Airbus Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Airbus Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Aerospace. Airbus Ventures invests in autonomous mobility, electrification, low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, security, and beyond. AV continuously fosters close and trusted relationships with other leading venture firms, actively offering hands-on expertise to our portfolio companies. Weproudly leverage the richly dense networks of our mothership Airbus and its supply chain, as well as the wider ecosystem of our Limited Partners. We work with multiple LPs – including Airbus SE, Development Bank of Japan Inc., Mitsubishi HC Capital, Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., and McKinley Capital – to better enable our entrepreneurs to grow and succeed.
- Total investments:
- 107
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $150M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Airbus Ventures invests in
Stages Airbus Ventures invests in
Countries Airbus Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3.2M–$10M
- Series A
- $7M–$28M
- Series B
- $11M–$109M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (18%)
- Aerospace 17 (16%)
- Information Technology 12 (11%)
- Robotics 10 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 34 (32%)
- Series B 25 (23%)
- Seed 13 (12%)
- Series C 8 (7%)
- Funding Round 8 (7%)
Country
- United States 34 (32%)
- France 5 (5%)
- Japan 4 (4%)
- Singapore 4 (4%)
- Switzerland 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lewis Pinault
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Matthieu Repellin
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Claas Carsten Kohl
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Nicole Conner
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Phillip Oung
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Featherless.ai
|
Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $20M / Series A / Apr 30, 2026 | |
CesiumAstro
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CesiumAstro delivers communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space or airborne platforms. Each of the company's products combines carefully selected COTS components with the traditional reliability necessary for aerospace systems. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, andother mobile devices and generate electronically steerable beams of radio waves carrying information between the devices, and its software stitches the information together. | $270M / Series C / Feb 02, 2026 | |
CUR8
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CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies. | Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Aerospacelab
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Aerospacelab is a company established near Brussels aiming at tackling some of the most challenging problems with a completely different paradigm. | $109.4M / Series B / Aug 26, 2025 | |
Qunnect
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Qunnect is a spin-off venture from the Quantum Information Technology group at Stony Brook university that focusses on engineering novel quantum devices enabling future information networks and quantum computing using photons to communicate and atoms to store and process quantum information. In particular, Qunnect focuses on engineering novelquantum memories and quantum sources that will enable future information networks and quantum computing. | $10M / Series A / Jun 24, 2025 | |
Impulse Space
|
Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $300M / Series C / Jun 03, 2025 | |
SUN METALON
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SUN METALON aims to create a world where metal products can be produced from local ores. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redondo Beach, California. | $9M / Series A / May 21, 2025 | |
Solestial
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For new space projects that need 100X more power @ 1/10 the price vs. incumbent III-V technology. Regher develops radiation-hardened silicon solar technology to make power in space affordable.There is a demand for 100 MW of solar for space in the next 5 years. But the existing space solar panels are extremely expensive and very slow tomanufacture. With today's technology 100 MW of space solar panels will cost more than $60B and it will take more than 10 years to manufacture. Regher Solar solves this problem. Regher Solar is revolutionizing the access to power in space with space tolerant ultrathin silicon solar panels, which for the first time on the market, will have both high efficiency and low cost in a single light-weight and flexible package. | $17M / Series A / May 15, 2025 | |
Fourier
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Fourier is developing a modular and fully automated hydrogen production system, designed to be deployed where and when it is needed the most. This eliminates the need for hydrogen transportation. The company aims to make on-site hydrogen universally accessible, contributing to a sustainable energy future. Their innovative architecture is a keyelement in this mission. | $18.6M / Series A / Apr 02, 2025 | |
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Featherless.ai
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Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $5M / Seed / Mar 17, 2025 | |
| See all 107 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Airbus Ventures invest in?
Airbus Ventures invests primarily in Software, Aerospace and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 107 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Airbus Ventures's check size?
Airbus Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$10M at Seed, $7M–$28M at Series A and $11M–$109M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Airbus Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Airbus Ventures?
The team at Airbus Ventures includes Lewis Pinault (Partner), Matthieu Repellin (Investment Manager) and Claas Carsten Kohl (Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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