# Lewis Pinault

> Lewis Pinault is a Series A investor at Airbus Ventures backing Software and Machine Learning. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Airbus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airbus-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewispinault/

Lewis Pinault is a Series A investor at Airbus Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Machine Learning. Lewis Pinault - Partner @ Airbus Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Information Services | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 56% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Japan | 2 | 22% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HelicitySpace | ​HelicitySpace develops critical propulsion and power technology necessary for enabling humanity's expansion into the solar system. Its Helicity Drive technology is a scalable pulsed fusion concept - from fusion-augmented electric propulsion to fully ignited reactors --based on magnetic reconnection, plasma plectonemes, and peristalticmagnetic compression. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $5M | Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Telexistence | TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible. | $3.3B | Series B | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| Transcelestial Technologies | Transcelestial is developing the fastest, long-distance, point-to-point wireless communication network possible. It will be delivered as a space data network for terrestrial and satellite applications, which will use lasers to transfer data at up to 1000x faster than what is currently available. The network will be difficult to jam and will notneed any spectrum pre-allocation or regulation. | $10M | Series A | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Koniku | Koniku has built technology that allows a computer to smell. Essentially we have built a smell cyborg that can detect disease in human breath and other bodily fluids. We wish to turn every bathroom in the world into a data centre that captures VOC's or chemical data. This data, combined with machine learning, can predict disease outcomesbefore disease manifests. The Konikore is a smell processor, with applications in healthcare, security, industrial monitoring, food and more. | $37M | Series A | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| Q-CTRL | Q-CTRL is a global pioneer with unmatched commercial traction in the emerging quantum technology industry - a sector poised to transform everything from finance and pharma through to logistics and defense.Q-CTRL is a category defining business leading the development of AI-powered quantum infrastructure software, delivering globally uniquetechnology to accelerate the pathway to the world's first useful quantum computers. This same foundational technology also underpins Q-CTRL’s development of novel “software-defined” quantum sensors for defense and intelligence.Q-CTRL has assembled the world’s foremost team of expert quantum-control engineers, providing solutions to global quantum technology leaders including Universities, National Labs, and quantum technology industry partners. In May 2023, IBM Quantum announced that Q-CTRL's quantum infrastructure software would be natively embedded in its quantum computing fleet, and the team recently announced a partnership with Transport for NSW - delivering its enterprise infrastructure software to transport data scientists exploring quantum computing. In parallel, in July 2023 the Australian Department of Defence announced Q-CTRL's leading role delivering quantum-assured navigation to AUKUS allies.Q-CTRL is a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, and is a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, and a co-chair of the Australian Quantum Alliance within the Tech Council of Australia. Q-CTRL was selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2023, one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Tech Companies by the Financial Review, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, Wired, Gizmodo, and more. | $25M | Series B | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Infostellar | Infostellar make space communications infrastructure, & are now developing our cloud-based satellite antenna sharing platform, StellarStation. By lowering costs and increasing transmission time, Infostellar empowers satellite operators to improve the quality of their service and expand potential business. | $3.5M | Convertible Note | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Atlas AI | Atlas AI's mission is to monitor the drivers of economic development across the emerging markets so that financial capital can advance societal well-being.  We bring together world class machine learning talent and deep emerging market domain experience to develop software that allows customers to more effectively allocate plan and monitorhigh stakes investments and development programs, including infrastructure development initiatives and market expansion programs. Our proprietary models generate reliable socioeconomic estimates including land under cultivation, staple crop productivity, household asset wealth and consumption, and access to reliable power and transportation infrastructure.  The company is currently constructing most of these measures for the entirety of Sub-Saharan Africa, but the models we develop are designed to scale globally. | $7M | Series A | Apr 14, 2020 |  |
| Telexistence | TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible. | $283.5M | Series A | Nov 29, 2018 |  |
| Infostellar | Infostellar make space communications infrastructure, & are now developing our cloud-based satellite antenna sharing platform, StellarStation. By lowering costs and increasing transmission time, Infostellar empowers satellite operators to improve the quality of their service and expand potential business. | $7.3M | Series A | Sep 13, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KDDI Open Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kddi-open-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sony Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sony-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ARVO VENTURE CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arvo-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CAP Vista](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cap-vista) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Airbus Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Airbus Ventures invests in autonomous mobility, electrification, low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, security, and beyond. AV continuously fosters close and trusted relationships with other leading venture firms, actively offering hands-on expertise to our portfolio companies. Weproudly leverage the richly dense networks of our mothership Airbus and its supply chain, as well as the wider ecosystem of our Limited Partners. We work with multiple LPs – including Airbus SE, Development Bank of Japan Inc., Mitsubishi HC Capital, Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., and McKinley Capital – to better enable our entrepreneurs to grow and succeed.

5 contacts available at Airbus Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lewis Pinault | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lewis-pinault |
| Matthieu Repellin | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthieu-repellin |
| Claas Carsten Kohl | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claas-carsten-kohl |
| Nicole Conner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-conner |
| Phillip Oung | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phillip-oung |

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## FAQ

### What does Lewis Pinault invest in?

Lewis Pinault invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Lewis Pinault last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lewis Pinault closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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