Investors / United States / Gigascale Capital
Gigascale Capital
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Gigascale Capital is an early-stage investor backing companies rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact. It focuses on physical systems across energy, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure, and its team helps founders with technical, commercial, and financing decisions.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducationAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsclimatedeep techenergyinfrastructuresupply chainhardware
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Or find every investor that fitsGigascale Capital lists 23 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 15 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (34%), Education (23%) and AI & Machine Learning (16%). 90% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Collaborative Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Gigascale Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 43% |
| Series A | 21% |
| Series B | 29% |
| Growth | 7% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 12 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 companies |
| Recent activity | 96th | 12 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 34% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 34% | 7% |
| Education | 23% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 16% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lowercarbon Capital | 7 |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | 4 |
| Collaborative Fund | 3 |
| Energy Impact Partners | 3 |
| 8090 Industries | 2 |
| Conviction | 2 |
| Critical Frontier | 2 |
| Engine Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers23100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lowercarbon Capital
Compare Gigascale Capital 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 Gigascale Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 5 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 13 May 2026 | Series B |
Round details for Gigascale Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Gigascale Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
23 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbor develops and supplies power systems, including next-generation turbines, to deliver clean and reliable energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cocoon Carbon transforms the by-product of electric steelmaking into a low-carbon Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM) called LoopCem | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Aug 2024Seed · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Estes develops materials, manufacturing processes, and systems, including magnesium components and battery systems | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Form Energy develops and manufactures cost-effective, multi-day energy storage solutions, including iron-air batteries, to support a clean and reliable electric grid. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Fractile builds hardware to advance AI's underlying capabilities | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | May 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Heron Power Electronics manufactures power electronics for the electric grid. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| HomeBoost provides a DIY home energy efficiency kit. | EducationConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Mill Industries Inc. produces a kitchen appliance that handles food waste overnight. | ConsumerSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Noetive builds self-improving AI that learns how industrial businesses operate and optimizes their processes. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Nyquis provides real-time intelligence for managing, protecting, and expanding the nation's electrical grid. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Panthalassa is building a clean energy platform to power compute and more | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Planted Solar develops and deploys autonomous solar power systems. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| The company provides an embedded electricity platform for other companies to offer their own electricity plans and manage energy-related services | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Red Metals is building a new domestic supply chain for finished copper products in the United States | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Skouria accelerates copper production through deep brine mining | Mobility & LogisticsIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Solcoa produces rare earth metals, including neodymium-praseodymium metal and samarium-cobalt alloy, using its own reactors and chemistry. | Mobility & LogisticsIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Terradot speeds up the natural process of rock weathering to deliver permanent carbon dioxide removal | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Terraton is a full-stack biochar platform built for agribusinesses to launch carbon removal facilities and for buyers looking for verified credits | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Thalo Labs provides hardware and AI software to give HVAC teams data-backed control from installation through ongoing service. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- gigascale.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Aug 2024
- Companies checked
- 23
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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