Driving Forces
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Driving Forces is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. PowerPlay Capital is an early-stage VC firm funding technology to future-proof the world around us. We believe automation delivers core value by improving productivity for all parts of the economy; from factories to offices.We partner with revolutionary teams solving epic problems and building technology that will power the world around us. Webelieve that sustainability, scalable infrastructure and protocols, automated workflows, intelligent collaboration and autonomous systems are the key themes to power economic and evironmental mobility. We are a team of founder-centric investors, as we are built by founders for founders. We have years of experience building high-growth startups, launching transformational products, and a world-class track record of investments.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Driving Forces invests in
Stages Driving Forces invests in
Countries Driving Forces invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$6.5M
- Series A
- $6M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (21%)
- Hardware 2 (14%)
- Robotics 2 (14%)
- E-Commerce 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (57%)
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Secondary Market 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 12 (86%)
- Mexico 1 (7%)
- Colombia 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| UpdateAI develops artificial intelligence for detecting follow-ups and next steps on customer calls. They help capture and cultivate the key information needed to prevent churn, grow revenues, and build institutional knowledge. | $2.3M / Seed / May 31, 2023 | ||
| Figure is an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots to address labor shortages and reduce the number of workers in unsafe jobs. It also develops commercially viable autonomous humanoid robots that lend support across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail. | $70M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| Rewind is a search engine macOS app that enables users to record, store and rewind their work at anytime. | $17.9M / Series A / May 11, 2023 | ||
| Limitless AI develops a wearable-enabled personal AI assistant system that helps individuals capture, recall, and act on information from everyday conversations and activities. The company’s main offering is a wearable device called the “Pendant,” which records spoken conversations, meetings, or thoughts and logs them securely. Through its cloudservice and apps, Limitless AI transforms those audio logs into structured outputs: automatic summaries, to-do lists, reminders, and searchable lifelogs, enabling users to revisit what was said, who said it, and when.Limitless AI supports a natural-language query interface and also incorporates features such as speaker recognition, automatic tagging/bookmarking of important moments, and integration with calendar or task-management tools to streamline follow-ups. It combines wearable hardware, cloud-based AI processing, and personal productivity tools to offer a continuous memory augmentation and organization platform that captures life’s conversations and converts them into structured, actionable insight. | $17.9M / Series A / May 11, 2023 | ||
| Andromeda Surgical is a developer of autonomous robots intended to make surgery more consistent, error-free, and efficient. | Seed / Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Climate is humanity’s gnarliest problem, and we believe every charger has to be part of the solution. With our data-driven insights, we help organizations envision and build tomorrow’s vital infrastructure. Stable is a venture-backed company where intellectual rigor meets automotive industry expertise, and passionate people with practicalexperience are clearing the way to a fully-electric future. | $14M / Series A / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains. | $6.5M / Seed / Sep 12, 2022 | ||
| Rain AI is a semiconductor company specializing in developing energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Rain AI focuses on creating neuromorphic chips inspired by the human brain's architecture. The company's hardware is designed to be more energy-efficient than traditional AI processors, addressing thegrowing demand for sustainable computing solutions. Rain AI's technology is adaptable across various AI applications, from data centers to edge devices, facilitating widespread adoption. | $25M / Series A / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo). | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusablelaunch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9.Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California. | $755M / Secondary Market / Oct 08, 2021 | ||
| See all 14 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Driving Forces invest in?
Driving Forces invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Hardware startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Driving Forces invest in?
Driving Forces typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$6.5M at Seed and $6M–$70M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Driving Forces's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Driving Forces took part in.
When did Driving Forces last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Driving Forces closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 14 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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