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Higher Life Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Higher Life Ventures is a venture fund backed by HL Mando, a supplier of chassis systems, autonomous driving technology and robotics. It invests in deep tech companies and operates independently from its backer, choosing its own deals.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsmobilitydeep techautonomous drivingroboticsaerospacedefense
Your fit with Higher Life Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsHigher Life Ventures lists 22 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Industrial & Manufacturing (24%) and Mobility & Logistics (10%). 84% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside IQT, MaC Venture Capital and Acequia Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Higher Life 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 Higher Life Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 22. 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 | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 55th | 22 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 84th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 24% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 10% | 1% |
| Education | 10% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 2% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 2% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| IQT | 4 |
| MaC Venture Capital | 4 |
| Acequia Capital | 3 |
| Toyota Ventures | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| ARK Venture Fund | 2 |
| Arka Venture Labs | 2 |
| Automotive Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers22100%
- 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 togetherCompare Higher Life 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 Higher Life Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Higher Life Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Higher Life Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
22 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acumino develops and deploys physical AI for industrial automation | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Archetype AI develops and provides a physical AI platform for real-world intelligence and operational understanding | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Atomic Industries manufactures products using mold making and AI-native operations | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bot Auto develops autonomous truck technology for freight transportation | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Catalyx Space builds orbital return vehicles to deliver heavy cargo back from space | Space & Defense | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Conifer designs and manufactures electric powertrains for various applications, including robots, data centers, and mobility | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| EchoTwin AI is building the Physical AI operating system for cities | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Element Energy develops and manufactures battery management systems to improve the safety, longevity, and output of batteries | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| F.energy is working on developing fusion energy technology | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Harbinger Motors manufactures electric and hybrid vehicles, including chassis, work trucks, and power systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps cities revolutionize transportation with its mobile vision AI platform | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Instinct Robotics builds an AI-driven grinding robot for automating finishing processes in foundries | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Lincode develops and provides an AI inspection system for manufacturing using computer vision | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Onyx uses large-scale AI agent teams to rapidly discover code improvements on hardware systems. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Paradigm Robotics builds robotic solutions for mission critical situational awareness in hazardous environments | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Safire is the defense and electric mobility company turning visions of the future into impactful realities. | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Stoke Space is building a space transportation system called Nova to launch, maneuver, return, and rapidly reconstitute critical space assets | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Swift Solar combines mature high-performance silicon heterojunction technology with perovskite-silicon tandems to produce solar energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Tenstorrent produces and sells computer hardware and software for artificial intelligence workloads | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Upstage AI builds and provides large language models and document processing engines to transform workflows for businesses | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- hlv.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 22
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