# Asymmetry Ventures

> Asymmetry Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 286 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 286
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asymmetryventures
- Website: https://asymmetry.vc

Asymmetry Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $5M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 13% |
| Health Care | 31 | 11% |
| Biotechnology | 26 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 23 | 8% |

258 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 166 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 26 | 9% |
| Series A | 17 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 2% |
| Convertible Note | 4 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 134 | 47% |
| India | 12 | 4% |
| Canada | 8 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rob Ness | General Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-ness-19af |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Enlightra | Enlightra develops photonics technology that helps in extreme-bandwidth data transmission. | $15M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Persist AI | Persist assist pharmaceutical companies in developing long-acting formulations 50% faster. Because the formulation development process is manual and relies on scientific intuition, it takes a pharmaceutical company 5-10 years to develop a long acting formulation for a drug. This effort is divided into five years of pre-clinical development and fiveyears of clinical testing. Their goal is to use machine learning and automation to reduce the time required for pre-clinical formulation development to three months, making the formulation development process 50% faster. | $12M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Coreshell Technologies | Coreshell Technologies is accelerating the world’s transition to electric transportation and renewable energy by solving the key degradation issue in rechargeable batteries. Their breakthrough nanolayer thin-film coating technology protects batteries from degrading chemical reactions and is uniquely capable of seamlessly fitting into existingmanufacturing while producing the step change needed in the capacity, safety, and cost of batteries. |  |  | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Coreshell Technologies | Coreshell Technologies is accelerating the world’s transition to electric transportation and renewable energy by solving the key degradation issue in rechargeable batteries. Their breakthrough nanolayer thin-film coating technology protects batteries from degrading chemical reactions and is uniquely capable of seamlessly fitting into existingmanufacturing while producing the step change needed in the capacity, safety, and cost of batteries. | $24M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| SimCare AI | SimCare AI is a healthcare technology firm that is using artificial intelligence to revolutionize clinical training. | $2M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $25M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Jome | Find, compare, and buy your new construction home — all in one place | $9.8M | Series A | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Reforged Labs | Reforged Labs’ SDK makes it possible to generate endless, live gaming content. With a combination of generative AI and recommender systems, game studios can use our SDK to produce intelligent characters with dynamic behavior and truly divergent, branching narratives. As lifelong gamers, Robert & Oscar are on a mission to make games more fun,immersive, and personalized. | $3.9M | Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| ViaBot | ViaBot develops outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties, including retail spaces, sports arenas, and corporate buildings. Primarily used for outdoor cleaning, the ViaBot One also features vision-based security to capture details like vehicle license platesViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is basedin Santa Clara, California, United States. | $5M | Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Flux Auto | Flux Auto develops modular autonomous driving technology for trucks. The platform is built to be retrofit into new or in-use vehicles, and doesn't use LiDARs, making it affordable for customers. | $6M | Seed | May 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 286 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 55 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Asymmetry Ventures invest in?

Asymmetry Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 286 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 Asymmetry Ventures's check size?

Asymmetry Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$5M at Seed, $125k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Asymmetry Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Asymmetry Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Asymmetry Ventures?

The team at Asymmetry Ventures includes Rob Ness (General 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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