# Techstars Autonomous Technology

> Techstars Autonomous Technology is a VC fund backing CleanTech and Manufacturing. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Techstars Autonomous Technology is a VC fund focused on CleanTech and Manufacturing.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$120k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CleanTech | 1 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 25% |
| Nanotechnology | 1 | 25% |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | 25% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GRAPHENEST | Graphenest is a provider of an end-to-end turnkey solution based on a proprietary, economical, scalable and environmentally-friendly manufacturing technology for graphene materials. Graphenest's expertise is focused on lightweight, flexible and conductive applications for advanced composites and functional coatings that fit across automotive,electronics, aerospace, and specialized composite industries. Graphenest was part of Techstars Air Force program (Q1 '18) in Boston. After the program ended, Graphenest's team was able to successfully develop multiple partnerships with major corporations, build its first industrial facility, expand the team and showcase two off-the-shelf products, HexaMatrix and HexaShield. | $120K | Seed | Jan 23, 2018 |  |
| Guardion | Guardion helps save lives by detecting and tracking dirty bombs in their cities. Guardion has the world's first radiation detector that exploits quantum properties of nanomaterials allowing us to build low cost, sensitive, and low power detectors uniquely capable of being deployed at a large-scale. Guardion was a winner of the $50kMassChallenge 2017 Gold Prize and Technology in Space Prize from CASIS (Center for Advancement in Science in Space) and Boeing. In early 2018, Guardion joined the inaugural cohort of the Techstars Autonomous Tech Accelerator sponsored by the Air Force. | $120K | Seed | Jan 22, 2018 |  |
| OmniPreSense | OmniPreSense is developing Smart City traffic monitoring sensors to help make our cities safer. The sensors detect excessive speeding and are networked to provide real time alerts or traffic reports. This data is easily provided to authorities for speed calming or other corrective actions. We are currently in Beta site testing of our product. Wehave validation of the market as we have had customers who are engineers buying our base radar sensor and building their own traffic monitor. Now we're building a simple to use solution for everyone. Our product is like Ring, but instead of protecting your door we protect your neighborhood.OmniPreSense was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $120K | Seed | Jan 22, 2018 |  |
| Notch Technologies |  | $120K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Techstars Autonomous Technology invest in?

Techstars Autonomous Technology invests primarily in CleanTech, Manufacturing and Nanotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Techstars Autonomous Technology's check size?

Techstars Autonomous Technology typically joins rounds of $120k–$120k 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 Techstars Autonomous Technology participates in.

### When did Techstars Autonomous Technology last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Techstars Autonomous Technology closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 4 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 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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