# Cohort Ventures

> Cohort Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Battery, Computer and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://cohort.vc/

Cohort Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Battery | 1 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Element Energy | Element Energy, a startup with technology that significantly improves the performance, lifetime, reliability and cost of large battery packs used in a wide range of applications including stationary and renewable energy storage and hybrid and electric vehicles. | $73M | Series B | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Element Energy | Element Energy, a startup with technology that significantly improves the performance, lifetime, reliability and cost of large battery packs used in a wide range of applications including stationary and renewable energy storage and hybrid and electric vehicles. | $28M | Series B | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Aliro Technologies | Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includesworld-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks.Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C. | $7.3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Edison International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edison-international) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Keyframe Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keyframe-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LG Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lg-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Radar Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radar-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AFW Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afw-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Cohort Ventures invest in?

Cohort Ventures invests primarily in Battery, Computer and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 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 Cohort Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cohort Ventures closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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 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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