# 8X Ventures

> 8X Ventures is a VC fund in Dubai backing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/8xventures
- Website: https://8xventures.co/

8X Ventures is a Deep-Tech focused venture capital firm. We invest and enable startups that create sustainable value. 8X Ventures invest and enable startups that will lead disruptive innovation and create sustainable value to industries and economies.Our focus areas:Geographies: Asia (primarily India and Singapore), MENA (primarily UAE, KSA,and Egypt), and EuropeIndustries: CleanTech (primarily Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Solutions), Smart logistics, Smart mobility, and Industry 4.0Technologies: Artificial intelligence (AI), Big data, 3D printing, Robotics, and Internet of things (IoT)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $552k–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $450k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 25% |
| Robotics | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 8 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solinas Integrity | Solinas solves problems of water leakage and eliminates manual scavenging. Their products are being designed for Indian challenges with products like short-range and long-range pipeline inspection and robotic cleaning of septic tanks. They provide internal condition assessment and defect detection in pipelines, identifying and analysing leaks,corrosion, sediments, and dents in critical pipeline infrastructure using NDT techniques. | $5.5M | Series A | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| SanchiConnect | SanchiConnect platform enables deep tech companies acquire funding, talent and customers. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Tiea Connectors | Tiea Connectors provide products such as low voltage connectors responding to the needs of size reduction and high vibration resistance, high voltage connectors for electric vehicles, and electronic components, mechanical parts and equipment. For the low-voltage category, RJ45 common core type Ethernet connector, PoDL ethernet connectors, USBtype-C waterproof connectors for the telecom sector and waterproof multi-pin connectors and compact waterproof connectors used in engine ECUs and airbag ECUs and for the high-voltage segment, direct connectors applicable to HEVs and EVs in the automobile sector. | $8M | Series A | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Lightspeed Photonics | Lightspeed Photonics is a building of modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects for data centers and near-edge computing. | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Enerzi | Enerzi develops microwave–plasma systems for clean hydrogen production and engineered carbon materials. | $1.9M | Seed | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Trishul Space | Trishul Space is a deep-tech aerospace startup that develops high-performance propulsion systems using staged combustion cycles and an AI-driven failure detection mechanism to make space access faster, cheaper, and more competitive on a global scale. | $450.4K | Pre-Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Pantherun Technologies | Pantherun is a fabless semiconductor Cyber Security company that provides technology that can encrypt data without any drop in speed of communication. There is no discernible change to the packet structure. This enables all devices to seamlessly encrypt and transmit data, thus defeating the hacker’s attempts to get anything meaningful from a devicethat employs Pantherun’s encryption approach.To propagate, demonstrate and give customers a reference point for testing and working with our chip IP, we build complete products, targeting few segments like IOT and Commuter safety and information in Industrial sectors like Railway, Smart City and Road Safety that are US$17 Billion a year markets with CAGR of 6%.We see ourselves providing products to prove our IP, thus reaching market acceptance quicker, with the aim to license our IP to the entire microprocessor markets. | $12M | Series A | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| Neuralzome Cybernetics | Making Robots Sentient! | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 11, 2025 |  |
| Tiea Connectors | Tiea Connectors provide products such as low voltage connectors responding to the needs of size reduction and high vibration resistance, high voltage connectors for electric vehicles, and electronic components, mechanical parts and equipment. For the low-voltage category, RJ45 common core type Ethernet connector, PoDL ethernet connectors, USBtype-C waterproof connectors for the telecom sector and waterproof multi-pin connectors and compact waterproof connectors used in engine ECUs and airbag ECUs and for the high-voltage segment, direct connectors applicable to HEVs and EVs in the automobile sector. | $2.6M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| SanchiConnect | SanchiConnect platform enables deep tech companies acquire funding, talent and customers. |  | Seed | Sep 30, 2024 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does 8X Ventures invest in?

8X Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 8X Ventures's check size?

8X Ventures typically joins rounds of $552k–$6.5M at Seed, $450k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 8X Ventures participates in.

### When did 8X Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 8X Ventures closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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