Investors / Laude Ventures
Laude Ventures
Venture capital
Laude Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that backs deeply technical founders, often from research, frontier labs, or engineering teams. It keeps its portfolio small so founders get direct access to the experience and judgment of its partners and community.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeep techtechnical foundersartificial intelligencecomputer scienceresearch
Your fit with Laude Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsLaude Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (47%), Cybersecurity (10%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Felicis, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Laude 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 Laude Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 18. 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 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 65th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 47% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Felicis | 5 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 3 |
| Samsung NEXT | 3 |
| The House Fund | 3 |
| Databricks Ventures | 2 |
| Dell Technologies Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1794%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- 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 Laude 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 Laude Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 27 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 6 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 21 May 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Laude Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Laude Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company designs unique products with AI and artisans. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round | ||
| The company provides an AI ranking and leaderboard platform and tools to build various applications and websites. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Eventual helps robotics teams curate better data for training | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Disarray builds AI research agents for long-horizon autonomy over heterogeneous data | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Inferact provides a platform to run inference at the cost-performance frontier, allowing control over cost, latency, and throughput tradeoffs for models and workloads. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Invocate builds infrastructure to control and monetize how humans and AI agents use data. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI ranking and leaderboard platform and tools to build various applications and websites. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | May 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Mithril provides a marketplace of GPU virtual machines with flexible pricing and reservation options | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Narada AI automates complex workflows across desktop apps, web, and Citrix with artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures AI hardware, including custom silicon and reference systems, to improve energy efficiency in AI inference. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides software and services to manage and grow physical and rehabilitation therapy practices. | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Sooth Labs builds an engine that delivers reliable forecasts to help organizations make decisions under uncertainty | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Tensormesh provides a data management layer for AI inference with a multi-tier scalable KV cache | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Terrace Networks provides a platform for security operations, threat hunting, and detection and response for enterprises and governments. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Voio unifies fragmented pieces of the reporting process and helps radiologists deliver faster diagnoses without compromising quality. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- laude.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 18
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