# BRC Innovation

> BRC Innovation is a VC fund in Boston backing Software, Robotics and Machine Learning. See 20 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brain-robotics-capital
- Website: http://www.brainrobotcap.com

BRC Innovation is a venture capital firm that supports scientist-entrepreneurs across the board building businesses based on groundbreaking scientific advances in the areas where the company has the technical expertise and business experiences. The firm works with a number of incubators, accelerators, technology transfer offices, associations, andcorporations to bring radical science and technology into its economy.BRC Innovation was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$18M |
| Series A | $5M–$16M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 45% |
| Robotics | 6 | 30% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 30% |
| Consumer Electronics | 3 | 15% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 40% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 85% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Turing Video | Turing is dedicated to intertwining the future of security with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Their intelligent systems can be deployed as an integral component of existing video surveillance security solutions. |  | Series B | Mar 02, 2021 | http://www.turingvideo.com/ |
| NeuralGalaxy | Neural Galaxy is a brain science company that originated at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The mission of Younao Galaxy is to help solve brain diseases and achieve greater intelligence. Focusing on global vision, based on breakthrough brain science research results, using new software and hardwaretechnologies, Younao Galaxy helps humans to deeply understand our brains, understand high-level intelligence, and solve the enormous challenges facing human society. | $18M | Seed | Apr 01, 2020 | https://www.neuralgalaxy.com/ |
| Fathom | Fathom specializes in delivering hologram-like 3D experiences using readily-available printers, inks, and media. It allows users to print the patterns duplex on standard clear film and the 3D object reappears, extending 30x beyond the film thickness. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 05, 2020 | https://www.fathomoptics.com |
| AnChain.ai | AnChain.AI develops artificial intelligence software for blockchain security, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance investigation. Its platform combines blockchain analytics, smart contract intelligence, and transaction monitoring to detect and prevent illicit activity across digital assets and decentralized finance ecosystems.AnChain.AI’sproducts include CISO™, an AI-driven compliance and investigation operations platform that automates blockchain tracing and reporting for AML enforcement; BEI™ API, a blockchain ecosystem intelligence solution that provides real-time risk scoring and transaction monitoring across multiple blockchains; and SCREEN™, a smart contract risk evaluation engine that analyzes contract code, detects vulnerabilities, and identifies high-risk wallet activity.The company also offers Web3SOC, a security operations center for Web3 assets that monitors and responds to emerging blockchain threats. AnChain.AI’s technology supports government agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset service providers in conducting investigations, enhancing AML/CFT compliance, and managing blockchain-related risks. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 13, 2020 | https://www.AnChain.ai |
| TVision | TVision is an audience measurement company that provides information on TV and cable television viewer engagement. It provides second-by-second, person-level data on how people watch TV, including who is watching, what they are watching, and how much attention they are paying to both linear and streaming TV. TVision data is used by advertisers,agencies, networks, streaming content providers, measurement companies, and data platforms to make more informed media decisions, measure performance, create engaging content, and benchmark their results against competitors. TVision was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City and has offices in Boston and Tokyo. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 21, 2019 | http://www.tvisioninsights.com/ |
| Ghost Robotics | Ghost Robotics is revolutionizing legged robotics and the market for highly agile and fast tele-operated and autonomous unmanned ground drones for military, homeland, intel, and enterprise markets. Our quadrupedal UGVs (Q-UGVs) are unstoppable. |  | Seed | Mar 15, 2019 | http://www.ghostrobotics.io/ |
| American Robotics | American Robotics is an industrial drone developer that specializes in rugged, real-world environments. Through innovations in robot autonomy, machine vision, edge computing, and AI it has created a fully-automated drone capable of continuous, unattended operation. In January 2021, American Robotics became the first company approved by the FAA tooperate fully-automated drones with no humans on-site, representing an historic milestone for the commercial drone industry.The company was founded by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford roboticists with a shared vision for bringing robotic technology out of the lab and into the real world. American Robotics was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. | $5M | Series A | Jan 25, 2019 | http://www.american-robotics.com |
| MemVerge | MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed. |  | Seed | Apr 02, 2018 | https://www.memverge.com/ |
| Rethink Robotics | Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronicsand more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor. With Rethink Robotics, manufacturers increase flexibility, lower costs and can invest in skilled labor—all advantages in fueling continuous innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. Committed to accelerating robotics innovation in manufacturing and beyond, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Research Robot gives academic and corporate research environments a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit for creating custom applications. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Bezos Expeditions, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures. | $18M | Series E | Aug 24, 2017 | http://www.Rethinkrobotics.com |
| Empirical Systems | Empirical Systems is making it possible for everyone to do rigorous statistical analysis, even when their data is expensive, sparse, or complex. Empirical’s AI, developed over 10 years at the MIT Probabilistic Computing Project as BayesDB, automates analysis of tabular data, creates generative models, and offers probabilistic answers to ad hocqueries. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 31, 2017 | https://empirical.com/ |

10 of 20 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BRC Innovation invest in?

BRC Innovation invests primarily in Software, Robotics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 20 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 BRC Innovation invest in?

BRC Innovation typically joins rounds of $200k–$18M at Seed, $5M–$16M at Series A and $1M–$3.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not BRC Innovation's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds BRC Innovation took part in.

### When did BRC Innovation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for BRC Innovation closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 20 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?

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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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