# CoreNest Capital

> CoreNest Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corenestvc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CoreNestVC
- Website: https://www.corenest.com

CoreNest Capital is a VC fund in Dubai focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. CoreNest is a powerhouse for nurturing and funding startups in cutting-edge sectors like AI, Blockchain, and Fintech. With a commitment to shaping a bright future of innovation, CoreNest provides more than just funding. It offers a complete support system, ensuring every new venture grows and thrives. From the early stages to full-fledged growth,startups receive personalized assistance and strategic investment opportunities. At CoreNest, it's not just about funding startups; it’s about ensuring shared growth and helping every innovative idea rise to its peak of success and impact.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for CoreNest Capital. Shizune tracks 4 team members at CoreNest Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/corenest?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.4M–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$6M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2B–$6.6B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 42% |
| Software | 8 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 18% |
| Robotics | 5 | 15% |
| FinTech | 3 | 9% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 39% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 24% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 67% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Ras | Co-Founder & GP | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-ras |
| Reza Bashash | Co-Founder & GP | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reza-bashash-932c |
| Pedro Crespo | Investment Strategy Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-crespo |
| Phillip Pierini | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phillip-pierini-adc7 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nilo | Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars. | $4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Bond | Bond is an AI-powered productivity platform that provides a real-time pulse on company operations without the need for regular status meetings or manual updates. |  | Seed | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Cheddr | Cheddr is a social sports gaming platform designed to make sports engagement fast, fun, and rewarding. |  | Seed | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Orbit Fab | Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets. It develops the infrastructure needed to grow a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses (communications and Earth observation) and new industries like spacetourism, manufacturing, and mining. The future for satellites is no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 by its Co-Founders Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Neuralink | Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) systems designed to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices. The company focuses on creating a scalable neural implant that records and transmits brain signals with high precision. Neuralink's primary device, often referred to as a"Link," includes ultra-thin threads that are surgically placed in the brain to monitor neural activity and potentially stimulate it. These devices are intended for applications in medical treatment, such as helping individuals with paralysis regain motor function or communication capabilities. Neuralink also invests in developing robotic surgical systems to perform the implantation procedure with high accuracy and minimal invasiveness. The long-term goal involves enabling broader human-computer symbiosis, including interaction with artificial intelligence systems. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Perceptive | Developer of an image-guided robotic restorative dentistry platform for crowns and fillings. CYBERDONTICS enables dentists to identify, remove and restore tooth decay with higher precision than is currently possible using human senses and human hands. CYBERDONTICS adds capacity to dental clinics. For patients, CYBERDONTICS aims to provide superiorrestorations at a lower cost and in less time. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| PAX Markets | PAX revolutionizes capital markets as the first crypto exchange to operate on a single chip, removing the need for a full data center. |  | Seed | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Ottonomy | Ottonomy IO is a tech startup which builds autonomous robot fleets to make contactless deliveries for safe and enhanced user experience, saving millions of dollars for eCom, Logistics, retail industries to name a few. The state of the art mapping and perception elements are unique to navigate in ever changing surroundings for both indoor andoutdoor environments integrated with a fleet management and monitoring cloud framework. |  | Seed | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Nilo | Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars. |  | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| Safe Superintelligence | Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering. | $2B | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 12, 2025 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Team Ignite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team-ignite-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MGX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mgx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CoreNest Capital invest in?

CoreNest Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CoreNest Capital's check size?

CoreNest Capital typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$6.5M at Seed, $500k–$6M at Pre-Seed and $2B–$6.6B at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CoreNest Capital participates in.

### How do I contact CoreNest Capital?

Public channels for CoreNest Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at CoreNest Capital?

The team at CoreNest Capital includes Bob Ras (Co-Founder & GP), Reza Bashash (Co-Founder & GP) and Pedro Crespo (Investment Strategy Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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