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Promus Ventures
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Promus Ventures is an early-stage investor that has been backing DeepTech startups since 2012. It partners with founders using foundational technologies to transform mature industries, and it has offices in Chicago and Luxembourg.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdeeptechspacemanufacturingmobilitylogisticshealth
Your fit with Promus Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsPromus Ventures lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 29% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (54%), Industrial & Manufacturing (23%) and Robotics & Hardware (8%). It invests most often alongside Abstract, Ananda Impact Ventures and Aurelia Foundry.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Promus 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 | 29% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 29% |
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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 61th | 29% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 86th | 54% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Abstract | 1 |
| Ananda Impact Ventures | 1 |
| Aurelia Foundry | 1 |
| Avenir | 1 |
| Balerion Space Ventures | 1 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 1 |
| Beyond Earth Ventures | 1 |
| Blackbird | 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 54% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 23% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 8% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 8% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Promus 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 Promus Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 6 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Jan 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 4 Jun 2025 | Series A | |
| 15 Jan 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Promus Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Promus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capra provides ready-to-install robotics solutions for inspection, logistics, and urban maintenance | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Encube is a company that provides an AI platform for hardware engineering teams to analyze designs and collaborate on product development. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Halter develops and provides virtual fencing and pasture management technology for farmers and ranchers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Jua builds AI weather models and an agent that acts on them for energy traders, utilities, and hedge funds. | AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy | Jun 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Lunar Outpost builds robotic infrastructure for future exploration and commerce on the Moon | Space & Defense | May 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Mytra develops and implements warehouse automation systems using bots, software, and cells to simplify material movement and storage in industries. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Uplift360 develops chemical-based regeneration technologies to recover and reuse advanced materials like carbon fibre and aramids. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- promusventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Jan 2025
- 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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