# Essential Capital

> Essential Capital is a VC fund in New York backing Biotechnology and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/essentialcap/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://essential.capital/

Essential Capital is a global venture investor and an early backer of industry-transforming businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Essential Capital. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Essential Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/essential-404e?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $17M–$20M |
| Series B | $41M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 24% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |
| Mining | 2 | 12% |
| Health Care | 2 | 12% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 12% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 12% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 47% |
| Israel | 2 | 12% |
| Germany | 2 | 12% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ron Zori | General Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-zori |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elvy | Geofy AI platform provides home owners control over their energy needs with subscription of solar, heat pump and battery system. | $7.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Transition Metal Solutions | Transition Biomining is a metal ore mining technology company that offers data driven solutions for copper extraction and mining. | $6M | Seed | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Endolith | Endolith is a biotech company transforming sustainable mining by leveraging microbes, synthetic biology, and cloud computing to extract more critical minerals like copper from low-grade ores. Working with the many of the leading mining companies, Endolith is advancing its innovative technology to commercial scale. Recognized as a finalist in theBHP Unearthed BioMetals cohort and a member of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, Endolith is driving the future of mining with sustainable, efficient, and responsible solutions for the clean energy transition. | $16.5M | Series A | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Elvy | Geofy AI platform provides home owners control over their energy needs with subscription of solar, heat pump and battery system. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Voyantis | Voyantis is a provider of an AI-driven growth platform for customer acquisition and lifecycle optimization. The company allows businesses to acquire, retain, and nurture high-value customers with precision and efficiency. It integrates predictive and prescriptive AI to eliminate the guesswork traditionally involved in assessing a customer’spotential value and delivers the user automated actions on the next steps and execution timing. | $41M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Cambrium | Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks. Our platform combines synthetic biology, machine learning and lab automation to create high-performance materials at scale.We fundamentally believe that the ability to align economic and environmental incentives makes biologythe most important manufacturing technology of the 21st century. We are accelerating a Cambrian explosion of biomaterials to address the world’s most pressing problems. |  | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Terra One | Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| Magnus Metal | MagnusMetal embarks traditional casting into the 21st century with the patent-pending digital casting. | $74M | Series B | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Voyantis | Voyantis is a provider of an AI-driven growth platform for customer acquisition and lifecycle optimization. The company allows businesses to acquire, retain, and nurture high-value customers with precision and efficiency. It integrates predictive and prescriptive AI to eliminate the guesswork traditionally involved in assessing a customer’spotential value and delivers the user automated actions on the next steps and execution timing. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Cambrium | Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks. Our platform combines synthetic biology, machine learning and lab automation to create high-performance materials at scale.We fundamentally believe that the ability to align economic and environmental incentives makes biologythe most important manufacturing technology of the 21st century. We are accelerating a Cambrian explosion of biomaterials to address the world’s most pressing problems. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2023 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Essential Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essential-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [McWin Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcwin) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Possible Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/possible-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Essential Capital invest in?

Essential Capital invests primarily in Biotechnology, SaaS and Mining startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 17 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 Essential Capital's check size?

Essential Capital typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $17M–$20M at Series A and $41M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Essential Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Essential Capital?

Public channels for Essential Capital include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Essential Capital?

The team at Essential Capital includes Ron Zori (General 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 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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