# Apollo Projects

> Apollo Projects is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenville, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.apolloprojects.com/

Apollo Projects is an early-stage investment fund managed by the Altman brothers. It invests in founders who have audacious visions of the future, and who can execute to make their visions reality.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Apollo Projects. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Apollo Projects. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/apollo-project?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.6M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.1M–$4.2M |
| Series B | $20M–$193M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 18% |
| Chemical | 3 | 11% |
| Health Care | 3 | 11% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 11% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 46% |
| Series B | 5 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 14% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Grant | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 64% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Altman | Partner | 117 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-altman |
| Max Altman | Managing Partner | 67 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-altman |
| Sam Altman | Partner | 187 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-altman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GALY | GALY develops biomaterials through biotechnology and synthetic biology in order to discover new ways to produce natural things. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts. | $33M | Series B | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Glydways | Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $20M | Series B | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Shelpful | Shelpful is the company that combines artificial intelligence with human empathy and accountability. | $3M | Seed | Dec 15, 2023 |  |
| ExcepGen | ExcepGen is a venture-backed, early stage biotechnology company located in San Francisco. The company is focused on solving fundamental underlying problems in drug discovery and applying those solutions to create a new generation of therapeutics. | $4M | Seed | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| Asynchronous | Async is a voice app to free up calendars and emails using voice messages people can read, share, and react to. | $4M | Seed | May 23, 2023 |  |
| AirOps | AirOps is an AI-powered content operations platform that enables businesses to build scalable LLM workflows combining multiple AI models with brand data to drive content-powered growth and revenue. Founded in 2021, the company helps marketing teams execute large-scale content strategies by integrating models like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini withworkflow automation, templates, and AI guardrails while keeping humans in the loop. | $7M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Presto | Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Presto’s enterprise-grade voice, vision, and touch technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests. With over 250,000 systems shipped, Presto is one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry. Founded at M.I.T. in 2008, Presto isheadquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. with customers including many of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S. | $70M | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Fleetzero | Fleetzero is building battery electric cargo ships to affordably decarbonize ocean freight. | $15.5M | Seed | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| Mozart Data | Mozart Data is an out-of-the-box data stack that provides the quickest and easiest way to consolidate, organize, and get your data ready for analysis without engineering or technical knowledge. Go from unstructured, siloed, and messy data to analysis-ready with just button clicks, SQL, and a few hours. | $15M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Planetary | Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035. | $2.6M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Innovacorp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovacorp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Apollo Projects invest in?

Apollo Projects invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Chemical startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 28 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 Apollo Projects's check size?

Apollo Projects typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$11M at Seed, $2.1M–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $20M–$193M 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 Apollo Projects participates in.

### How do I contact Apollo Projects?

Public channels for Apollo Projects include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Apollo Projects?

The team at Apollo Projects includes Jack Altman (Partner), Max Altman (Managing Partner) and Sam Altman (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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