | Mobility & LogisticsClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| New Relic provides observability and monitoring tools for applications and infrastructure | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Optimal Dynamics provides a transportation decision system to automatically boost utilization, productivity, and profitability across an organization. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Prophetic develops and sells headbands that use ultrasonic energy to induce lucid dreaming | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| QSimulate provides quantum-powered simulation solutions for drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Rugged Robotics provides automated layout services for construction, warehouses, data centers, and high-tech manufacturing facilities using autonomous robots and experienced field teams. | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- embark.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 24
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