# Lanza Tech Ventures

> Lanza Tech Ventures is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Software. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lanatechventures
- Website: http://lanzatechventures.com

Lanza Tech Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early-stage companies. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 5 | 31% |
| Software | 4 | 25% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |
| Internet of Things | 3 | 19% |
| Big Data | 2 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 31% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 75% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lucio Lanza | Founder, Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucio-lanza |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Approov | Approov provides mobile app security solutions focused on protecting APIs from unauthorized access and abuse. The company offers runtime application self-protection (RASP) capabilities that verify the authenticity of mobile apps and ensure they have not been tampered with or cloned. Its platform integrates with mobile apps to validate that APIrequests originate from genuine, unmodified applications and are not coming from bots, emulators, or compromised devices. Approov also enables dynamic secrets management, ensuring that keys and tokens are not stored statically within apps where they could be extracted. The solution is commonly used in industries with strict data and access controls, including fintech, healthtech, and mobility services. By verifying both the app and device integrity before allowing API access, Approov helps reduce the risk of data breaches and business logic abuse through mobile interfaces. | $6.6M | Series A | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| CargoSense | CargoSense provides data driven logistics to the healthcare industry utilizing a disruptive business model. The company provides a solution that serves as the "black box" for logistics shipments for highly sensitive goods such as pharmaceuticals, food and machinery.The company combines a data and analytics SaaS (Software as aService), iOS-based Apps and the latest Bluetooth sensors delivered as a managed service to its customers. The company uses data and analytics to give insight into everything customer's shipments experience. This goes beyond temperature monitoring and excursions to total visibility of how transportation providers are treating goods. Customers gain compliance with government regulation, lower shipping costs and a reduction in product loss. | $8M | Series A | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| CargoSense | CargoSense provides data driven logistics to the healthcare industry utilizing a disruptive business model. The company provides a solution that serves as the "black box" for logistics shipments for highly sensitive goods such as pharmaceuticals, food and machinery.The company combines a data and analytics SaaS (Software as aService), iOS-based Apps and the latest Bluetooth sensors delivered as a managed service to its customers. The company uses data and analytics to give insight into everything customer's shipments experience. This goes beyond temperature monitoring and excursions to total visibility of how transportation providers are treating goods. Customers gain compliance with government regulation, lower shipping costs and a reduction in product loss. | $8M | Series A | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| Efabless | efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry.The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centricinnovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners. | $6.3M | Series A | Oct 10, 2023 |  |
| Nextech Batteries | Nextech Batteries offers energy & safety, development, lithium-sulfur batteries, OEMs, and manufacturing services. |  |  | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Bloomlife | Bloomlife is an award winning women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We are redefining the way maternal care is delivered by combining connected devices with cloud based data analytics to improve access to care, empower women, and provide clinicians with information to moreeffectively screen and manage pregnancy complications. Our goal is to become the leading provider of remote care for expectant women globally. Bloomlife’s approach to managing high risk pregnancies allows obstetricians to more easily screen maternal and fetal risk, educate the patient, and quickly access high risk specialists regardless of a patient’s geography. Our solution represents a marked shift from the way high risk pregnancies have been historically assessed using frequent in person appointments, paper logs, and long referral times. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| Palma Ceia SemiDesign | Palma Ceia SemiDesign operates as a fabless semiconductor company. The Company offers wireless chips, modules, systems, and Internet protocol (IP) for the emerging Internet of things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), and cellular markets. Palma Ceia SemiDesign serves customers in the States of California and Texas.ns, | $1.5M | Series B | Mar 13, 2018 |  |
| CareLoop | CareLoop is an online platform that provides communication and collaboration with patients. |  |  | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Bloomlife | Bloomlife is an award winning women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We are redefining the way maternal care is delivered by combining connected devices with cloud based data analytics to improve access to care, empower women, and provide clinicians with information to moreeffectively screen and manage pregnancy complications. Our goal is to become the leading provider of remote care for expectant women globally. Bloomlife’s approach to managing high risk pregnancies allows obstetricians to more easily screen maternal and fetal risk, educate the patient, and quickly access high risk specialists regardless of a patient’s geography. Our solution represents a marked shift from the way high risk pregnancies have been historically assessed using frequent in person appointments, paper logs, and long referral times. | $4M | Seed | Aug 15, 2016 |  |
| Adapt | Adapt utilizes wireless communications technology for large-scale Industrial IoT deployments. Its chips and systems deliver data more reliably, securely, over longer distances, and more cost-effectively than any other electronic data transmission available today. The company is headquartered in Campbell, California. |  |  | Jan 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Merck Global Health Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merck-global-health-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pallet Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pallet-alliance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SmoothBrain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smoothbrain) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Xilinx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xilinx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Act One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Lanza Tech Ventures invest in?

Lanza Tech Ventures invests primarily in Semiconductor, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Lanza Tech Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Lanza Tech Ventures?

The team at Lanza Tech Ventures includes Lucio Lanza (Founder, Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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