# Aero X Ventures

> Aero X Ventures is a VC fund backing Aerospace and Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Winston Salem, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aero-x-ventures
- Website: https://aeroxventures.com

Aero X Ventures is an investment agency that provides investment capital to advanced air mobility industries and synergistic markets.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 4 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Augmented Reality | 2 | 18% |
| B2B | 1 | 9% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 45% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basil Yap Yap | Co-Founder, Partner, and Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basil-yap-yap |
| Kyle Mounts | Co-Founder and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-mounts-b3c6 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Claros | Claros is a power management platform provider that utilizes cutting-edge hardware and software to enhance energy distribution and usage at data centers, thereby boosting compute performance and maximizing efficiency. | $30M | Seed | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| JetZero | JetZero is an aerospace company that designs and manufactures zero-emissions jet aircraft.Airlines have long sought more fuel-efficient aircraft and now that climate change is a worldwide problem, planes with minimal carbon emissions, if not zero, are unavoidable. Their objective is to hasten such shift. JetZero is actively collaborating withNASA on sustainable aircraft ideas that will soon make zero-emission flight a reality.JetZero is headquartered in Long Beach, California and was founded in 2020. | $175M | Series B | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Vermeer | Vermeer is a mixed reality and AI-enabled visualization and command and control for autonomous systems in GPS-denied environments. It is an AR mission planning tool and autonomous sUAS mission execution for both DoD and commercial customers. | $10M | Series A | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| ZeroMark | ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons. | $235.6K | Series A | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Edgecortix | EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) processing at the edge. The company’s platform includes the SAKURA-II AI accelerator, a low-power silicon co-processor capable of real-time generative AI inference on multi-billion-parameter models within an approximately 8 W envelope. Italso offers the MERA compiler and software framework that enables developers to deploy models across heterogeneous systems, leveraging flexibility through the Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) architecture. The hardware-software co-design approach ensures adaptable, runtime-reconfigurable performance for use cases ranging from vision to language applications. |  | Series B | Aug 17, 2025 |  |
| Privateer | Privateer is creating the data infrastructure that enables sustainable growth for the new space economy. The company's proprietary knowledge graph technology offers much-needed enhancements to how it collects and processes information about space objects. Even as orbital highways become more congested, this data and the applications built onit will allow space operators to maneuver safely and effectively. | $56.5M | Series A | May 06, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M |  | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Wilder Systems | Wilder Systems is a robotics and automation company that specializes in the aerospace industry. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Argon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argon-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Companyon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/companyon-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hub Angels Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hub-angels-investment-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LaunchCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchcapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LaunchPad Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchpad-venture-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aero X Ventures invest in?

Aero X Ventures invests primarily in Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Aero X Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Aero X Ventures?

The team at Aero X Ventures includes Basil Yap Yap (Co-Founder, Partner, and Principal) and Kyle Mounts (Co-Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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