# AIN Ventures

> AIN Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software, Aerospace and Information Technology. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
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- Website: https://www.ainventures.com/
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AIN Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Aerospace. Early Stage Venture Fund that invests in dual-use technology (deep tech) companies and veteran-led companies.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Aerospace | 6 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 16% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 13% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 22% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 69% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nionyx Bio | Nionyx Bio builds AAV-based gene therapies to address some of the most potent kidney genetic diseases. | $4M | Seed | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Proteus Space | Proteus Space compresses the spacecraft definition and AI&T life-cycle from years to months, delivering full CAD based Design Packages with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) validation on record timelines. This transformational speed and scale, backed by Unlimited Data Rights to the resulting design specifications, fundamentally changes the ability torapidly prototype and field responsive space assets on radically shorter timelines. | $6.1M | Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| NOVI | NOVI is solving some of the biggest problems associated with today’s Earth Observation (EO) services. NOVI’s on-board edge computing and low-cost multi-sensor satellites significantly reduce cost, complexity and latency associated with usage of space-based data, democratizing access for all to enable widespread adoption and usage of EOcapabilities. |  | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Cerbrec | Expedite Discovery. Cerbrec Graphbook is a graphical AI platform for everyone to build bespoke AI solutions. |  | Seed | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Locus Lock | Locus Lock provides next-generation GPS solutions to businesses all around the world. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Perceptive Space | Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Solideon | Additive Space Technologies uses additive manufacturing systems, a machine-learning collaborative system for building vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, or Mars. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| Arcee.ai | Arcee is building context adapted SLM's (Small Language Models) through our SLM Adaptation system, all in your own cloud. This system all includes a domain pretraining layer, an alignment layer and a RAG layer—all in one system.Arcee's SLM Adaptation system allows you to get models into prod fast and runs in your own environment. Thisprovides you full control over model, data and intellectual property, thus removing data privacy and security concerns, and removing any licensing uncertainty. | $5.5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Trogenix | Trogenix operates as a therapeutics company, that treats aggressive cancers. | $19.1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| florrent | florrent is a bio-based materials and energy storage company that develops solutions to critical bottlenecks in global decarbonization and electrification of transportation, and buildings. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Centre Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centre-street-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AIN Ventures invest in?

AIN Ventures invests primarily in Software, Aerospace and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did AIN Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AIN Ventures closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 32 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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