# Fusion Fund

> Fusion Fund is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 149 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 149
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Nov 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusion-fund/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FusionFundVC
- Website: http://fusionfund.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fusionfund/

Fusion Fund is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Fusion Fund supports early-stage entrepreneurs who are looking to build globally disruptive companies using innovative technologies to drive systemic change.They are entering the next wave of technological advancement and foundational innovation is required to enable massive growth. With Fusion Fund’s technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds,we seek to support entrepreneurs who are building companies with strong technical barriers and advantages in their business models.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$11M |
| Series A | $6.8M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 19% |
| Software | 23 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 15 | 10% |
| Health Care | 14 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 9% |

134 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 58 | 39% |
| Series A | 28 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 11% |
| Series B | 5 | 3% |
| Series C | 3 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 80 | 54% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blake Pennington | Senior Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-pennington-ac21 |
| Kevin Zhang | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-zhang-3819 |
| Lu Zhang | Founder & Managing Partner | 74 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lu-zhang |
| Vicky O’Hara | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vicky-o-hara-c148 |
| Zhenan Bao | Advisory Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zhenan-bao-39d0 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sancho | Sancho is an automation startup developing autonomous mobile manipulators to streamline physical workflows and factory operations. | $7M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Subtle Medical | Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose. | $33M | Series C | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Scout Space | Scout Space develops in-space sensing systems and autonomy software designed to improve satellite awareness and orbital safety. The company builds optical and infrared sensor payloads that allow spacecraft to detect, observe, and track objects and activities in different orbital environments. It also creates software platforms for onboard dataprocessing and autonomous decision-making, enabling satellites to analyze surroundings without relying solely on ground control. Its technology is applied in space domain awareness, mission planning, collision avoidance, and spacecraft inspection use cases.Scout Space further works on edge computing systems that support real-time interpretation of sensor data directly in orbit. The company collaborates with government and commercial partners to deploy its hardware and software in operational satellite missions and demonstration programs. | $18M | Series A | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Eridu | Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI. | $200M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Völur | Völur is an AI-based technology company that optimizes the cutting and processing of sustainable meat. This technology helps meat producers create value by getting the most out of every animal which reduces the need for animals, increases yields, and improves demand satisfaction while reducing inventory levels. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| CVector | CVector connects live control data from industrial sites to dynamic market signals, allowing AI-powered energy techno-economic models, real-time optimization, and virtual operators to enable disruptive operational and commercial decisions. | $5M | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Zeroport | Zeroport develops hardware based secure remote access solutions that isolate networks. | $10M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| AgileRL | AgileRL is building an enterprise-grade reinforcement learning operations (RLOps) platform and a state-of-the-art open-source framework to eliminate these barriers to entry. Our framework has already achieved 10x faster training and hyperparameter optimisation than leading RL libraries. Our RLOps platform, built on top of our open-source framework,is focused on four key areas - simulation, training, deployment and monitoring. | $5.4M | Seed | Jan 07, 2026 |  |
| Autonomous Technologies Group | Autonomous is an AI-powered fintech company that helps users manage investments and financial decisions independently. | $15M | Pre-Seed | Jan 07, 2026 |  |
| Medra AI | Medra AI automates repetitive wetlab tasks so scientists can collect data and run the experiments needed to make scientific discoveries | $52M | Series A | Dec 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 149 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Balerion Space Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balerion-space-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Dolby Family Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dolby-family-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Fitz Gate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fitzrandolph-gateway) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fusion Fund invest in?

Fusion Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 149 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 Fusion Fund's check size?

Fusion Fund typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$11M at Seed and $6.8M–$50M 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 Fusion Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Fusion Fund?

Public channels for Fusion Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Fusion Fund?

The team at Fusion Fund includes Blake Pennington (Senior Associate), Kevin Zhang (Associate) and Lu Zhang (Founder & Managing Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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