# Experiment Fund

> Experiment Fund is a VC fund in Cambridge backing Software, Analytics and TV. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/experiment-fund/
- Website: http://experimentfund.com/

Experiment Fund is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and Analytics. Experiment Fund was a seed-stage venture fund that will bankroll student start-ups developed and maintained in Cambridge.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |
| TV | 1 | 13% |
| Baby | 1 | 13% |
| Legal | 1 | 13% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AeroVect | AeroVect develops autonomous driving platforms for GSE, enabling efficient, safe, and reliable airside operations at some of the largest passenger and cargo hubs in the world. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 08, 2021 |  |
| AeroVect | AeroVect develops autonomous driving platforms for GSE, enabling efficient, safe, and reliable airside operations at some of the largest passenger and cargo hubs in the world. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Fort Awesome | Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.Fort Awesome has some of the web's best icon sets,so your site has the exact look you need. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| Kensho | Kensho combines natural language search queries, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools for investment professionals. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today—speed, scale, and automation—Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capableof answering complex financial questions posed in plain English.Kensho is a data analytics and machine intelligence company. Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.Founded in the spring of 2013 out of MIT and Harvard, Kensho's senior team members come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and the United States Federal Reserve.They are a diverse and spirited group of engineers, scientists, and financial professionals who are accomplished analytical thinkers and passionate problem solvers. Together, their multi-talented team includes Ph.D. physicists, a three-time International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) world champion, Ph.D. economists, internationally competitive chess players, the author of Quantitative Finance for Physicists, a member of the original Apple iPhone engineering team, and one of the youngest ever entrants to Harvard College (age 15). | $10M | Seed | Mar 12, 2014 |  |
| Ravel Law | Ravel Law is a legal search, analytics, and visualization platform. Ravel enables lawyers to find, contextualize, and interpret information that turns legal data into legal insights. Ravel's array of powerful tools – which include data-driven, interactive visualizations and analytics – transforms how lawyers understand the law and prepare forlitigation. In today's global and increasingly digital world, Ravel empowers attorneys to benefit from this huge influx of information and find value in it.In 2012, Ravel spun out of Stanford University's Law School, Computer Science Department, and d.school, with the support of CodeX (Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics). | $8.1M | Series A | Feb 03, 2014 |  |
| Rest Devices | Rest is leading the market in connected devices for the nursery. Its first product, Mimo, is the first in-market smart wearable baby monitor, pushing data on respiration, body position, skin temperature, audio, and activity level real-time to a parent’s smartphone. The Mimo is a onesie-based product, so integrates simply and naturally into a baby’ssleeptime routine.Fundamentally, they believe in building smart, reliable, easy-to-use products that simplify parents’ lives. They’ve focused on setting high standards not only in terms of product and technical responsiveness, but also in how they engage with their users and the parenting community on the whole. And they think they’re busting through those bars. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 21, 2013 |  |
| Philo | Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide. It was inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television. Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market as a laboratory for creating a next-generation TV platform. Philo has previously received investment fromNew Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rho Ventures, Xfund, Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, WME, and CBC New Media Group. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, Massachusettes. | $6.3M | Series A | Jul 10, 2013 |  |
| Philo | Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide. It was inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television. Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market as a laboratory for creating a next-generation TV platform. Philo has previously received investment fromNew Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rho Ventures, Xfund, Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, WME, and CBC New Media Group. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, Massachusettes. | $1M | Seed | Sep 20, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Experiment Fund invest in?

Experiment Fund invests primarily in Software, Analytics and TV startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Experiment Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Experiment Fund closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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