# Caltech

> Caltech is a VC fund in Pasadena backing Health Care and Manufacturing. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pasadena, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/california-institute-of-technology
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Caltech
- Website: http://www.caltech.edu
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/californiainstituteoftechnology

Caltech is a VC fund in Pasadena focused on Health Care and Manufacturing. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future.The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand humanknowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Caltech. Shizune tracks 12 team members at Caltech. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/caltech?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 27% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 27% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 18% |
| Medical | 1 | 9% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 2 | 18% |
| Series D | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anima Anandkumar | Bren Professor | 1 | — |
| Dean Currie | Vice President | 0 | — |
| Harold Brown | President Emeritus | 0 | — |
| Andrea Choe | Postdoctoral Scholar | 0 | — |
| Ehsan Abbasi | Research Assistant | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pinc Technologies | PINC Technologies is a Caltech spinout that creates sophisticated integrated nonlinear photonic circuits and devices. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Tera AI | Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments. | $8M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Persperity Health | Persperity Health is pioneering the future of women's health with cutting-edge, non-invasive technology that tracks female hormones in real time. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Biostate AI | Biostate AI develops generative AI that benefit all human health. | $4M | Seed | Jul 08, 2024 |  |
| Asari AI | Asari AI builds AI that plans, abstracts, verifies, and discovers new skills and knowledge. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Captura | Captura is a Direct Ocean Capture company that develops a carbon capture system to catch scalable carbon from the atmosphere. It develops cost-competitive carbon dioxide capture and sequestration technology to extract it from ocean water to meet the rapidly growing demand in the credit market. Its system combines innovative technology with thenatural carbon removal powers of the ocean to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a large scale and low cost, providing a critical capability in the fight against climate change. | $12M | Series A | Jan 12, 2023 |  |
| Dantari | Developer of a pharmaceutical platform and drugs created for the treatment of the central nervous system. The company's platform and therapies specialize in the research and development of small and large molecule therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier, enabling clients to have rapidly advance therapies to treat the patients and providemeaningful medical improvement in their lives. | $47M | Series A | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| Foldax | Foldax is developing synthetic heart valves with the goal of delivering non-thrombogenic aortic and mitral valves at dramatically lower costs to existing artificial or tissue valves. It operates in the manufacturing sector. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. | $20M | Series D | Jun 22, 2020 |  |
| ChromaCode | ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics. It leverages patented mathematical methods and algorithmic enhancements to enrich signal processing from life science instrumentation. The company uses this to extract new information on biochemistry reactions and substantially increase the performance capabilities of today’sgold-standard biochemical assays at a very low cost.ChromaCode was founded in 2012, ChromaCode is headquartered in Carlsbad, California. | $28M | Series C | Dec 17, 2019 |  |
| Ondax | Ondax was founded in 2000 by a team from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Bonn. Ondax built a manufacturing infrastructure for high volume production to produce Volume Holographic Gratings. The Volume Holographic Grating has many advantages over thin film and fiber Bragg gratings. The narrow-band filteringcapability in reflection mode (0.1 nm) over a large aperture (25 mm) is unique. This unique filtering technology is used in high-power laser diodes wavelength stabilization, beam combining, astronomy multi-line filtering, and spectral imaging. | $2.5M | Series D | Jun 26, 2008 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Freeflow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freeflow-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Wilson Hill Ventures — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arcturus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcturus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Alcatel Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alexandria Venture Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandria-venture-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Physicians Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-physicians-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Caltech invest in?

Caltech invests primarily in Health Care, Manufacturing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Caltech?

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### Who are the partners at Caltech?

The team at Caltech includes Anima Anandkumar (Bren Professor), Dean Currie (Vice President) and Harold Brown (President Emeritus), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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