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TDK Ventures
Corporate VC · San Jose, CA, United States · North America
TDK Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that invests globally in early-stage deep-tech startups. It provides portfolio companies with funding plus support such as product validation, pilot programs, customer and supply chain access, and go-to-market mentorship.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsdeep techmaterials scienceenergycleantechmobilityhealth tech
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Or find every investor that fitsTDK Ventures lists 46 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 21 funding rounds, 9 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 57% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (30%), AI & Machine Learning (21%) and Education (16%). 65% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Foothill Ventures, Global Brain and Hitachi Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name TDK 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 TDK Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 15 companies; its own site lists 46. 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 | 57% |
| Series B | 29% |
| Growth | 14% |
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 | 10 | 4 |
| '26 | 11 | 5 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 81th | 46 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 16 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 97th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 51th | 30% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 30% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Education | 16% | 7% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 4% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Foothill Ventures | 5 |
| Global Brain | 3 |
| Hitachi Ventures | 3 |
| Intel Capital | 3 |
| Qualcomm Ventures | 3 |
| TGVP | 3 |
| TechEnergy Ventures | 3 |
| 3one4 Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers46100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Foothill Ventures
Compare TDK Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with TDK Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 27 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Series B | |
| 21 Mar 2026 | Series B Led |
Round details for TDK Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in TDK Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
46 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and provides conformal coating alternatives for electronics protection. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Agility Robotics designs and deploys humanoid robots for industrial automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AM Batteries manufactures lithium-ion battery electrodes using a dry coating process | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Amperesand develops and manufactures medium voltage solid state transformers for critical power infrastructure | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round | |
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| Aston delivers power capacity for complex workloads, including generation, transmission, storage, and software for data centers. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| AutoFlight is building the future of mass individual aerial transport with a shared airborne vehicle | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| C2i Semiconductors is rethinking power management in a world that demands more performance per watt, tighter integration, and intelligence where it matters most | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Feb 2026Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Divirod combines the power of data and IoT to deliver trustworthy and actionable water data, nowcast, and forecasts for customers combatting water risk and data scarcity. | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| EdgeCortix designs and develops energy-efficient AI processors and acceleration systems | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Apr 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Enlightra builds optical interconnects for data centers and AI clusters. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Eridu AI develops networking technology for artificial intelligence applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company is developing a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Exo develops and provides ultrasound and artificial intelligence technology for medical imaging and diagnostics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Exponent Energy develops and provides battery and charging technology for electric vehicles | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Series B · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Fabric8Labs develops and manufactures 3D metal printed components using electrochemical additive manufacturing technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| The company develops and provides smart irrigation systems for agriculture automation. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Groq operates a cloud platform for running AI inference, built on its own LPU chips and combined with NVIDIA GPUs. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| INERATEC produces synthetic fuels and chemicals using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and offers power-to-x plants and other products | EducationEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tdk-ventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 46
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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