# SE Ventures

> SE Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/se-ventures/
- Website: https://www.se.com/ww/en/about-us/ventures/

SE Ventures is a $1B+ global venture capital fund, backed by Schneider Electric. Based in Menlo Park, SE Ventures invests in big ideas and bold entrepreneurs who can benefit from Schneider’s deep domain expertise and global customer reach. SE Ventures acts as a commercial accelerant for category-defining companies in climate & industrialtechnology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $18M–$143M |
| Series C | $14M–$127M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 21% |
| Energy | 9 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 14% |
| CleanTech | 7 | 11% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 19 | 30% |
| Series A | 11 | 17% |
| Series C | 8 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 11% |
| Seed | 6 | 10% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 54% |
| Germany | 4 | 6% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| India | 2 | 3% |
| France | 2 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Chaturvedy | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-chaturvedy |
| Gregoire Viasnoff | VP Business Incubation | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregoire-viasnoff |
| Julien Cristiani | General Partner, VP Head of Europe & Israel | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-cristiani |
| Varun Jain | General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varun-jain-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Higharc | Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects, and improves each step of design, construction, and sales for home building. It enables builders to design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in a single platform. Higharc is on a mission to help builders create better homes and communities, moreaffordably. | $95M | Series C | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| AlpSemi | AlpSemi is a semiconductor developing next-generation wide-bandgap power semiconductor technologies for sustainable electrification. | $19.4M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Forerunner | Forerunner provides software that helps communities better understand and actively manage their climate change risk. | $26.3M | Series B | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Aerem | Aerem is a fintech company that helps businesses and commercial enterprises harness the power of the sun and reduce electricity costs by up to 70%. The company is dedicated to helping businesses and enterprises adopt clean energy solutions, significantly reducing their electricity costs. Aerem aims to simplify solar adoption for micro, small, andmedium enterprises (MSMEs) and homeowners across India. | $15M | Series B | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Axion | AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work. | $37M | Series B | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Elecbits | Elecbits is a tech-enabled B2B platform that specializes in transforming electronics hardware ideas into shelf-ready products. By leveraging a smart, digital manufacturing platform, Elecbits democratizes the mass production process for electronics and IoT devices, making it significantly easier and faster for hardware enterprises and startups. Thecompany focuses on supporting the entire lifecycle of electronics product development, from initial concept to mass manufacturing. Elecbits aims to revolutionize the hardware ecosystem by providing comprehensive solutions that cater to the unique needs of each project, ensuring that every hardware company has the tools and resources to bring their innovations to market efficiently. | $5.5M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Hammerhead AI | Hammerhead AI enables AI factory operators to maximize revenue using Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents for power-aware orchestration. | $10M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Fabric8Labs | Fabric8Labs developed a unique process that is an intuitive combination of two mature technologies: Stereo-Lithography and Electro-Deposition. | $56M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Prisma Photonics | Prisma photonics helps to keep the most critical large-scale infrastructure running. Introducing the next generation of utility monitoring paving the way to smarter, safe, and efficient operations. We empower our customers and provide them with the best actionable insights on their assets, enabling them to move to a new era of digitalization.Prisma Photonics was founded in 2017 by a strong team of entrepreneurs, highly experienced in lasers, optical fiber, algorithms, and machine learning. Combining talent from the physics and laser world with algorithmic and machine learning expertise. The company is now in commercial deployment stage. | $30M |  | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Temelion | Temelion leverages AI to automate and simplify complex technical documentation and deliverables for building design engineers, ensuring precision, compliance, and faster project delivery. | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does SE Ventures invest in?

SE Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 63 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 SE Ventures's check size?

SE Ventures typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$19M at Series A, $18M–$143M at Series B and $14M–$127M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SE Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SE Ventures?

Public channels for SE Ventures include LinkedIn 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 SE Ventures?

The team at SE Ventures includes Amit Chaturvedy (Managing Partner), Gregoire Viasnoff (VP Business Incubation) and Julien Cristiani (General Partner, VP Head of Europe & Israel). 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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