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OVNI Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
OVNI Capital is a first-check venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Berlin and Paris that backs European founders scaling internationally. It leads early-stage rounds, writing checks from $250k to $2m.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordshard techeuropeearly stagedeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsOVNI Capital lists 25 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 42% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (39%), Industrial & Manufacturing (11%) and Cybersecurity (11%). 68% of its companies are based in France. It invests most often alongside Agoranov, daphni and Blockwall.
Counts come from funding rounds that name OVNI Capital, 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 OVNI Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 12 companies; its own site lists 25. 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 | 25% |
| Seed | 42% |
| 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 | 0 |
| '26 | 10 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 60th | 25 companies |
| Recent activity | 96th | 12 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 99th | 40% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 71th | 39% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 39% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 9% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Agoranov | 5 |
| daphni | 4 |
| Blockwall | 2 |
| Drysdale Ventures | 2 |
| Expeditions | 2 |
| 3LB Seed Capital | 1 |
| AENU | 1 |
| AIC | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers25100%
- 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 OVNI Capital 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 OVNI Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 19 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 29 May 2026 | Series A |
Round details for OVNI Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in OVNI Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
25 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMI Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that understand the real world and can reason, plan, and make predictions | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Arsenals builds autonomous maritime vessels, such as the Harpoon, for various missions including ISR, strike, and mining operations. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Axeptio provides a consent management platform for websites and apps to manage user consent and comply with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. | CybersecurityLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces industrial ingredients with microorganisms using an AI-powered bioproduction platform. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Bleu Robotics builds the AI that lets a humanoid robot take on manual tasks on a factory line | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Blynt AI provides speech recognition technology and builds custom speech models for clients | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides composable computers for developers and agents, allowing them to spawn thousands of isolated machines or sandboxes. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Calcore designs, finances, builds and operates purpose-built AI factories for next-generation AI applications. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Epyr develops industrial thermal storage solutions to provide high-temperature heat using renewable power sources. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| FABRIAL LABS is a formal foundations lab in stealth | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Ground A develops and sells laser-based drone defence systems | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Isentroniq enables quantum computing at scale through cutting edge wiring solutions for solid-state quantum computers. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an API that gives AI agents access to context and data from various sources | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Kyber provides real-time infrastructure for machine control, including robots, drones, vehicles, and remote desktops. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Lightspring develops a 3D-fabricated optical interconnection platform for photonic systems | Industrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company uses AI to find new critical metal deposits by applying it to geology reasoning | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Mendo helps enterprise teams adopt and integrate generative AI into their existing tools and workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| MokN provides a solution to end credential threats by using defensive phishing pages that lure attackers into revealing compromised credentials | Cybersecurity | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Ncodin develops optical interconnect technology for high performance computing and other applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| QTAS develops a quantum sensing microscopy approach for rare cell detection and analysis | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- ovni.capital
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 25
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