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Lanza techVentures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Lanza techVentures is an early-stage investment firm founded in 2001 by Lucio Lanza that acts as a strategic partner and advisor to early- to mid-stage companies. It has invested in more than 50 companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, with outcomes including IPOs and mergers or acquisitions.
Invests inIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordssemiconductorsdesign softwareintellectual propertybiotechnologyhealthcareopen-source silicon
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Or find every investor that fitsLanza techVentures lists 14 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (27%), AI & Machine Learning (14%) and Cybersecurity (9%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 15th Rock, Amadeus Capital Partners and Argonautic Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lanza techVentures, 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 Lanza techVentures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 14. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 70th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 43th | 27% 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 | 27% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Consumer | 9% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 15th Rock | 1 |
| Amadeus Capital Partners | 1 |
| Argonautic Ventures | 1 |
| IAGi | 1 |
| Kumpulan Modal Perdana | 1 |
| Maven Ventures | 1 |
| Mitsui Global Investment | 1 |
| Nashville Entrepreneur Center | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1393%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company17%
- 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 Lanza techVentures 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 Lanza techVentures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | Round | |
| 4 Aug 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Lanza techVentures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lanza techVentures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
14 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adapt delivers leading-edge communication systems to significantly improve wireless connectivity for the Industrial IoT market. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Altia Systems develops and sells a video conferencing solution called PanaCast | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Approov provides mobile app protection and security services, including runtime application self-protection and real-time threat analytics. | CybersecurityMobility & Logistics | Aug 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Breker Verification Systems develops products and IP for system verification, including test suite synthesis and scenario modeling | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| CareLoop is a real-time monitoring and relapse prevention tool for people living with severe mental illness | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CargoSense is an exception management service that coordinates between the site and suppliers to find and fix problems before they wreck the schedule. | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| LanzaJet is working to meet the demands of the global aviation industry by advancing the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) that is compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Round | Funding round | |
| NexTech Batteries develops and manufactures lithium-sulfur batteries | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Palma Ceia SemiDesign designs and develops semiconductors and connectivity IP for Wi-Fi and IoT applications | Space & DefenseIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| PDF Solutions provides advanced analytics for semiconductor manufacturing | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Personify provides services and applications, including ChromaCam, that will be discontinued | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | |||
| Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lanzatechventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 14
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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