# Innovation Endeavors

> Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm built for founders reimagining the technical frontier.

We partner with early-stage founders chasing the edge of what's possible across AI, computing infrastructure, sensing, electrification, robotics, and biology. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California, and publishes its portfolio companies, its team, investment focus areas, and essays on this site.

Every page on this site has a plain-Markdown twin: append `.md` to any URL (`https://www.innovationendeavors.com/approach.md`), or request the canonical URL with `Accept: text/markdown`. Responses carry `Vary: Accept`. The portfolio and the team are also published as JSON — those are the cheapest way to read either list. No key, quota, or sign-up is involved.

## Basic fund information

- We invest primarily from pre-seed to Series B.
- We lead or co-lead rounds, taking a concentrated investment strategy.
- Key themes and areas of focus include computing infrastructure, biotechnology, healthcare, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, robotics, sensing, hardware, computer graphics, energy and power, computer vision, and related areas of frontier technology.
- We are currently investing out of our fifth, $630M fund. We have invested in hundreds of companies over the lifetime of the firm.

## Who we work with

We tend to invest in engineers, scientists, and researchers at the frontier of their domain, pushing the edge of what's possible. Many of the founders we work with have spent years, or decades, pursuing a line of research or becoming the world's expert in a given technical domain.

## Who we are

We are a focused, boutique firm. Founders tend to like working with us because we are extremely technical, go extremely deep, and appreciate what it looks like to build R&D intensive companies.

When you are building something technically ambitious, you want someone who is patient and has the context required to help you navigate complicated decisions. You also want someone who will have conviction even when things aren't just straight up and to the right, as they never are with large technical bets.

Most of us have very technical backgrounds. Our team is made up of former founders, former engineers, and product managers who studied computer science, engineering, and related topics in school.

We are all deeply curious — and what we love most about this job is working with the people pushing the edge of what's possible in the world.

We are a close-knit team, and when you work with us you work with the fund, not one isolated partner in a massive organization.

## When to use this site

- Use it to answer whether Innovation Endeavors has invested in a given company, and to get the current portfolio with each company's status (active, acquired, IPO), focus, and website: https://www.innovationendeavors.com/portfolio.json.
- Use it to answer who works at the firm, what each person does, and which portfolio companies they work with: https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team.json.
- Use it to state what the firm invests in — the four areas, and the companies in each: https://www.innovationendeavors.com/approach.md.
- Use it to quote the firm's own published position on a technology or market: https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights.md indexes every essay and investment announcement by date, each readable as Markdown.
- Use it to give someone the firm's contact route or office address: https://www.innovationendeavors.com/contact.md.
- Do not use it as a submission endpoint. There is no API for pitching, no authentication, and no account system; a founder reaching out goes through the form at https://www.innovationendeavors.com/contact or emails hello@innovationendeavors.com.

## Core pages

- [Innovation Endeavors: Reimagining the technical frontier](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/index.md): Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm built for founders reimagining the technical frontier.
- [Portfolio](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/companies.md): Portfolio companies backed by Innovation Endeavors across intelligent software, computing infrastructure, physical economy, and engineering health.
- [Approach](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/approach.md): How Innovation Endeavors partners with technical founders on hard engineering and science problems—and how Curiosity Camp brings together people exploring what’s next.
- [Team](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team.md): Entrepreneurs, technologists, and engineers drawn to questions without easy answers — and the technical breakthroughs that change what’s possible.
- [Insights](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights.md): Essays, investment announcements, and market theses from the Innovation Endeavors team.
- [Contact](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/contact.md): Reach Innovation Endeavors about investing, partnerships, media, and general inquiries.

## Developer resources

- [Innovation Endeavors portfolio manifest (JSON)](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/portfolio.json): versioned JSON list of the portfolio companies published on this site — id, name, website, status, full description, short description. It is the firm's current published portfolio, not its complete investment history. No auth. Cached for one hour.
- [Innovation Endeavors team manifest (JSON)](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team.json): versioned JSON list of everyone at the firm — name, role, biography, the portfolio companies they work with, profile URL. No auth. Cached for one hour.
- [Innovation Endeavors Markdown API](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/api/markdown?path=/approach): returns any page as `text/markdown`; pass the page path as `?path=`. Equivalent to requesting that page with `Accept: text/markdown`.
- [Sitemap](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL, with last-modified dates for posts.
- [robots.txt](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/robots.txt): crawl rules. All major AI crawlers are allowed.

## Recent insights

- [Plugging in AI, Part 3: “The data center next door will lower your electric bill”](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/plugging-in-ai-part-3-the-data-center-next-door-will-lower-your-electric-bill.md): Two years ago, we wrote about the electricity gauntlet – the collision between A...
- [Meet Soffi: the first truly collaborative workplace for product development](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/meet-soffi.md): Over the last few years, AI has undeniably transformed the pace of software engi...
- [How Agents Use Systems Differently](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/how-agents-use-systems-differently.md): Increasingly, coding agents are the ones provisioning and interacting with syste...
- [A decade of software infrastructure](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/a-decade-of-software-infrastructure.md): Today, we are excited to announce Kenneth Auchenberg is joining the team at Inno...
- [When Machines Build for Machines](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/when-machines-build-for-machines.md): For as long as technology has existed, it has been built by humans, for humans....
- [All agents will become coding agents](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/all-agents-will-become-coding-agents.md): Yesterday, Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a new consumer product experience
- [Meet Inception: A new paradigm in language modeling](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/meet-inception.md): The “foundation model” category has thus far been characterized by two primary m...
- [Meet Mesa: Rethinking the SDLC for AI codegen](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/mesa-code-verification.md): “I do think code review / validation is going to start becoming the bottleneck o...
- [Announcing Davis Treybig’s promotion to General Partner](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/davis-treybig-gp.md): We’re thrilled to share that Davis Treybig has been promoted to General Partner...
- [The AI data center gold rush: what's next beyond power?](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/future-data-centers.md): Last spring, we shared our perspective on the ‘electricity gauntlet’ of AI infra...
- [Immigration is broken. AI will help us fix it.](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/immigration-ai.md): Immigration is essential to American progress. Immigrants have founded iconic co...
- [Meet LightTable: Building the AI-Native Operating System for Pre-Construction](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/meet-lighttable.md): In U.S. construction alone, unplanned rework, tearing out and redoing mistakes,...
- [Pricing AI: How to capture value in a world of AI abundance](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/pricing-ai.md): Originally posted in Davis Treybig's substack TLDR- I think you can differentiat...
- [Meet Intuigence: bringing advanced AI to process manufacturing](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/meet-intuigence.md): One of the biggest transformative opportunities for AI lies in the physical indu...
- [The most important investment I ever made](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/the-most-important-investment-i-ever-made.md): As an investor, I’ve been fortunate to back some extraordinary founders tackling...
- [The 2025 build list: AI ideas to reshape the physical economy](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/2025-physical-economy.md): At Innovation Endeavors, we’re thesis-driven investors. That means we don’t just...
- [There’s never been a better time to be human](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/the-intelligence-revolution.md): This article originally appeared on Fortune.com: https://fortune.com/2025/06/27/...
- [State of Foundation Models 2025](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/foundation-models-2025.md): ‍ Generative AI has hit escape velocity and foundation models are at the center...
- [Meet Extend: the document processing cloud](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/meet-extend.md): Just a few years ago, getting data reliably out of a PDF meant six months of OCR...
- [AI as the new interface to government](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights/ai-government-interface.md): A glimpse of the future I (Tomas) recently went through a special kind of purgat...

## Optional

- [Full insights index](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/insights.md): all posts, grouped by year.
- [Disclosure](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/disclosure.md): Disclosure for Innovation Endeavors.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.innovationendeavors.com/terms-of-service.md): Terms of Service for Innovation Endeavors.