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Innovation Endeavors
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Innovation Endeavors is a venture firm that partners with early-stage founders working on technical breakthroughs. It describes itself as a boutique firm whose whole partnership works alongside founders.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Your fit with Innovation Endeavors
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Or find every investor that fitsInnovation Endeavors lists 80 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 27 funding rounds, 8 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Healthcare & Biotech (11%) and Enterprise Software (9%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside DCVC, Andreessen Horowitz and BoxGroup.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Innovation Endeavors, 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 Innovation Endeavors' whole history. Rounds on record name 26 companies; its own site lists 80. 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 | 39% |
| Series A | 46% |
| Series B | 12% |
| Growth | 4% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 8 | 1 |
| '26 | 15 | 7 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 80 companies |
| Recent activity | 97th | 15 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 65th | 39% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| DCVC | 7 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| BoxGroup | 4 |
| General Catalyst | 4 |
| IVP | 4 |
| SoftBank Vision Fund | 4 |
| Ulu Ventures | 4 |
| Western Technology Investment | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7898%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- 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 Innovation Endeavors 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 Innovation Endeavors| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 23 Jul 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Innovation Endeavors
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Innovation Endeavors' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
80 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afresh provides an AI platform for grocery retail to help with decision making and operations | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| AlphaSense provides a market intelligence and search platform for businesses and financial institutions to access and analyze financial data and expert insights. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company's website appears to be a demonstration of a rich text editor. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Anyword makes AI content perform better | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Aro Homes builds net-zero homes in Silicon Valley, California, designed by Olson Kundig, with features like solar power and energy-efficient appliances. | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Atom Computing builds highly scalable, gate-based quantum computers with arrays of optically-trapped neutral atoms | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Augment develops software for organizational scale agentic software development | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Autoheal builds the self-improving software factory for enterprises | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Averna Therapeutics is developing technology to safely and effectively deliver and durably integrate large sets of genetic instructions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bauplan provides a platform for running AI on production data with full control and safety features | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Beamr develops and provides video compression technology for various industries, including media and entertainment, and autonomous vehicles. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BigHat Biosciences designs and develops therapeutics by integrating AI with autonomous generation of biological data. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2021Series A | Funding round | |
| Blue River Technology creates intelligent machinery that solves challenges for customers, including a solution that uses computer vision and machine learning to distinguish crops from weeds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Apr 2025Series A | Page + round | |||
| Character Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing new medicines for eye diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Citrine Informatics develops a platform for chemicals and materials development using AI tools and data management. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Claroty provides cybersecurity software for cyber-physical systems, offering asset inventory, exposure management, network protection, secure access, and threat detection across industrial, healthcare, commercial, and public sector environments. | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Color provides cancer care services, including virtual cancer clinics and AI-powered cancer care, to various clients such as employers, health plans, and unions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Continual builds and runs custom software for companies to manage their operations and data | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops a machine learning platform for next-generation semiconductor process development | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- innovationendeavors.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Sept 2020
- Companies checked
- 80
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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