# Massachusetts Institute of Technology

> Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=18495
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MIT
- Website: http://web.mit.edu/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITnews

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs.Degrees earned at MIT include bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate.Students from MIT are regularly named Fulbright Fellows, Marshall Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, Truman Scholars, and Gates Scholars.The faculty of MIT has won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize, Medal of Science, John Bates Clark Medal, Fields Medal, PECASE awards, MacArthur ’genius’ grants, and more. Many faculty members are of the AAAS, IEEE, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and other prestigious societies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 20% |
| Health Care | 5 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 17% |
| AgTech | 3 | 10% |
| Software | 3 | 10% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 11 | 37% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 4 | 13% |
| Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 50% |
| India | 3 | 10% |
| Kenya | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Chile | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniela Rus | Professor of EECS | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniela-rus |
| David DesJardins | Member of the Corporation | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-desjardins |
| James DiCarlo | Head, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-dicarlo |
| Mick Mountz | Dean's Advisory Committee, School of Engineering | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mick-mountz |
| Paula T. Hammond | Head, Department of Chemical Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paula-t-hammond |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bedrock Robotics | Bedrock Robotics delivers enhanced autonomy to the built environment, allowing the construction sector to build at the rate that today's society requires. | $270M | Series B | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Excelsior Sciences | Excelsior Sciences develops a chemistry and AI platform for discovering and manufacturing small-molecule compounds. It uses a proprietary “smart bloccs” system, which consists of modular, machine-ready chemical building blocks, to convert small-molecule innovation into an iterative, automation-friendly workflow. Through this platform, Excelsiorenables closed-loop cycles of AI-guided synthesis, testing, and optimisation that link early-stage discovery to scalable manufacturing. The company supports projects across pharmaceuticals, materials science, and other sectors that rely on small molecules. Excelsior also maintains an internal pipeline of therapeutic candidates while working with partners to deploy its chemistry platform broadly. | $70M | Series A | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Medi Assist | Medi Assist offers a range of wellness programs and value-added services to corporate employees and individuals along with health benefits administration services including cashless claims management, reimbursements, pharmacy benefits, planned hospitalization, and more.With more than 21 years of experience in the healthcare sector, we are trustedby over 7,600 corporates across the country. Its robust technology and industry expertise followed by excellent service delivery models to retail and corporate policyholders make us one of the leaders of the wellness sector in the country. | $22.3M | Post-IPO Equity | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| Cypher Games | Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games for users and players. The company focuses on the next generation mobile puzzle games. It aims to shape the future of mobile gaming together with its colleagues, investors, and thought partners. | $30M | Series A | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Burger King India | Burger King India operates a fast-food hamburger chain in India. | $58.3M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Aditya Birla Capital | Aditya Birla Capital (ABCL), the financial services arm of the Aditya Birla Group. | $365.4M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 30, 2023 |  |
| Gaia AI | Gaia AI is an MIT spinout applying similar perception AI as to what the team has built for autonomous vehicles, but built from the ground up for forestry management (demo of our data and AI: bit.ly/gaia-ai). We use sensors and perception AI to modernize the data that we have to work with for managing forests for the timber and loggingindustry, while reducing frictions towards evaluating all of the values of forests in forestry management decisions, including carbon projects, ecosystem services (for supporting local biodiversity), and wildfire risk. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Everest Industries | Everest Industries offers building products for roofing, ceiling, wall, flooring, and cladding solutions and also manufactures pre-engineered steel buildings for industrial, commercial, and residential applications. is a building solutions provider. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Sanguis | Sanguis is a blood count monitoring device to measure hemoglobin, platelet, and neutrophil levels. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. | $19.2K | Grant | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Pendulum Systems | Pendulum Systems is an AI company that builds software with agnostic solutions for geolocation. It runs on a device and requires no new hardware, connectivity, or access to GPS. It is built to protect the warfighter. It specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, geolocation, and embedded software. | $11M | Seed | May 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Qualcomm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qualcomm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [238 Plan Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/238-plan-associates) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Harvard University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harvard-university) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Illinois Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illinois-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Massachusetts Institute of Technology invest in?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Health Care and Machine Learning startups, most often at Grant and Post-IPO Equity stage. Most of the 30 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

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### Who are the partners at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

The team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology includes Daniela Rus (Professor of EECS), David DesJardins (Member of the Corporation) and James DiCarlo (Head, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences), among 48 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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