40 North Ventures
VC Fund
Campbell, United States
40 North Ventures is a VC fund in Campbell focused on Software and Manufacturing. 40 North Ventures is 40 North’s early-to-growth stage venture capital fund focused on technologies in the industrial sector that enable businesses to be more data-driven, agile, consumer-centric and environmentally sustainable.
- Total investments:
- 44
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 68%
- Fund size:
- $200M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 40 North Ventures invests in
SoftwareManufacturingAutomotiveEnterprise SoftwareArtificial Intelligence
Stages 40 North Ventures invests in
Secondary MarketSeries CSeries BSeries DSeries A
Countries 40 North Ventures invests in
United StatesCanadaBahamasUnited Kingdom
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (16%)
- Manufacturing 5 (11%)
- Automotive 4 (9%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (9%)
Stage
- Secondary Market 11 (25%)
- Series C 5 (11%)
- Series B 4 (9%)
- Series D 3 (7%)
- Series A 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 24 (55%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Bahamas 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marianne Wu
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Ben Sampson
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vertical Aerospace designs and develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for passenger and mission-oriented transport. The company’s products include piloted eVTOL airframes such as Valo, which are engineered to operate with zero operational emissions, vertical lift capability, and extended range and speed for urban andintercity routes. It also works on hybrid-electric variants and mission profiles that extend to cargo and emergency services to broaden use cases. Vertical Aerospace collaborates with aerospace partners on safety certification, propulsion systems, and advanced materials to support aircraft development and integration. The company engages with global aviation operators and infrastructure partners to prepare these aircraft for entry into service following regulatory approval. | Post-IPO Equity / Dec 16, 2021 | ||
| Verbit.ai is an AI company that specializes in combining capturing the spoken word using artificial intelligence and supported by humans. It provides transcription and captioning solutions as well as Audio description, Translation, Dubbing and Note taking. It also offers Generative AI applications for unlocking the value of the spoken word. Thecompany was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $150M / Series E / Nov 23, 2021 | ||
| Figment offers institutional-grade staking solutions for established and emerging Proof-of-Stake protocols, allowing users to earn rewards and secure digital assets. The company provides resources for staking with protocols like Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot, featuring security and validator performance monitoring. Figment delivers staking APIs,rewards reporting tools, and on-chain data sets for asset managers and exchanges. | $50M / Series B / Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI. | $19M / Series A / Aug 09, 2021 | ||
| FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform suitable for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC.FTX was incubated by AlamedaResearch, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this, FTX has had industry order books from day one. | $1B / Series B / Jul 20, 2021 | ||
| Claroty is a cybersecurity company that develops a platform to secure cyber-physical systems and connected operational technology across industrial, healthcare, commercial, and public sector environments. Its platform offers capabilities for asset inventory, exposure and risk management, network protection, secure access controls, and continuousthreat detection to help organizations identify and prioritize vulnerabilities and anomalous activity. Claroty products are designed for deployment both in the cloud through its xDome offering and on-premises with solutions like continuous monitoring tools. It integrates with existing security infrastructure and provides contextualized visibility into devices and network behavior to support risk reduction and operational continuity. | $140M / Series D / Jun 17, 2021 | ||
| Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range oftransit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel.The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA. | $415M / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 15, 2021 | ||
| Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduceproduction downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts.Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank. | $24.8M / Series B / Jun 07, 2021 | ||
| ASAPP is the agentic Customer Experience Platform (CXP) purpose-built for enterprise customer service. CXP orchestrates AI agents, human expertise, and enterprise systems to resolve customer issues faster and more accurately across voice and digital channels.At the core of the platform is GenerativeAgent®, created to autonomously listen, reason,act, and improve through interaction intelligence. Enterprise service teams use ASAPP to run their operations with measurable outcomes, governance, and production-scale reliability.To learn more about ASAPP, visit www.asapp.com. | $120M / Series C / May 19, 2021 | ||
| Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decisionengine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $260M / Series C / May 18, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does 40 North Ventures invest in?
40 North Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Automotive startups, most often at Secondary Market and Series C stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at 40 North Ventures includes Marianne Wu (Managing Director) and Ben Sampson (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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