Tectonic Ventures
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Tectonic Ventures is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Remarkable founders have a vision that will shift the future.
- Total investments:
- 50
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
- Fund size:
- $87M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Tectonic Ventures invests in
Stages Tectonic Ventures invests in
Countries Tectonic Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $4M–$10M
- Series A
- $10M–$26M
- Series B
- $28M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (22%)
- Robotics 6 (12%)
- Information Technology 6 (12%)
- Health Care 5 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (28%)
- Series A 11 (22%)
- Series B 6 (12%)
- Funding Round 6 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (10%)
Country
- United States 29 (58%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Mexico 1 (2%)
- Sweden 1 (2%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Dr. Vinay Nair
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Morris Miller
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Cortex Ventures
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Cortex Ventures is an AI platform acquiring and scaling electrical engineering firms to accelerate hardware design and engineering delivery. | $10M / Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | |
Neurophos
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Neurophos develops photonic AI processing technology that focuses on hardware solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence inference by replacing traditional electronic compute elements with optical processing units (OPUs). The company’s technology uses ultra-dense optical modulators and silicon photonics to enable computation using light,aiming to support matrix operations central to AI workloads with increased energy efficiency and performance relative to conventional graphics processing units. Neurophos’ offerings include prototype OPUs and development systems designed to integrate into data center environments, and its platform targets engineering teams and compute-intensive applications that demand scalable AI inference capability. The business collaborates with industry partners and investors to advance its optical compute architecture and develop supporting software stacks and hardware modules for deployment. Neurophos also engages in pilot programs and partnerships to test its photonic processors in real-world compute environments and explore integration pathways with existing infrastructure. Its work leverages research in metamaterials and compute-in-memory design to reduce power consumption and enhance throughput for AI inference tasks. | $110M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | |
Pluto Financial Technologies
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Pluto is an AI-powered lending platform that lets investors borrow against private assets, with repayment from future distributions. | $8.6M / Seed / Jan 06, 2026 | |
Pluto
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Pluto is the most comprehensive & powerful corporate card and spend management platform built for MENA businesses. From small businesses to the largest multi-national group holdings, businesses such as Property Finder, Knight Frank and Swissport have trusted Pluto with all of their non-payroll spending.Pluto combines the power of gettingaccess to instant issuance unlimited corporate cards, full end-to-end reimbursements, petty cash & account payables management all within one platform. No more chasing for receipts, manually approving invoices on long e-mail threads or sharing one corporate card with several people. Pluto's enterprise platform brings control back to complex finance and accounting business processes and creates a streamlined approach to controlling your company's spending. | $8.6M / Seed / Jan 06, 2026 | |
Guide Labs
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Guide Labs is a software development company that builds interpretable models to explain reasoning that are easy to steer, debug, and align. | $9.3M / Seed / Dec 04, 2025 | |
evolvedMD
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EvolvedMD is leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. | $34M / Series B / Jul 14, 2025 | |
Villa Homes
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Villa Homes is a construction company that helps homeowners and communities building backyard homes. It offers high-quality homes at reasonable prices, handling every part of the process to make it as easy as possible for them. VillaHomes was founded by James Connolly and Zephan McMinn in San Francisco, California. | $25.3M / Series A / Apr 29, 2025 | |
Voyage AI
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Voyage AI develops models that improve retrieval quality for search and AI applications, such as question answering and code generation. These models can be customized for specific domains and companies, leading to better results in areas like question answering and code generation. | $20M / Series A / Oct 03, 2024 | |
Butlr
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Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning. | $38M / Series B / Aug 26, 2024 | |
Vecna Robotics
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Vecna Robotics offers automated material handling, hybrid fulfillment, and workflow optimization solutions. The company aims to revolutionize customer productivity by delivering the best automation technologies. By placing workflows over robots, the company ensures that all parts and players complement each other. | $40M / Series C / Jun 20, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Tectonic Ventures invest in?
Tectonic Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 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 Tectonic Ventures's check size?
Tectonic Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$10M at Seed, $10M–$26M at Series A and $28M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tectonic Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Tectonic Ventures?
The team at Tectonic Ventures includes Dr. Vinay Nair (Founder), Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Managing Partner) and Morris Miller (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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