# Boost VC

> Boost VC is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 321 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 321
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boost-vc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BoostVC
- Website: http://boost.vc
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/boostvc

Boost VC is an early stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM+, investing in deep tech: aerospace, VR/AR, energy, climate, robotics, crypto, bio/health, AI/ML & more. Boost VC leads the first round of $2M or less.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $406k–$6.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $105k–$3M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1.7M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 54 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 45 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 33 | 10% |
| Virtual Reality | 30 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 27 | 8% |

270 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 116 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 102 | 32% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 31 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 19 | 6% |
| Series A | 17 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 191 | 60% |
| Canada | 11 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 6 | 2% |
| Germany | 4 | 1% |

30 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erin Gray | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-gray |
| Aaron Stanton | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-stanton |
| Adam Draper | Founder & Managing Director | 45 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-draper |
| Ashutosh Priyadarshy | Portfolio Company | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashutosh-priyadarshy-2 |
| Brayton Williams | Co-Founder and Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brayton-williams |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SkinBit | SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Claryx | Claryx is building the hospital immune system, reading the genomes of confirmed patient infections, linking related cases as outbreaks, and tracing each back to its likely source. When that source is in the building (a sink, a shared piece of equipment, a particular room), Claryx finds it by matching the patient's strain against a digital twinof the hospital's microbiome, sequenced from its air, its water and its surfaces, all on proprietary chemistry cheap enough to run continuously. Founded by brothers Kurt and Dirk Hackenberger, Claryx is based in New York and live across multiple health systems. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Intrinsic Power | Intrinsic Power provides smart energy management systems with chargers, solar inverters, and energy storage onboard. |  | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Nyad | Nyad is an AI-powered software platform that assists wastewater treatment plants in more efficiently testing and treating conditions. It helps treatment operators maintain microbiological balance, allowing to eliminate wastewater pollutants as effectively as feasible. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Armatrix Automations | Armatrix Automations is a manufacturer and designer of industrial and defense robotics. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Fid Labs | Fid Labs uses advancements in generative AI to create developer tools specifically designed for robots. | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Muse Bio | Muse Bio is a biotechnology research centre that transforms menstrual blood into renewable mesenchymal stem cells. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Radiant | Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $300M | Series D | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Matta | Matta delivers artificial intelligence software and services for businesses. Offerings include custom model development, data preparation, and API-based deployment across computer vision and language tasks. Tooling covers experiment tracking, evaluation, monitoring, and scalability to move prototypes into production. Services also addressintegration with existing data pipelines, security considerations, and MLOps practices. Engagements include solution design, implementation, and knowledge transfer so internal teams can operate and iterate models over time. | $14M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Rotostitch | Rotostitch is changing apparel manufacturing using proprietary technology and software. Its purpose is to enable on-demand, high-flexibility production that achieves sustainability goals while adapting at the speed of modern fashion. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 321 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2) — VC Fund, 32 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Mana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mana-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Spacecadet Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spacecadet-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Boost VC invest in?

Boost VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 321 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 Boost VC's check size?

Boost VC typically joins rounds of $406k–$6.7M at Seed, $105k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $1.7M–$5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Boost VC participates in.

### How do I contact Boost VC?

Public channels for Boost VC 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 Boost VC?

The team at Boost VC includes Erin Gray (Mentor), Aaron Stanton (Mentor) and Adam Draper (Founder & Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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