# Prototype Capital

> Prototype Capital is a VC fund backing Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Jan 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prototype-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PrototypeCap
- Website: http://prototype.capital
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prototypecapital

Prototype Capital is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Prototype Capital is on a mission to help young ambitious founders around the country build lasting 100-year businesses around products that change the status quo by 10x. www.prototype.capital

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $130k–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 4 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| Health Care | 3 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| Gaming | 2 | 9% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 74% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 65% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Austin Kaidi | Biotech/Healthcare Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-kaidi |
| Greg Schwartz | Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-schwartz-05e9 |
| Jared Schwartzentruber | Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-schwartzentruber |
| Luis Berga | Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-berga |
| Marshall Mosher | Founder Venture Scout | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marshall-mosher |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nilo | Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars. | $4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Sunrise Robotics | Sunrise Robotics creates a virtual replica of the workstation and trains the robot’s integrated AI brain within this simulation. | $8.5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2025 |  |
| sensmore | Sensmore develops embodied physical AI and VLAM systems for use in heavy machinery. Its technologies are applied in sectors such as mining, construction, and related industries. The company focuses on enabling autonomous operations by integrating AI with machinery to support decision-making and navigation in complex environments. It designs itssystems to function under conditions where traditional automation methods may be limited. These solutions contribute to operational efficiency and reduce reliance on manual control. | $7.3M |  | May 20, 2025 |  |
| skignz | skignz brings Precise Location Augmented Reality to the People, Places, and Things you love. Simple. Fun. Useful. If you are looking at a using skignz commercially through our API please get in touch. Alternately we offer a Free App | $130K | Seed | Nov 01, 2019 |  |
| Carry | Carry is an always-available travel agent built on Facebook Messenger, SMS, Slack, and email. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 11, 2019 |  |
| AON3D | AON3D is a manufacturer of high-temperature industrial 3D printers.The AON-M2, its flagship 3D printer, is a direct response to demands for hotter print conditions and the careful thermal control needed for producing strong and dimensionally stable parts from advanced materials. It offers an open filament platform that empowers users to choosethe right materials for their project and slash costs by avoiding expensive proprietary materials and license fees.Founders Andrew Walker, Randeep Singh, and Kevin Han established the company in 2015 in Montreal, Quebec. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 01, 2019 |  |
| reThought Insurance | reThought is a technology-centric MGA focused on product innovation for Commercial Lines. |  | Seed | May 20, 2019 |  |
| Rentlogic | Rentlogic is a tech-enabled standards organization that grades every apartment building in New York City (A, B, C, and F) for health and safety. The grades are based on physical inspections and public data from city agencies. Rentlogic’s methodology was developed in collaboration with stakeholders from all facets of the housing sector to be fair,credible and objective. |  | Seed | Apr 19, 2019 |  |
| Insurdata | Insurdata provides insurance and reinsurance underwriters property-specific data to support their pricing, underwriting and portfolio management decisions. The firm specializes in high-resolution, peril-specific exposures and building-level risk data, using technology that includes mobile augmented reality and 3-D model creation, providing bothdesktop and mobile products. | $3M | Seed | Apr 15, 2019 |  |
| Ghost Robotics | Ghost Robotics is revolutionizing legged robotics and the market for highly agile and fast tele-operated and autonomous unmanned ground drones for military, homeland, intel, and enterprise markets. Our quadrupedal UGVs (Q-UGVs) are unstoppable. |  | Seed | Mar 15, 2019 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Prototype Capital invest in?

Prototype Capital invests primarily in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Prototype Capital's check size?

Prototype Capital typically joins rounds of $130k–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Prototype Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Prototype Capital?

Public channels for Prototype Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Prototype Capital?

The team at Prototype Capital includes Austin Kaidi (Biotech/Healthcare Venture Scout), Greg Schwartz (Venture Scout) and Jared Schwartzentruber (Venture Scout), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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