# Crucible Capital

> Crucible Capital is a VC fund backing Energy, Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.cruciblecap.xyz

Crucible Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage startups, particularly in physical and digital infrastructure. It aims to automate workflows and optimize operations through software solutions. The firm specializes in investing in digital infrastructure and has a notable portfolio that includes a data center infrastructure managementplatform.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 27% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ornn AI, Inc | OranAI offers a comprehensive AI marketing solution that addresses operations, strategy, content production, and insights.OranAI concentrates on sectors including consumer electronics, fashion, FMCG, and cosmetics that have large budgets and quick decision-making cycles. | $33M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Shatterdome Energy | Shatterdome Energy operates as a financial infrastructure layer for the modern energy and power sectors. The company focuses on transforming distributed energy resources—including solar, wind, battery storage, and flexible load—into tradable financial assets and market-moving derivatives. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Pillar | Pillar provides SaaS for commodity and currency risk management that automates data analysis, trade execution, and post‑trade accounting. | $20M | Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Supra Elemental Recovery | Supra Elemental Recovery develops a technology platform to selectively recover high-purity critical minerals from dissolved industrial waste streams. The company initially focuses on gallium and scandium, which are important to semiconductor, aerospace, energy, defense, and communications applications. Its process uses proprietary reusablecartridges that capture and release elements in sequence, aiming to refine multiple elements from multiple feedstocks. The technology is also being evaluated for elements such as cobalt, lithium, and lanthanides used in batteries, magnets, and electronics. Supra works with partners that supply waste feedstock or purchase recovered critical minerals. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Standard Nuclear | Standard Nuclear is focused on advancing nuclear energy by providing innovative nuclear fuels to support the next generation of reactors. The company contributes to renewable energy by developing innovative nuclear fuels that enhance efficiency and sustainability, thereby reducing the environmental impact of energy production. By promoting nuclearenergy, the company supports the clean energy transition, providing a stable and reliable power source that complements intermittent renewables like solar and wind. | $140M | Series A | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Aravolta | Aravolta provides software that helps data center operators monitor, control, and manage complex infrastructure through a unified platform. The company’s products combine data center infrastructure management, network monitoring, and asset tracking into a single interface to support real-time visibility and operational workflows. Its platformincludes tools for automated alerts, infrastructure planning, compliance reporting, and integration with diverse hardware systems to streamline workflows and visibility across electrical, cooling, and IT assets. Aravolta also offers features such as customizable customer portals and remote monitoring capabilities that enable remote oversight and control of modular or distributed facilities. Its services target colocation providers, cloud operators, and data center managers seeking integrated operational and compliance software solutions. | $5.1M | Seed | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| Internet Backyard | Internet Backyard is an AI platform that embraces financial stability of the compute economy by automating quoting and billing. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Ostium | Ostium enables users to trade off their assets directly on-chain. Ostium Labs is developing a quick trading mechanism for real-world goods on the chain, driven by Arbitrum and Chainlink. | $20M | Series A | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Spectral Compute | Spectral brings the familiar "write once, rrecompile for different hardware" paradigm of CPU development to accelerated computing. Our toolkit, SCALE, compiles a superset of CUDA C++ to a hardware-agnostic instruction set with no intrinsic overhead. By providing the core "CUDA-X" APIs, SCALE empowers engineers and datascientists to choose the ideal hardware for their HPC and AI/ML workloads, freeing them from vendor lock-in. | $6M | Seed | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Ornn | Ornn is developing the financial infrastructure and price discovery layer for a compute-intensive AI economy. | $5.7M | Seed | Oct 28, 2025 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Decisive Point](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decisive-point-8d94) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fundomo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundomo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Crucible Capital invest in?

Crucible Capital invests primarily in Energy, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Crucible Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Crucible Capital closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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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