# Ecliptic Capital

> Ecliptic Capital is a VC fund in Austin backing Software and Health Care. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 63%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Mar 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eclipticcapital/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/eclipticcapital
- Website: https://www.ecliptic.capital/

Ecliptic Capital is a VC fund in Austin focused on Software and Health Care. Ecliptic Capital was founded by Mike W. Erwin, whurley, Adam Lipman and diverse team of serial entrepreneurs and early-stage investors who have started, scaled, and sold multiple companies. Our partners have Fortune-100 experience at companies such as Apple, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America / Merrill Lynch, Genentech, AT&T, Austin Ventures,Microsoft, Allstate, and others. We focus on getting involved early with entrepreneurs and working with them toward efficient execution, rapid scale, and outsized value creation. We are using networks, data and trust to bridge between the digital and physical worlds in opportunistic markets – particularly defensive, lagging industries present in undercapitalized geographies. We target disruptive companies with emergent technologies that can be leveraged into sustainable business advantages across a wide array of adjacent markets. Ecliptic, headquartered in Austin Texas, is connecting the strong macroeconomic activity in Texas and the broader mid-continent to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |
| Series A | $3M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Health Care | 3 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 8% |
| Electronics | 2 | 8% |
| Nanotechnology | 2 | 8% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 58% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 63% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Lipman | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-lipman |
| Mike Millard | Operating Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-millard |
| Mike Boyle | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-boyle |
| Mike W. Erwin | Founder, GP and Chief Investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-erwin |
| Varun Pandit | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varun-pandit |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Koda Health | Koda Health offers digital health tools and services focused on advance care planning and kidney care. The company provides a platform that guides patients through defining and documenting their medical care preferences for serious illness, and supports coordination for those with chronic kidney disease. It integrates with electronic medicalrecords (EMRs) using standards like HL7 FHIR to share patient directives securely. Koda Health also uses risk models to identify patients with complex health needs and connects them to patient advocate support. The company emphasizes user-friendly interfaces, video explainers, and interactive value identification to help individuals understand treatment options and communicate their wishes. |  | Seed | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| NanoTech Materials | Nanotech is a material science company focused on using Nano Technology to fireproof the world and reduce global energy consumption. |  | Seed | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| Unchained | Bitcoin cold storage and financial services that put you in control of your keys. Our suite of financial services include multisig vaults, a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin IRAs. No matter your experience with bitcoin, our team of bitcoin experts will help you get set up with confidence. | $60M | Series B | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Veloce Energy | The Veloce FastGrid™ rejuvenates the grid edge using modular, flexible, extensible energy storage, and interconnecting systems. The company's ARGOS software platform surrounds the systems, providing a single pane of glass interface, secure transactions, and intelligence. Their systems solve the problem of connecting new large loads at the gridedge and reduce costs and time for EV charging station development and deployment by >50%, enable distributed storage to be deployed everywhere, and enable new financing structures such as charging as a service. |  | Series A | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Strangeworks | Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com | $24M | Series A | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Veloce Energy | The Veloce FastGrid™ rejuvenates the grid edge using modular, flexible, extensible energy storage, and interconnecting systems. The company's ARGOS software platform surrounds the systems, providing a single pane of glass interface, secure transactions, and intelligence. Their systems solve the problem of connecting new large loads at the gridedge and reduce costs and time for EV charging station development and deployment by >50%, enable distributed storage to be deployed everywhere, and enable new financing structures such as charging as a service. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 23, 2022 |  |
| Lazarus 3D | Lazarus 3D, a HealthTech Startup founded in 2014, has a mission to improve the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes by improving surgery planning and enabling pre-operative surgical rehearsals. Through our proprietary, patented soft-tissue 3D printing technology, Lazarus 3D can create replicas of individual patients directly from theMRI/CT scans within 24 hours in soft, tissue-mimicking materials. These PRE-operative SUrgical REhearsal (PRE-SURE) models can be cut, sutured, bleed and operated on just like in a real patient. Our technology benefits patients, providers and payers by improving outcomes, surgery planning, reducing medical errors, and reducing the overall treatment costs. Lazarus 3D technology is currently in use at some of the top hospitals in North America, as well as large Medical Device Companies, and Medical Schools / Residency Training programs across the US and internationally. | $10.3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Koda Health | Koda Health offers digital health tools and services focused on advance care planning and kidney care. The company provides a platform that guides patients through defining and documenting their medical care preferences for serious illness, and supports coordination for those with chronic kidney disease. It integrates with electronic medicalrecords (EMRs) using standards like HL7 FHIR to share patient directives securely. Koda Health also uses risk models to identify patients with complex health needs and connects them to patient advocate support. The company emphasizes user-friendly interfaces, video explainers, and interactive value identification to help individuals understand treatment options and communicate their wishes. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Authena | Authena is an IoT and Blockchain platform used for traceability and authenticity protection of brands. With its platform, the company revolutionizes how brands of high-value goods protect their products and reputation against counterfeiting and reach unprecedented levels of end-user engagement. It protects product identity against counterfeit,product diversion, and fraud by gaining access to detailed customer insights and analytics and improving finances by limiting distribution costs and boosting direct-to-consumer sales. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 17, 2021 |  |
| Nabaco | Nabaco is a developer of fruit protection technology used to protect the planet and reducing waste. It extends the shelf life of the fruits and vegetables by coating them with a transparent solution that is tasteless and odorless, enabling users with fresh and organic products. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ecliptic Capital invest in?

Ecliptic Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Ecliptic Capital's check size?

Ecliptic Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed and $3M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ecliptic Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Ecliptic Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Ecliptic Capital?

The team at Ecliptic Capital includes Adam Lipman (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Mike Millard (Operating Partner) and Mike Boyle (Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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