# Newchip Accelerator

> Newchip Accelerator is a VC fund backing Software. See 1,126 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 1,126
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newchip/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/newchipco
- Website: https://newchip.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newchipco

Newchip Accelerator is a VC fund in Austin focused on Software and Information Technology. Newchip is a global remote startup accelerator. Newchip Accelerator, 1401 Lavaca St. PMB 40433, Austin, TX, 78701, Email: investing@newchip.com

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 34 | 3% |
| Information Technology | 27 | 2% |
| Health Care | 17 | 2% |
| E-Commerce | 16 | 1% |
| SaaS | 13 | 1% |

230 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 125 | 11% |
| Seed | 14 | 1% |
| Pre-Seed | 14 | 1% |
| Series A | 6 | 1% |
| Grant | 1 | 0% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 79 | 7% |
| Canada | 16 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 1% |
| Australia | 7 | 1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 0% |

31 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Ryan | Founder & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-rafols |
| Drew Ryder | Start-Up Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-ryder |
| Gilad Berenstein | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilad-berenstein |
| Jag Setlur | Business Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jag-setlur |
| Jamil Zachary Sweis | Startup Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamil-zachary-sweis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dianomix | Bright Autonomy is developing an AI powered human-in-the-loop autonomy platform that functions as an operating system for autonomous commercial equipment. The platform enables fleet orchestration, remote supervision, and task coordination across multiple machines, allowing a single operator to manage and supervise large fleets in real time. Byretrofitting existing commercial equipment and integrating with emerging autonomous systems, Bright Autonomy accelerates the adoption of autonomy without requiring entirely new machines.The company’s initial market focus is turf and land management, where labor shortages and rising operating costs create strong demand for automation. Bright Autonomy’s platform approach transforms isolated autonomous machines into coordinated operations, improving productivity, extending operating hours, and enabling scalable deployment of autonomy across industries. | $758.2K | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| SpeedyDD | SpeedyDD is a cloud-based KYB (Know Your Business) compliance and due diligence platform that helps regulated businesses automate their entire client onboarding and compliance lifecycle. Built for Corporate Service Providers (CSPs), Payment Service Providers (PSPs), Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), and iGaming operators, SpeedyDD replacesfragmented, manual compliance workflows with a single ISO 27001-certified environment. The platform covers automated client onboarding with white-label embeddable forms, centralized document management with expiry tracking and automated renewal workflows, real-time PEP, sanctions, and adverse media screening, KYB verification against company registries, KYC person verification for directors and UBOs, risk profiling with customizable weighted questionnaires, immutable audit trails, and company structure visualization. SpeedyDD has onboarded 4,000+ clients, manages 130,000+ compliance documents, and has completed 1,500+ screening checks. Customers include Hero Gaming and Rhino Entertainment (Malta iGaming operators) and Paydirection (payments). The platform is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and includes a Chrome extension for automated form filling. SpeedyDD is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, supporting AI-driven innovation in the RegTech space. | $1.5M | Seed | May 16, 2025 |  |
| Traveln.ai | Traveln.ai is an AI-powered trip planning and booking engine designed to help travel businesses—such as airlines, OTAs, DMOs, and tour operators—generate personalized, bookable itineraries at scale.Our platform uses a proprietary agentic architecture to automate the entire journey creation process, from destination discovery to full trip booking(flights, hotels, activities, transport, insurance, eSIM, and more). Businesses can integrate our engine via APIs or white-label widgets, offering travelers seamless, curated travel experiences tailored to their preferences.After 3 years of R&D, Traveln.ai launched in 2024 and has since shifted from B2C to B2B, now powering integrations with regional leaders from airlines, to OTAs and SuperApps, to regional tourism authorities. We’ve also built a unified AI travel companion that works across WhatsApp, web, and mobile to support multi-channel engagement.Traveln.ai operates as both a technology provider and booking infrastructure layer, offering revenue-sharing or usage-based pricing models. The platform supports multilingual and regional customizations, and is deployable in compliance with national cybersecurity and data localization laws (e.g., NCA in Saudi Arabia).We are currently raising a pre-seed round to accelerate our expansion into the GCC, Europe, and Africa. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Latence Technologies Inc. | LatenceTech offers an AI-based Service Assurance software solution focused on connectivity performance and stable low latency. Low latency is a growing focus from industrial and consumers since several new innovations require seamless and ultra-fast connectivity including GenAI, autonomous cars, collaborative robots, mobile games, etc. Largevariations in latency and throughput make these services unusable or even dangerous. At LatenceTech, we monitor the quality of connectivity in real time, perform diagnostics and use AI and GenIA to offer suggestions to maintain and optimize the required quality & latency. We have our first customers with Orange and Cap Gemini. Our solution is 100% software (container based) and 10x more efficient than SpeedTest and other monitoring tools. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Plain Tiger | Plain Tiger is on a mission to drive sustainable production and consumption globally. We're revolutionising the way Hotels find and buy from sustainable suppliers of consumable products and service providers for energy, water and water efficiency. Suppliers get access to the leading hotels globally. | $100K | Seed | May 03, 2024 |  |
| Carom | Carom is a new social app for professionals. It offers stylish and fun experiences to expand your circle in your city or while traveling. | $547 | Pre-Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| 11Sight | At 11Sight, we are redefining customer interactions with AI-powered conversational agents that handle customer inquiries, book appointments, and close sales without human intervention—24/7, across all channels.Our conversational AI Agents serve as the first point of contact for customer and prospect conversations. They work with their humancounterparts, either resolve the customer requests or escalate them as appropriate. They are built to answer and to ask questions to drive desired outcomes. They reduce costs, increase revenues, and customer satisfaction.We are in production with hundreds of dealers and growing fast.A dealership using 11Sight’s AI Service Assistant reported: ✔ All customer calls handled 24/7 with no wait time, improving customer satisfaction ✔ Appointments and service revenue doubled ✔ Routine tasks fully automated, load on team members significantly reducedWith our existing customers and sales channels, we expect to exceed $2.5M ARR by the end of 2025.11Sight is a Delaware C-Corp founded by two Bay Area veteran entrepreneurs, Aleks Gollu and Farokh Eskafi. They have two positive exits each, one together. We have three patents and a fourth pending. | $3M | Series A | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Wisepath | Wisepath comes in, a scalable, intuitive, and entertaining way to easily measure and train soft skills by using mainstream (commercial off-the-shelf) video games. By training employees and students to better achieve their goals we improve employee retention, productivity, and overall employee satisfaction. The product consists of a B2B SaaSplatform that can, for the first time, accurately measure and train soft skills based on an exclusive methodology that interprets video games data, resulting from more than 5 years of scientific research. We can measure, at the moment, up to 39 soft skills and have analyzed up to 24 commercial video games. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2023 |  |
| Opa! | Mobile Gifting Platform that allows users to send & receive food & drinks from friends | $280K | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2023 |  |
| Studious | Studious Technologies app is an AI-enabled platform that achieves personalized learning. Our solution automates and deploys proven learning processes - Focus, Interleaving, Elaboration, Ritual, and Social Context - to create a personalized exam preparation experience. The founding team's decades-long experience as tutors given us insight intothe inefficiencies and costs associated with in-person exam prep tutoring. | $150K | Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 1,126 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coinvestor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinvestor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creative Destruction Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-destruction-lab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heaventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heaventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Newchip Accelerator invest in?

Newchip Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 1,126 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Newchip Accelerator?

The team at Newchip Accelerator includes Andrew Ryan (Founder & CEO), Drew Ryder (Start-Up Mentor) and Gilad Berenstein (Mentor), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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