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TEL Venture Capital
Corporate VC · Fremont, CA, United States · North America
TEL Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Tokyo Electron, a manufacturer of semiconductor and display production equipment. It invests in companies with technologies synergistic with Tokyo Electron and supports them through joint development and collaboration.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordssemiconductordisplaysensorssilicon processingmanufacturing equipment
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Or find every investor that fitsTEL Venture Capital lists 23 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (48%), AI & Machine Learning (24%) and Cybersecurity (7%). 37% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Intel Capital, imec.xpand and 15th Rock.
Counts come from funding rounds that name TEL Venture 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 TEL Venture Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 23. 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 roundTEL Venture Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 33% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 82th | 48% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 48% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 3% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Intel Capital | 3 |
| imec.xpand | 2 |
| 15th Rock | 1 |
| A&E Investments | 1 |
| Access Ventures | 1 |
| Anzu Partners | 1 |
| Archer Venture Capital | 1 |
| BAM Elevate | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2296%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 TEL Venture 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 TEL Venture Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Feb 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for TEL Venture Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in TEL Venture Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
23 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and produces composite materials with optimal properties that cannot be achieved with single materials. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aledia creates microLED technologies for display screens | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| ANMS Integrated Systems provides reliable marine navigation, automation, communication, and IT solutions to vessels worldwide from our base in Mumbai, India. | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Cellid develops AR glasses and related solutions | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| ChEmpower develops technology for chip manufacturing | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| EN2CORE Technology develops plasma technology for semiconductor and display processes, as well as energy and environmental applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Enthought provides software and AI solutions for enterprise R&D | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| FMC develops and provides persistent memory solutions for efficient AI scale-out | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Fortaegis develops a secure compute architecture for AI and quantum computing | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Genalyte provides on-site blood testing with rapid lab results | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Hinalea Imaging develops and provides hyperspectral imaging solutions for applications such as food quality and safety monitoring, and precision agriculture. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hprobe tests magnetic devices for next-generation semiconductors | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Light Polymers develops and applies liquid crystal technology for various applications, including display products and sensors. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Nanosys produces and applies quantum dot technology to various products and industries | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and produces innovative high-voltage equipment using unique high-voltage technology | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Phosio develops and manufactures metal oxide coatings for optical components and displays | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Pivotal Systems designs and manufactures gas flow solutions for the semiconductor industry | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Preferred Networks develops and provides AI products, solutions, and technologies, including AI semiconductors, computing platforms, and generative AI models, across various industries. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tel.co.jp
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 23
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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