# Axel Bichara

> Axel Bichara is a seed investor at Bolt (Boston) backing Software and Automotive. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bolt](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bolt-io)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axelbichara
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/axelbichara

Axel Bichara is a seed investor at Bolt in Boston focused on Software and Automotive. Axel Bichara is the Partner and Founder of Bolt and Co-Founder and General Partner of Baukunst. He is a former Partner at Atlas Venture. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and INSEAD.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| Automotive | 2 | 10% |
| Pet | 1 | 5% |
| Apps | 1 | 5% |
| Video | 1 | 5% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 29% |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 52% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eyebot | Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $20M | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Eyebot | Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $6M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Software Defined Automation | Software Defined Automation is an industrial software and manufacturing company that delivers industrial control as a service. It specializes in the fields of software, control systems, machinery manufacturing, and information technology. | $10M | Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Eyebot | Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Five Flute | Five Flute important technical discussion stays connected to the engineering work it impacts. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Fi | Fi is a provider of next Generation of Smart Dog Collars. | $3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Loci Controls | Loci Controls develops wireless sensor and actor-network devices for optimizing the extraction of methane from landfills. The company's real-time monitoring, measurement, and control of landfill gas composition, pressure, temperature, and flow has proven to increase gas collection by 20% or more while improving safety and reducing operationalcosts. They combining patent-pending wellhead-mounted products, 24/7/365 monitoring, cloud-based algorithms and analytics, and field service personnel that optimizes gas collection, increases profitability, and mitigates environmental, health, and safety risks for landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operators.Loci Controls' mission is to develop wireless sensor and actor-network devices for optimizing the extraction of methane from landfills.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Fall River, Massachusetts. | $765K | Seed | Mar 13, 2014 |  |
| Dunwello | Dunwello is a professional tool designed to help you be both happy and productive at work. It’s free for anyone within a company to launch and use. The Boston startup 'why' – the belief that every person at every company should be both happy and productive." | $1.4M | Seed | Feb 14, 2014 |  |
| EnglishCentral | EnglishCentral aims to become the premier, web-based conversational English language learning destination for desktop and mobile users.They focus on helping users with their spoken English, using proprietary speech recognition technology that "listens" to users' speech and then scores that speech based on their pronunciation andsyntax. They allow users to choose content they love, from a massive database of video content covering popular subject areas (e.g., travel, sports, politics, business, movies) and existing popular content (e.g., Obama's speeches). | $2M |  | Jan 01, 2013 |  |
| VideoIQ | VideoIQ, Inc. produces intelligent video surveillance systems. The company's products include Icvr intelligent IP cameras and encoders with video recording and analytics for building video analytics, content-aware storage, and intelligent networking into security cameras and encoders; and HD intelligent smart video analytics engines, which actas a digital guard, transforming video surveillance into a system for warning and security protection in various environment and under various conditions. It serves water treatment, chemical, and processing plants in the utilities and infrastructure sector; factory settings in the industrial sector; and truck and train terminals, and highways in the transportation sector. The company also serves government buildings, borders, and military bases in the homeland security industry; and headquarters facilities, hospitals, and production facilities in the corporate campus sector. In addition, it serves car dealerships, parking lots and garages, rental yards, hospitals, and construction sites in the commercial outdoor sector; and luxury homes, notable persons, second homes, and the residential home construction sector. The company sells its products in the United States and Europe through video surveillance integrators and resellers. VideoIQ, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. | $3.5M | Series C | Jan 10, 2012 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AlleyCorp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alleycorp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Bolt

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect. Bolt invests early and with conviction, leading or co-leading the first round of financing in over 90% of our portfolio companies. Bolt has invested in over 70 companies and is currently investing from our $70M Fund.

5 contacts available at Bolt.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Shields | VP Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shields-2 |
| Amit Chaturvedy | Advisory Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-chaturvedy |
| Axel Bichara | Partner and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axel-bichara |
| Greg McAdoo | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-mcadoo |
| Jeffrey Akiki | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-akiki |

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## FAQ

### What does Axel Bichara invest in?

Axel Bichara invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Pet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Axel Bichara last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Axel Bichara closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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