# Common Metal

> Common Metal is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Information Technology. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.commonmetal.com

Common Metal is a investment firm

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 64% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |
| CRM | 1 | 9% |
| Email | 1 | 9% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alien | Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems. | $7.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight is an AI company that offers an on-screen virtual assistant that helps AI models understand desktop activity. | $40M | Series A | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Keplar | Keplar Voice is an AI-powered market research platform that enables organizations to conduct thousands of simulated, natural voice conversations with customers, delivering deep qualitative insights at scale, faster and more cost-effectively than traditional research methods. It uses advanced conversational AI to engage, interview, and analyzesynthetic or real audiences, making actionable customer insights available in hours instead of months. | $3.4M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Lila Sciences | Lila Sciences is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to support research in life sciences, chemical sciences, and materials sciences. It develops AI-driven tools and autonomous labs to improve research efficiency and facilitate scientific discoveries. The platform is designed to enhance various aspects of the scientific method andcontribute to advancements in technology and innovation. | $235M | Series A | Sep 14, 2025 |  |
| Nucleus | Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform. | $14M | Series A | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Cove | Cove is a visual AI collaboration space that helps users and their AI collaborator to design and plan ideas. | $6M | Seed | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| Vantage Discovery | Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. | $16M | Series A | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Vantage Discovery | Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| teachme.to | Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything. | $2M | Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| Woven | Everyday Agents is pioneering the development of LLM-powered Agents for high-consideration conversations |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Future Positive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-positive) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Common Metal invest in?

Common Metal invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Common Metal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Common Metal closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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