# Engineering Capital

> Engineering Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 85 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 85
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/10698321
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/ashmeetsidana
- Website: http://www.engineeringcapital.com/

Engineering Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Engineering Capital partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights: they boldly invest before traditional venture firms are willing. They lead and anchor seed rounds in companies defining new categories with the ambition to shape the future of information technology.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 13% |
| SaaS | 7 | 8% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 7 | 8% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 38% |
| Series A | 20 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 13% |
| Series B | 11 | 13% |
| Series C | 3 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 47 | 55% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adina Luo | VC | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adina-luo |
| Ashmeet Sidana | Founder, Chief Engineer and Managing Partner | 57 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashmeet-sidana-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TidalWave | Tidalwave.ai is a New York–based mortgage technology startup building agentic AI software for lenders and borrowers. Its platform automates parts of mortgage origination, including document review, data extraction, borrower communication, underwriting support, and income/asset verification. It integrates with systems such as Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac, as well as verification providers like Plaid. | $22M | Series A | Nov 14, 2025 |  |
| WideField Security | WideField Security is a seed-stage cybesecurity startup. Backed by leading seed investors like Engineering Capital, WideField aims to solve pressing challenges in enterprise identity security. | $11.3M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| CodeRabbit | CodeRabbit is an artificial intelligence company that offers detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and reviews within lines of code. | $60M | Series B | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Kognitos | Kognitos is in stealth mode. | $25M | Series B | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Hawcx | Hawcx is the passwordless authentication platform that provides a simple yet powerful approach to digital identity security. Hawcx leverages decentralized fingerprinting and multi-step authentication to work across any device, platform, cloud platform and operating system. Unlike traditional password-based authentication or other MFA methods, Hawcxis the industry’s first and only solution that does not store any user sensitive information including the passwords and private keys anywhere in their systems. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Auditoria.AI | Auditoria is a provider of AI-driven automation solutions for Finance teams, based in Santa Clara, California, and backed by Neotribe Ventures, Engineering Capital and Firebolt Ventures. Its flagship offering, Auditoria SmartFlow Skills, leverages natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to remove friction andrepetition, automate finance back office business processes, and deliver cutting-edge real-time predictive analytics to enterprise Finance and Accounting teams. | $38M | Series B | Feb 24, 2025 |  |
| Evinced | Evinced is a Digital Accessibility Platform built for modern software development teams. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process including design, development, CI/automated testing, QA, and production/compliance monitoring.Built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision, and AIalgorithms, Evinced automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing, and production/compliance monitoring.The company was founded in 2018 and based in Los Altos, California. | $55M | Series C | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Trustero | Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise. | $10.4M | Series A | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Concentric AI | Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates therisk each document poses, and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $45M | Series B | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| CodeRabbit | CodeRabbit is an artificial intelligence company that offers detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and reviews within lines of code. | $16M | Series A | Aug 14, 2024 |  |

10 of 85 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Industry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industry-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Storm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Neotribe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neotribe-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Engineering Capital invest in?

Engineering Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 85 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 Engineering Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Engineering Capital?

The team at Engineering Capital includes Adina Luo (VC) and Ashmeet Sidana (Founder, Chief Engineer and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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