Spacecadet Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Spacecadet Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Spacecadet is The Marketing VC, investing in Spacecadets building moonshots and helping tell their stories.
- Total investments:
- 115
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
- Fund size:
- $30M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Spacecadet Ventures invests in
Stages Spacecadet Ventures invests in
Countries Spacecadet Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$3M
- Series A
- $4.5M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (16%)
- Information Technology 12 (10%)
- Health Care 10 (9%)
- Aerospace 7 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 57 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 21 (18%)
- Series A 13 (11%)
- Funding Round 8 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 67 (58%)
- Canada 5 (4%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Austria 1 (1%)
- Iceland 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Eckler
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John McCarthy
CEO, Studio
|
CEO, Studio | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Wiz Khuzai
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Anvil Robotics
|
Anvil develops a platform that integrates robotics hardware and software for building physical AI applications. The company provides configurable devkits that include robot arms, sensors, cameras, and compute systems designed for tasks such as teleoperation, data collection, and model training. Its platform supports real-time control systems,inverse kinematics solvers, and compatibility with frameworks such as ROS2 and LeRobot, enabling teams to develop and deploy robotic workflows. Anvil’s ecosystem allows users to mix and customize components across different robotic configurations, supporting research, enterprise, and startup use cases. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 02, 2026 | |
Arinna
|
Arinna builds ultra-light, flexible high-power solar tech to energize space infrastructure and next-gen power systems. | $4M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | |
Parallax Worlds
|
Parallax Worlds is a software platform that robots in realistic simulations to detect and fix failures before real-world deployment. | $4M / Seed / Nov 20, 2025 | |
TRIC Robotics
|
TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | |
|
Kascaid
|
Kascaid is developing biosensors for real-time monitoring of inflammatory biomarkers. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 09, 2025 | |
Zaun
|
Expand to modern threat coverage and make lean security operations possible. Secure cloud, identity, and AI alongside endpoint, network, and more. Accelerate detection & response, reporting, and security engineering in one AI-native platform. Then, add 24/7 expert MDR on your terms. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2025 | |
Athenic AI
|
Athenic AI is a data analytics platform that gets you mission critical insights in seconds, not days. Its platform also offers intuitive data infrastructure, data unification, creating pipelines that measure business, use machine learning for accurate predictions, and sharing dashboards to visualize results. | $4.3M / Seed / Jan 30, 2025 | |
Psyrin
|
Psyrin is a healthcare company specializing in AI-enabled care for serious mental illness. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 29, 2024 | |
Cassidy
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Build AI Automations & Assistants Trained on Your Business. | $3.7M / Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | |
Ancilia Biosciences
|
Ancilia Biosciences develops engineered bacterial therapies to treat diseases linked to the microbiome. It provides and develops novel bacterial therapies that target the viral components of the microbiome to address chronic diseases across immunology and oncology indications. | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 17, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Spacecadet Ventures invest in?
Spacecadet Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 115 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 Spacecadet Ventures's check size?
Spacecadet Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9M at Seed, $1M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$29M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Spacecadet Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Spacecadet Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Spacecadet Ventures?
The team at Spacecadet Ventures includes Daniel Eckler (Co-Founder), John McCarthy (CEO, Studio) and Wiz Khuzai (Co-Founder & General Partner). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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