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 people live. 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:
- 111
- 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–$52M
- Series C
- $9.4M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 23 (21%)
- Semiconductor 16 (14%)
- Software 14 (13%)
- Information Technology 14 (13%)
- Electronics 13 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 24 (22%)
- Series B 24 (22%)
- Series C 13 (12%)
- Funding Round 13 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (9%)
Country
- United States 49 (44%)
- France 3 (3%)
- South Korea 3 (3%)
- Taiwan 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anand Kamannavar
Founder & Global Head
|
Founder & Global Head | Total investments: 14 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com | $55M / Series B / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| 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. | $125M / Series B / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| FlexCompute is an IT company that specializes in providing solutions related to simulation. It focuses on accelerating innovation with proprietary R&D solvers leveraging cutting-edge advanced computing. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 12, 2026 | ||
| Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing. | $20M / Series A / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
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FAQ
What does Applied Ventures invest in?
Applied Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Semiconductor and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 111 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Applied Ventures invest in?
Applied Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$30M at Series A, $6.5M–$52M at Series B and $9.4M–$35M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Applied Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Applied Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Applied Ventures?
The team at Applied Ventures includes Anand Kamannavar (Founder & Global Head), Rajesh Ramanujam (Director) and Steven Konsek (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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