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Light Ray Ventures
Venture capital · United States · North America
Light Ray Ventures is a US-based venture fund that invests globally in companies using disruptive technology. It focuses on robotics and automation, clean tech and clean energy, and new and advanced materials.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducationRobotics & Hardware
In its own wordsroboticsautomationclean energyadvanced materialsdeep techsustainability
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Or find every investor that fitsLight Ray Ventures lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (42%), Education (25%) and Robotics & Hardware (17%). 57% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside AENU, APY Ventures and Aloniq.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Light Ray Ventures, 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 100% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AENU | 1 |
| APY Ventures | 1 |
| Aloniq | 1 |
| Anzu Partners | 1 |
| Artiman Ventures | 1 |
| Audacy Ventures | 1 |
| Blackhorn Ventures | 1 |
| Carnrite Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 42% | 7% |
| Education | 25% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 17% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Light Ray 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 Light Ray Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series B |
Round details for Light Ray Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Light Ray Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EELI Technology develops and uses an electrified process to extract lithium from low-grade sources | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Formic provides robotic automation services for manufacturers | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Oct 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| HyWatts delivers clean, modular energy systems that turn renewable power into reliable electricity | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Niron Magnetics develops and manufactures rare-earth-free permanent magnets made with Iron Nitride | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Synapticon develops and manufactures servo drives and motion control systems for robotics and automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Xfuel transforms waste into low-carbon drop-in transport fuels. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- lightray.vc
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 22 Oct 2026
- Companies checked
- 7
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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