# Quaker Capital Investments, LLC

> Quaker Capital Investments, LLC is a VC fund backing Apps, Energy and Big Data. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Quaker Capital Investments, LLC is a single family investment office founded in Pittsburgh in 2014.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| Energy | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Delivery | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avisi Technologies | Avisi Technologies develops ophthalmic medical devices using nanotechnology to address vision loss associated with glaucoma and related eye conditions. The company designs implantable solutions such as VisiPlate, an aqueous shunt that regulates intraocular fluid through microchannel structures to help manage eye pressure. Its work combinesmaterials science and ophthalmology to create minimally invasive devices intended for long-term function within the eye. | $10.8M | Series A | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Lumino | Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Ecotone Renewables | Ecotone Renewables make sustainable food and agriculture systems more accessible and prevalent outside the industrial scale. Ecotone is dedicated to building the tools necessary to empower communities to redevelop and grow through sustainable food practices.Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant wastedisposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion. Ecotone aims to close the food loop by transforming otherwise wasted food and energy into nutrients that restart the food loop. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Avisi Technologies | Avisi Technologies develops ophthalmic medical devices using nanotechnology to address vision loss associated with glaucoma and related eye conditions. The company designs implantable solutions such as VisiPlate, an aqueous shunt that regulates intraocular fluid through microchannel structures to help manage eye pressure. Its work combinesmaterials science and ophthalmology to create minimally invasive devices intended for long-term function within the eye. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Gridwise | The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and amarketplace of gig worker benefits. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2020 |  |
| Gridwise | The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and amarketplace of gig worker benefits. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 01, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Innovation Works](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-works) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Beni VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beni-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mountain State Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mountain-state-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Startbot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startbot-io) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [412 Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/412-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Quaker Capital Investments, LLC invest in?

Quaker Capital Investments, LLC invests primarily in Apps, Energy and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Quaker Capital Investments, LLC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Quaker Capital Investments, LLC closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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