# Aramco Ventures

> Aramco Ventures is a VC fund in Dhahran backing Energy and Manufacturing. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aramcoventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aramco_ventures
- Website: https://aramcoventures.com/

Aramco Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in start-ups and technologies that have strategic relevance to Aramco's business, with the ability to scale and disrupt.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$32M |
| Series A | $9.5M–$49M |
| Series B | $6.4M–$139M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 7 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 15% |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Renewable Energy | 6 | 13% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 26% |
| Series B | 9 | 20% |
| Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 3 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 15% |
| China | 3 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Andrasco | Senior Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-j-andrasco |
| Frank Andrasco | Senior Investment Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-andrasco |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MittiLabs | Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| MittiLabs | Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Hang Ten Systems | Hang Ten Systems is an enterprise AI services company that helps large organizations turn AI investments into measurable business outcomes. | $32M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Hyde Hydrogen Energy | Hyde Hydrogen Energy is a green hydrogen industry company, focusing on carbon neutrality, providing advanced products and digital platform services for global new energy applications. | $14.7M | Series B | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Applied Atomics | Applied Atomics is a Rapid Response Network in Space. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Via Separations | Via Separations is enabling industrial decarbonization with its novel chemistries that allow manufacturing facilities to slash their energy consumption while making more product. Targeting the 12% of US energy consumption that is wasted each year separating chemicals, Via reduces the load of the process by 90%, electrifies the mostenergy-intensive step in chemical production, and generates additional revenue for the customer. Today, Via is deploying its technology in pilot trials at pulp & paper facilities to eliminate 100 million metric tons of CO2 by 2050. Via’s innovation is a highly selective and robust membrane filter that replaces the energy-inefficient heat-based separations in industrial processes. Spun out of MIT’s Department of Material Science & Engineering, Via has scaled up the technology by more than 10 million times and demonstrated working prototypes at a commercial scale. | $36M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| EnerVenue | EnerVenue provides metal-hydrogen batteries for large-scale renewable and storage applications. | $300M | Series B | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Xage Security | Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Barbara | Barbara is the Edge AI Platform for organizations seeking to accelerate their AI deployments to production, within a distributed environment. With the rapid advancement of hardware processing power and the widespread availability of Machine Learning models, the Edge has emerged as a superior choice for deploying AI in critical processes. Barbara isthe preferred solution for energy distributors, infrastructure operators and industrial manufacturers, that seek to add intelligence to their equipment providing privacy, autonomy, and real-time capabilities, that the cloud can not offer. | $5.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 18, 2026 |  |
| PCG Power | PCG Power's vision is to stick to its core business of distributed power station investment and the long-term development direction of new energy system solution providers, to provide comprehensive and high-quality green energy and carbon-saving services to industrial and commercial owners, and to assist my country in achieving carbon peakingand carbon neutrality. |  | Series B | Jan 15, 2026 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Aramco Ventures invest in?

Aramco Ventures invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 46 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 Aramco Ventures's check size?

Aramco Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$32M at Seed, $9.5M–$49M at Series A and $6.4M–$139M 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 Aramco Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Aramco Ventures?

Public channels for Aramco Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 Aramco Ventures?

The team at Aramco Ventures includes Frank Andrasco (Senior Investment Director) and Frank Andrasco (Senior Investment Director). 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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