Elementum Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Elementum Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Elementum Ventures approach to venture is a bit bespoke. They are guided by close study of your company, your market, your needs, and your opportunity. They not only invest capital at the earliest of stages, they also invest theirselves, getting their hands dirty alongside yours, playing roles you wouldn’t expect us to play — COO, CFO, sales rep,headhunter, janitor. they work with founders they like — people with passion, humility, and grit who are building something urgent, necessary, and often unexpected.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Elementum Ventures invests in
Stages Elementum Ventures invests in
Countries Elementum Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.4M–$1.4M
- Series A
- $25M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (14%)
- E-Commerce 3 (11%)
- Machine Learning 3 (11%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (54%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (11%)
- Series A 3 (11%)
- Series B 2 (7%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Chelf
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ben Patterson
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Kurt Keilhacker
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design. | $200M / Series C / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| Circe grows their food through fermentation. Using the right fats they make food people want to eat and use CO2 as a feedstock to scale production in an economically viable and climate-friendly way. | $8M / Seed / May 15, 2024 | ||
| Twelve is the carbon transformation company, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil. Our groundbreaking technology eliminates emissions by transforming CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that today are made from fossil fuels. We call it carbon transformation, and itfundamentally changes how we can address climate change, reduce emissions and reverse the carbon imbalance. Reinventing what it means to be a chemical company, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world and a fossil free future through the power of chemistry. The company is based in Berkeley, California. | $130M / Series B / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design. | $130M / Series B / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies. | $30M / Series A / Dec 09, 2021 | ||
| Mekonos creates a proprietary cell-engineering platform designed for cell therapies on a chip. Mekonos is a Silicon Valley Venture-backed technology company — creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform based on scalable silicon technology for our partners engaged in drug discovery and development. | $25M / Series A / Nov 09, 2021 | ||
| Mekonos creates a proprietary cell-engineering platform designed for cell therapies on a chip. Mekonos is a Silicon Valley Venture-backed technology company — creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform based on scalable silicon technology for our partners engaged in drug discovery and development. | $4.6M / Seed / Nov 23, 2020 | ||
| Flexcap is a venture capital investment firm based in New York, New York. The firm focuses on early stage investments in enterprise SaaS and financial services. | $3M / Seed / Sep 04, 2020 | ||
| Twelve is the carbon transformation company, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil. Our groundbreaking technology eliminates emissions by transforming CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that today are made from fossil fuels. We call it carbon transformation, and itfundamentally changes how we can address climate change, reduce emissions and reverse the carbon imbalance. Reinventing what it means to be a chemical company, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world and a fossil free future through the power of chemistry. The company is based in Berkeley, California. | $11M / Seed / Aug 16, 2019 | ||
| Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design. | $11M / Seed / Aug 16, 2019 | ||
| See all 28 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Elementum Ventures invest in?
Elementum Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Elementum Ventures invest in?
Elementum Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$11M at Seed, $1.4M–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $25M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Elementum Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Elementum Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Elementum Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Elementum Ventures?
The team at Elementum Ventures includes Ben Chelf (Founding Partner), Ben Patterson (General Partner) and Kurt Keilhacker (Founding Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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