# Intel

> Intel is a VC fund in Santa Clara backing Software and Internet. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intel-corporation
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/intel
- Website: http://www.intel.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Intel

Intel is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Software and Internet. Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Intel. Shizune tracks 30 team members at Intel. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/intel?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Series B | $5.6M–$84M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 28 | 33% |
| Internet | 16 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 8 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 9% |

151 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 26 | 30% |
| Series B | 14 | 16% |
| Seed | 6 | 7% |
| Series C | 6 | 7% |
| Series D | 6 | 7% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 49 | 57% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 6% |
| India | 3 | 3% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brent Young | Vice President, Intel Corporation; Managing Director, China Corporate Strategy Office | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-young-5137 |
| Cristina Rodriguez | Vice President, General Manager, Network & Edge Group | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-rodriguez-5528 |
| Lance Weaver | Vice President and General Manager, Data Center & Cloud Strategy, Intel Data Platforms Group | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-weaver-6a6a |
| Lip-Bu Tan | Chief Executive Officer | 99 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lip-bu-tan |
| Nick McKeown | SVP and GM of Network and Edge Group | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-mckeown |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fab 34 JV | Fab 34 is a key semiconductor manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland, central to Intel’s foundry and AI chip strategy. | $14.2B | Secondary Market | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| MercuryAi | Tired and frustrated with having to pay for the endless sea of artificial intelligence apps catering to different needs? Finding it hard to catch up with this fast paced world where AI has become a necessity? Mercury Ai assistant is here to become your friend in need. At the tap of a finger, discover the world of unlimited possibilities with our AIchatbot API that provides impeccable and precise information through an amalgamation of 20+ LLM models like Gemini API, Claude 3.5 API, Llama 3.1, GPT-4o API etc. With leading technology partners like Google, Microsoft, Intel, Discord, Amazon and Nvidia, Mercury Ai also provides custom Ai agents for customer support, content creation and business automation through a single subscription at a fraction of the original cost. | $375K | Grant | May 07, 2025 |  |
| DS TECHNO | DS TECHNO is a core semiconductor machine part manufacturer. It designs and fabricates consumable components utilized in semiconductor manufacturing equipment, including silicon carbide (SiC), silicon (Si), and quartz. It provides materials and parts to leading global semiconductor firms. Additionally, the company focuses on ESG management,addressing environmental and energy challenges while striving to create a sustainable future. | $13M | Corporate Round | Jul 08, 2024 |  |
| Euler Digital | Brands and Services: Bezoku; AI Forum. Learn more about Bezoku here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/46Tm102BjfV3B7YTngwg6F?si=IbKt_CeXS5CRyLzm8li8RQ |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 22, 2024 |  |
| bezoku | Bezoku is Indigenous and low resource language infrastructure. We focus exclusively on morphologically complex languages.The “M-Pesa effect” showed that transformational change happens fast when better alternatives exist. M-Pesa drove financial inclusion in Kenya from 26% to 84%. The same quantum leap is being built for linguistic inclusion.Bezoku is a scalable, privacy preserving infrastructure for hundreds of low resource and indigenous languages.We fund using Indigenous capital, aligning long-term value with underserved communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 22, 2024 |  |
| inQ Technologies | inQ is driven by the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize productivity at both the individual and corporate level. We aim to streamline work processes and enhance efficiency by integrating clever AI into various tools such as emailers, data organizers, calendars, and more. Our mission is to empower individuals andorganizations to achieve their full potential by harnessing the power of AI to automate tasks, generate personalized insights, and optimize workflows just like humans can. We believe that by leveraging this developing technology, we can unlock new levels of productivity and drive innovation in the digital age. | $452.5K | Grant | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Stability AI | Stability AI is an artificial intelligence-driven visual art startup that designs and implements open AI tools. The company focuses on creating open models for various media types, including image, video, 3D, and audio, with applications also targeting enterprise-level needs. Stability AI fosters a vibrant community involving experts and partnersworldwide, enhancing collaboration in developing AI tools. | $50M | Convertible Note | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Twelve Labs | TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $10M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Hugging Face | Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City. | $235M | Series D | Aug 23, 2023 |  |
| Aleph Alpha | Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges. |  | Series B | Jun 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Intel invest in?

Intel invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 86 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 Intel's check size?

Intel typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed and $5.6M–$84M 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 Intel participates in.

### How do I contact Intel?

Public channels for Intel 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 Intel?

The team at Intel includes Brent Young (Vice President, Intel Corporation; Managing Director, China Corporate Strategy Office), Cristina Rodriguez (Vice President, General Manager, Network & Edge Group) and Lance Weaver (Vice President and General Manager, Data Center & Cloud Strategy, Intel Data Platforms Group), among 30 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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