Applied Ventures
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
Applied Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Manufacturing and Semiconductor. Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service, and software products. At Applied Materials, they apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way peoplelive.Applied Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies that promise to deliver high growth and exceptional returns. Their charter is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that advance or complement Applied Materials' core expertise. Their investments help develop technologies and markets that provide natural extensions to Applied Materials' core business and stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays, solar PV, and related products and services.
- Total investments:
- 105
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Applied Ventures invests in
Stages Applied Ventures invests in
Countries Applied Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.5M–$30M
- Series B
- $6.5M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 23 (22%)
- Semiconductor 16 (15%)
- Electronics 13 (12%)
- Software 12 (11%)
- Information Technology 12 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (22%)
- Series B 22 (21%)
- Funding Round 14 (13%)
- Series C 13 (12%)
- Series D 8 (8%)
Country
- United States 46 (44%)
- France 3 (3%)
- South Korea 3 (3%)
- Taiwan 2 (2%)
- China 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anand Kamannavar
Founder & Global Head
|
Founder & Global Head | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Frank Lee
Sr. Investment Director
|
Sr. Investment Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Rajesh Ramanujam
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Steven Konsek
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixx Technologies is a technology company. | $33M / Series A / Nov 30, 2025 | ||
| Summer Robotics is a machine vision company that builds robotic perception software for the industrial manufacturing and mobility markets.Summer Robotics has developed a perception platform that enables robots to work in more complex and fast moving environments than previously possible. We are working with established partners to build the nextgeneration of robotic measurement and manufacturing capabilities that will significantly improve quality and productivity. Summer Robotics' mission is to give all robotic systems superhuman perception and response capabilities, enabling entirely new and valuable applications in markets such as manufacturing and mobility. | Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $115M / Series D / Apr 07, 2025 | ||
| Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany. | $30M / Series A / Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $155M / Series D / Dec 11, 2024 | ||
| Microoled is a provider of microdisplays for mobile near-to-eye viewing devices used by consumers, medical professionals, and the security industry. Founded in 2007, Microoled headquarters, R&D, and a production facility are located in Grenoble, a renowned center of excellence in France for chipset and nanotechnology development. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| TXOne Networks offers cybersecurity solutions to protect industrial control systems from cyberattacks. It also develops industrial control systems (ICS) for the industrial IoT environments, including smart manufacturing, smart city, and smart energy, to help industries protect their systems from cyber threats. In addition, the company offersnetwork-based and endpoint-based products to secure the OT network and mission-critical devices in a real-time defense-in-depth manner. Both IT and OT can have comprehensive visibility regarding the ICS assets, protocols, control commands, risks, and threats. | $51M / Series B / May 07, 2024 | ||
| VVDN has more than a decade of experience in Product Engineering & Manufacturing electronic solutions. We help customers steer their next-generation solutions with end-to-end design, development, and manufacturing – all under one roof. We offer a unique value proposition by being a one-stop-shop for our customers by offering complete hardware,software, mechanical, testing, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing services. Our main focus is to help customers with their next technology innovation in the space of 5G, Datacenter, Wireless, AI/ML on Vision-based solutions, IoT, Automotive, Cloud & Apps. To enable the same, we have set up R&D centers, testing lab infrastructure, and world-class manufacturing facilities in India.VVDN’s India HQ is Global Innovation Park at Manesar, Gurugram, India and its North America HQ’s is located in Fremont, CA, USA. We help global customers across several regions including US, Canada, Europe, India, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 19, 2024 | ||
| Founded in December 2017, MakinaRocks is a startup specializing in industrial machine intelligence solutions. The company develops industrial AI solutions and a machine learning platform. MakinaRocks’s solutions mitigate the challenges of industries sites—optimizing production quality and process efficiency of the automotive, energy, semiconductor,and battery sectors. Built for ML engineers, MakinaRocks’s end-to-end ML platform covers integral machine learning and model development processes, enhancing while simplifying the transition to AI. | $2.2M / Dec 31, 2023 | ||
| Lightspeed Photonics is a building of modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects for data centers and near-edge computing. | Pre-Seed / Sep 28, 2023 | ||
| See all 105 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Applied Ventures invest in?
Applied Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Semiconductor and Electronics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 105 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 Applied Ventures's check size?
Applied Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$30M at Series A and $6.5M–$40M 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 Applied Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Applied Ventures?
The team at Applied Ventures includes Anand Kamannavar (Founder & Global Head), Frank Lee (Sr. Investment Director) and Rajesh Ramanujam (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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