# DataPower Capital

> DataPower Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datapower-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/datapowervc
- Website: https://www.datapower.vc/

DataPower Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. DataPower Ventures invests in founders who are building at the cross-section of Applied AI or DeepTech. We back founders committed to building software products in the Data, ML, and AI ecosystems.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 36% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 23% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 20% |
| Analytics | 8 | 18% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 25% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 37 | 84% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Yakobovitch | Founder, General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-yakobovitch |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Corerunway | Core Runway is a fully AI-centric platform built to automate complex reporting workflows. It processes inputs such as material data sheets, waste dockets, and project documentation to extract and structure critical information. By leveraging AI, the platform generates compliant reports automatically, significantly reducing reporting time and manualeffort. | $115K | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Apptronik | Apptronik develops humanoid robots designed to operate alongside human workers and assist with physical tasks. The company focuses on creating general-purpose robotic systems that combine hardware, software, and AI to perform activities such as material handling, case picking, palletizing, and machine tending in industrial and logisticsenvironments. Its flagship product, the Apollo humanoid, is engineered to navigate spaces built for people and interact with existing tools and infrastructure. Apptronik also integrates robotic solutions through service and ownership models to support operational workflows. The company partners with technology and industrial firms to advance robot capabilities and real-world deployment. | $520M | Series A | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Castelion | Pallas is a venture-backed defense tech company applying modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to critical national security challenges, specifically to solve affordability, scale, and supply chain robustness. | $350M | Series B | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| Physical Intelligence | Physical Intelligence is a company working on integrating general-purpose AI with robotics and physical devices. While still in the early stages, Physical Intelligence is actively seeking new team members and aims to share more information soon. | $600M | Series B | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Polygraf | Polygraf creates AI-powered tools to combat fake & malicious digital content. Organizations using the Polygraf Trust Engine benefit from real-time authentication, analytics and insights that power growth. Polygraf is set to address the growing challenges posed by human and AI-generated misinformation head-on. Polygraf’s multilayer AI protocolcan be used to authenticate any kind of digital text, audio & video content for consumers, businesses and government organizations. The protocol is now capable of detecting and authenticating both AI and human-generated content and determining its trustworthiness in real-time, as is showcased in the Polygraf browser extension. The company was ranked as the Top Analytics Startup to Watch Globally by Dealroom, and listed on Top Startups in Austin by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, and SXSW/Established Startup Of The Year 2023 Top 10. | $9.5M | Seed | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Groq | Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $750M | Series E | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Rippling | Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $450M | Series G | May 09, 2025 |  |
| Polygraf | Polygraf creates AI-powered tools to combat fake & malicious digital content. Organizations using the Polygraf Trust Engine benefit from real-time authentication, analytics and insights that power growth. Polygraf is set to address the growing challenges posed by human and AI-generated misinformation head-on. Polygraf’s multilayer AI protocolcan be used to authenticate any kind of digital text, audio & video content for consumers, businesses and government organizations. The protocol is now capable of detecting and authenticating both AI and human-generated content and determining its trustworthiness in real-time, as is showcased in the Polygraf browser extension. The company was ranked as the Top Analytics Startup to Watch Globally by Dealroom, and listed on Top Startups in Austin by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, and SXSW/Established Startup Of The Year 2023 Top 10. | $510K | Pre-Seed | Apr 25, 2025 |  |
| Hammerspace | Hammerspace breaks data free from the constraints of storage systems, making it possible for users and applications to access data from anywhere by providing the software-defined data platform and data services for your Global Data Environment. 1. Unified Data Access Layer (UDAL) • Global File System • Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, VMWare, MacOS 2.Data Orchestration Tools • Objective-based policies • File-driven data mobility and replication • Universal data movers • Customizable metadata • Supports over 100 individual volumes / buckets 3. Automated Data Services • Replication • Snapshots with file-level recovery • WORM • Tiering and mobility • Undelete • Versioning • Encryption 4. Universal Storage Options • Multi-Cloud, Multi-Region, Hybrid-Cloud • Multi-Data Center • Software Defined Storage (utilize existing storage or choice of commodity) • Block / NAS / Object / Snowflake | $100M | Series B | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| Perplexity | Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $500M | Series D | Dec 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does DataPower Capital invest in?

DataPower Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 44 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 DataPower Capital?

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### Who are the partners at DataPower Capital?

The team at DataPower Capital includes David Yakobovitch (Founder, General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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