# Cadence Ventures

> Cadence Ventures is a VC fund in San Jose backing Hardware, Electronics and Machine Learning. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Nov 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Nov 2026

Cadence Ventures is a VC fund in San Jose focused on Hardware and Electronics. Cadence Ventures is the venture capital arm of Cadence Design Systems.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hardware | 1 | 100% |
| Electronics | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |
| Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tenstorrent | Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries. | $1.5B | Series E | Oct 19, 2026 | http://tenstorrent.com |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Agostinelli Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agostinelli-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ARK Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-investment-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eclipse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eclipse-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fidelity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Innovation X Advisors — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maverick Silicon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maverick-silicon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Cadence Ventures invest in?

Cadence Ventures invests primarily in Hardware, Electronics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series E stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Cadence Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cadence Ventures closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 1 investment 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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