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TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America

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TechNexus is a venture collaborative founded in 2007 that pairs corporate capital with startup execution, investing its own capital alongside corporate partners since 2017. It invests in, incubates, and builds ventures with Fortune 1000 corporations and founders, and reports 150+ portfolio companies that have raised over $4B in follow-on capital.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software

In its own wordsb2b softwareaiclean techmobilityindustrial techcorporate innovation

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94portfolio companies
4funding rounds on record
2rounds, last 12 months
$5M to $20Mtypical round it comes in at
Seedmost frequent entry

TechNexus Venture Collaborative lists 94 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (24%), Enterprise Software (15%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (11%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Techstars and New Stack Ventures.

Counts come from funding rounds that name TechNexus Venture Collaborative, 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 TechNexus Venture Collaborative's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 94. 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 round

TechNexus Venture Collaborative does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed75%
Series A0%
Series B25%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Investor profile

percentile among all firms
Portfolio size: 96 companiesRecent activity: 2 rounds in 12 monthsEarly stage: 75% of entries at pre-seed or seedEvidence: 2% of companies confirmed by a roundSector focus: 24% in its largest sectorReach: 9 countriesPortfolio size95th pctRecent activity69th pctEarly stage82th pctEvidence54th pctSector focus31th pctReach93th pct
This firmMedian of all firms
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TechNexus Venture Collaborative compared with all firms
MeasurePercentile of all firmsValue
Portfolio size95th96 companies
Recent activity69th2 rounds in 12 months
Early stage82th75% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence54th2% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus31th24% in its largest sector
Reach93th9 countries

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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Investment themes
This firmAll checked companies
AI & Machine Learning24%18%
Enterprise Software15%8%
Industrial & Manufacturing11%7%
Media & Entertainment8%4%
Healthcare & Biotech6%15%
Education6%7%
Real Estate & Construction5%3%
E-commerce & Marketplaces5%6%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
Y Combinator10
Techstars8
New Stack Ventures4
ATEL Ventures3
Accel3
Andreessen Horowitz3
Greycroft3
Shrug Capital3

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers9399%
  • No longer answers00%
  • Points to another company11%
  • 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 together
373 shared companies103 shared companies51 shared companies39 shared companies35 shared companies24 shared companies22 shared companies15 shared companies14 shared companies14 shared companies12 shared companies11 shared companies11 shared companies10 shared companies10 shared companies9 shared companies7 shared companies7 shared companies6 shared companies6 shared companies6 shared companies6 shared companies5 shared companies5 shared companiesY Combinator: 10 shared companiesY Combinator10Techstars: 8 shared companiesTechstars8New Stack Ventures: 4 shared companiesNew Stack Ventures4ATEL Ventures: 3 shared companiesATEL Ventures3Accel: 3 shared companiesAccel3Andreessen Horowitz: 3 shared companiesAndreessen Horowitz3Greycroft: 3 shared companiesGreycroft3Shrug Capital: 3 shared companiesShrug Capital3Soma Capital: 3 shared companiesSoma Capital3Anzu Partners: 2 shared companiesAnzu Partners2Capital Factory: 2 shared companiesCapital Factory2Cathexis Ventures: 2 shared companiesCathexis Ventures2
Shared portfolio companies with TechNexus Venture CollaborativeFirms that also back companies together

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Compare TechNexus Venture Collaborative head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with TechNexus Venture Collaborative
DateCompanyStage
7 Oct 2026bloomnetwork.aibloomnetwork.aiSeed
27 May 2026Archeanarchean.bioSeed
14 Jan 2025harbingermotorsharbingermotors.comSeries B
1 Jan 2024UpSmithupsmith.comSeed

Round details for TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in TechNexus Venture Collaborative's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

94 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
3am Innovations3aminnovations.comThe company provides satellite enabled safety software for incident management
Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity
Portfolio page
Ampupampup.io · United StatesAmpUp makes EV charging easy for fleets, workplaces, multifamily communities, and public sites.
E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing
Portfolio page
ANGLRanglr.com · USAANGLR develops and provides a fishing app and related services
Legal & ComplianceEnterprise Software
Portfolio page
Archeanarchean.bio · United StatesArchean Sciences engineers biology to understand the brain and develops technologies for therapeutic discovery, next-generation computing, and neural interfaces.
Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
May 2026SeedFunding round
Aspinityaspinity.com · United StatesAspinity develops and sells machine learning products that run in analog
AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
Portfolio page
AssemblyAIassemblyai.com · United StatesThe company provides AI models to transcribe and understand speech
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Portfolio page
Audezeaudeze.comAudeze produces headphones using planar magnetic technology
Consumer
Portfolio page
Beam Healthbeam.healthBeam Health provides an AI platform for medical practice management, connecting various aspects of medical practice such as intake, documentation, and billing
Healthcare & Biotech
Portfolio page
Beastcoastbeastcoast.gg · United States
Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces
Portfolio page
Best Case Studiosbestcasestudios.comBest Case Studios specializes in high-quality, creator-driven audio documentaries and scripted audio storytelling.
Media & Entertainment
Portfolio page
bloomnetwork.aibloomnetwork.ai · United StatesThe company operates a marketplace for domestic manufacturing and operations services for industries such as drones, robotics, and mobility.
Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics
Oct 2026SeedFunding round
Bluedotbluedot.co · United StatesBluedot provides a platform for electric vehicle fleet charging and management for autonomous fleets
Mobility & LogisticsE-commerce & Marketplaces
Portfolio page
BoxCastboxcast.comBoxCast provides live video streaming and production services.
Media & EntertainmentEducation
Portfolio page
BoxPowerboxpower.io · United StatesBoxPower builds and operates utility-owned battery energy storage systems and renewable microgrids in the US, and provides software to plan them.
EducationHealthcare & Biotech
Portfolio page
Captaincaptainexperiences.comCaptain Experiences provides fishing and hunting guides
Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction
Portfolio page
Chordchordcommerce.com · United StatesChord provides an analytics harness that manages and improves context, applies permissions, and validates queries to help business users get trusted answers from their data
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Portfolio page
Clubhouseclubhouse.com · United StatesClubhouse provides live voice chat services
Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment
Portfolio page
Copilot Moneycopilot.money · United StatesCopilot Money offers a personal finance app that coordinates spending, saving, and investing
Fintech
Portfolio page
DeepHowdeephow.comThe company provides artificial intelligence solutions for operational excellence in industries such as manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech
Portfolio page
Dive Studiosdive-studios.com · United StatesDive Studios provides video post production services
Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment
Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
The homepage of TechNexus Venture Collaborative, as last read
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Site
technexus.com
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
5 Nov 2026
Rounds since
1 Jan 2024
Companies checked
94

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