Future Labs
VC Fund
New York, United States
Future Labs is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Started as a partnership between NYU and the city of New York to form the first NYC incubator, the Future Labs are a network of four spaces and programs evolved from a traditional incubator and accelerator models. The guiding principle of the Future Labs is to put the needs of each company first, providing for the best possible outcome forparticipant startups. By levering NYU resources to catalyze company success, and working with teams on an individual basis, we have a proven track record in helping companies reach their milestones and achieve scalable and sustainable growth. The Future Labs approach has yielded a $1B graduate portfolio with 13 acquisitions from only 68 total graduate companies.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Future Labs invests in
Stages Future Labs invests in
Countries Future Labs invests in
Contacts
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Arjun Sahgal
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Francisco Dao
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Steven Kuyan
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Craig Wilson
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Mina Salib
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (29%)
- Health Care 3 (21%)
- Medical 2 (14%)
- Analytics 2 (14%)
Stage
- Funding Round 10 (71%)
- Seed 3 (21%)
- Non-equity Assistance 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Arjun Sahgal
Principal- Future Labs A/X Venture Studio
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Principal- Future Labs A/X Venture Studio | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Francisco Dao
Program Manager, AI NexusLab
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Program Manager, AI NexusLab | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Steven Kuyan
Managing Director; Adjunct Professor NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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Managing Director; Adjunct Professor NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Craig Wilson
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Mina Salib
Program Manager
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Program Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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GoodMaps
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GoodMaps creates and maintains 2D and 3D digital maps that provide accurate positioning delighting with a trusted wayfinding experience.Founded in 2019 and based out of Louisville, KY, GoodMaps (previously named Access Explorer) was created by APH with a simple mission: to further the cause of accessible navigation. Realizing that the mission ofuniversal accessible navigation was limited by the lack of indoor digital mapping, the GoodMaps platform and company were born. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2022 | |
Atlantic Quantum
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Atlantic Quantum develops scalable quantum computers to tackle the world’s hardest computational challenges. Founded in 2022, Atlantic Quantum believes that fault-tolerant quantum hardware is the key to making progress in quantum computing. | $9M / Seed / Jul 21, 2022 | |
Forecastr
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Forecastr is an online software that enables founders to forecast their revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers, and get funded. The company allows users to build a custom financial model from their existing data. | $2.5M / Seed / May 17, 2021 | |
ViuHealth
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ViuHealth (formerly DrugViu) combines data from FDA clinical trials, with physician and pharmacist expertise plus demographic relevant crowdsourced reviews to give you and your family trusted medication information. They have intentionally focused on Asian, Black, Latino, and Native American populations because these groups have traditionally beenunderrepresented in medicine starting with clinical trials to measuring outcomes. They strongly believe everyone is important and everyone’s experiences matter. They believe that information is power not just for one’s self but when shared can really change communities. | Dec 09, 2020 | |
GrowSquares
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GrowSquares develops an adaptive, personalized gardening experience intended to cultivate a healthy and fruitful garden. The company's modular garden offers tailored watering, harvesting, mobile application, and troubleshooting recommendations, enabling users to grow a plant indoors.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn,New York. | Dec 09, 2020 | |
Dathic
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Dathic stands for Data and Tech for Communities. At Dathic, we help brands serve authentically the US fastest growing market, Multicultural consumers! Dathic's deep insights and AI-powered analytics solutions enable research, marketing, and sales teams to understand diverse communities at any location in the US and create tailored sales andmarketing strategies to reach their multicultural consumers authentically with the products and services they love. | Dec 09, 2020 | |
Lilu
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Lilu, is a women’s health company building tech-enabled devices to empower new moms. Their first product, the Lilu massage bra, is a pioneering FDA Class device that tackles the notorious inefficiencies of breast pumps, using a patented pneumatic massage technology to mimic a baby’s natural motions, accelerating milk output and alleviating theassociated pain. Lilu’s customers ‘love this bra’ and call the device ‘awesome’ and a ‘breastfeeding savior’. | Dec 09, 2020 | |
Boomy
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Boomy is an AI-powered platform that allows users to create songs instantly. It can also create Releases and distribute them to all major streaming services and digital music retailers worldwide, and earn a share of royalties when your songs are played on networks like Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, and YouTube. | Dec 09, 2020 | |
Ordaos Bio
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Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company. We create customized mini-proteins that help pharma and biotechs around the world deliver safer and more effective life-saving treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods. miniPRO proteins are created and evaluated in silico, and then rigorously tested invitro, which enables us to reliably and repeatedly deliver de novo solutions that meet our client’s stringent requirements at scale, including novelty and probability of clinical success. At Ordaōs, we help birth novel therapies that reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life. | Dec 03, 2020 | |
Steg AI
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StegAI builds watermark SaaS tools for enterprise customers to secure their digital assets against leaks and misuse. | Dec 03, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
Access Ventures
1 deal together
American Printing House for the Blind
1 deal together
Techstars Ventures
1 deal together
Converge
1 deal together
Glasswing Ventures
1 deal together
Huat Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Future Labs invest in?
Future Labs invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Future Labs?
The team at Future Labs includes Arjun Sahgal (Principal- Future Labs A/X Venture Studio), Francisco Dao (Program Manager, AI NexusLab) and Steven Kuyan (Managing Director; Adjunct Professor NYU Tandon School of Engineering). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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