# NEC Orchestrating Future Fund

> NEC Orchestrating Future Fund is a VC fund backing Software, Analytics and Machine Learning. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

NEC Orchestrating Future Fund is a VC fund focused on Software and Analytics. NEC Orchestrating Future Fund operates as a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| Japan | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alpha Vision | Alpha Vision is revolutionizing security by replacing passive surveillance with real-time intelligence and proactive defense. |  | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 | https://alphavision.ai |
| Multitude Insights | Multitude Insights helps law enforcement agencies leverage their unstructured data. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. | $10M | Series A | Feb 27, 2026 | https://www.multitudeinsights.com/ |
| PopID | PopID offers a facial recognition platform that enables users to authenticate identity and process payments through biometric verification. Its core service, PopPay, allows customers to link their facial image to a payment method, facilitating transactions at participating businesses without the need for physical cards or mobile devices. The systemsupports various retail formats, including kiosks, drive-thrus, and counter services, and integrates with loyalty programs to personalize the customer experience. PopID's technology has been adopted by merchants such as Whataburger and Steak 'n Shake, aiming to streamline ordering and checkout processes. The company emphasizes user consent and data security, storing encrypted biometric data and allowing users to opt-in or out at their discretion. PopID has also expanded internationally, partnering with entities like SoftBank's Japan Computer Vision to introduce its services in markets such as Japan. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 03, 2025 | https://www.popid.com/ |
| Rescale | Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $115M | Series D | Apr 07, 2025 | http://www.rescale.com |
| Aetion | Aetion delivers real-world evidence (RWE) and outcomes-based analytics solutions to life sciences companies, payers, and at-risk providers.With its patented rapid-cycle analytics technology, the Aetion Evidence Platform utilizes the everyday clinical and financial interactions of the healthcare system to unlock essential evidence about theeffectiveness and value of medical treatments. Founded by Harvard Medical School faculty members and top big data technologists, Aetion enables payers and providers to collaborate with biopharmaceutical and medical device companies in real-time to develop therapeutic insights and make smart choices in inpatient care. Aetion is based in New York City and backed by investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Flare Capital Partners, Lakestar, Greenspring Associates, Town Hall Ventures, McKesson Ventures, Sanofi Ventures, EDBI, Amgen Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation — JJDC, Inc., UCB, and Horizon Health Services, Inc. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 18, 2025 | https://www.aetion.com |
| SWAT Mobility | SWAT Mobility’s vehicle-routing technology helps companies, transport operators, and government agencies around the world solve complex transportation challenges. We are the first to run high-capacity vehicle pooling services that are both on-demand and dynamically routed. We also have proven results in helping our clients reduce transportationcosts, improve city connectivity, and reduce traffic congestion.Our technology tops the industry's benchmark, Li & Lim, and with our cutting-edge smart mobility optimisation engine, we are future-ready for the world of autonomous vehicles. | $3.8M |  | Apr 17, 2024 | http://swatmobility.com/ |
| PowerX | PowerX brings power transfer technology to life, allowing for greater usage of renewable energy sources. PowerX was founded on March 22, 2021 and is located in Tokyo, Japan. | $18.6M | Series B | Aug 17, 2023 | https://power-x.jp/en |
| Everestlabs.AI | Everest Labs is advancing the waste management industry using modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Computer Vision and Robotics. The company's solutions increase the quality of marketable recyclables and reduces dependency on human labor while enabling top line and bottom line revenue growth forwaste management companies. | $16.1M | Series A | Sep 28, 2022 | http://www.everestlabs.ai |
| SINAI Technologies | SINAI Technologies builds enterprise decarbonization software to monitor, analyze, price, and reduce emissions. The company's tools enable organizations to automate carbon analysis and reporting for their entire operation, transforming the way they interact with their business, value chain, and the environment.Founded in 2017, thecompany's mission is to provide organizations with the technology necessary to build deep decarbonization strategies. | $22M | Series A | Sep 27, 2022 | http://www.sinaitechnologies.com |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Translink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/translink-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Applied Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does NEC Orchestrating Future Fund invest in?

NEC Orchestrating Future Fund invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown 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 NEC Orchestrating Future Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for NEC Orchestrating Future Fund closed in Mar 2026. 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?

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