# Tower Research Capital

> Tower Research Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tower-research-capital
- Website: http://www.tower-research.com/

Tower Research Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services. Tower Research Ventures is the venture arm of Tower Research Capital. Founded in 1998, Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm headquartered in New York, United States. The Ventures team combines Tower's technological expertise with thoughtful due diligence and market insight to find value. The firm partners with startups in theearliest stages, from incubation to seed. The firm has a 25-year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities. The firm employs approximately 1,200 people in more than a dozen offices globally.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 28% |
| Software | 3 | 17% |
| Financial Exchanges | 3 | 17% |
| Legal | 2 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Gorton | Founder | 0 | — |
| Ravi Sarma | Partner and Portfolio Manager | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The American Baby Company | The American Baby Company provides fertility care focused on making fertility treatment more transparent, accessible, and patient-centered. | $4M | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Guard Owl | Guard Owl is building AI agents for the physical security industry. We automate the backbone of security firms — scheduling, dispatch, and reporting — while giving property managers real-time transparency, standardized documentation, and independent accountability. With Guard Owl, firms and property managers share a single source of truth for thefirst time, turning security from a black box into a verifiable, asset that protects billions in property. | $3M | Seed | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Procurement Sciences AI | Procurement Sciences AI is a Vertical AI SaaS that offers a transformative platform powered by advancements in generative AI. A growth-stage vertical AI SaaS company was disrupting the government contracting procurement process from start to finish with various AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents. | $30M | Series B | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Mentium.io | Mentium provides an AI-powered digital workforce tailored for logistics and freight operations. Its platform enables companies—such as shippers, brokers, and factoring firms—to deploy AI agents that automate manual tasks like document processing, invoice matching, order entry, quoting, payment tracking, and reporting using natural-language SOPs andintegrations with existing systems. It supports multiple formats (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, images, handwritten notes) and offers unified insights for auditing, trend detection, and discrepancy identification. | $3.2M | Seed | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange | National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange is an electronic platform facilitating trading in commodity derivatives. It offers futures and options contracts across a spectrum of agricultural commodities—such as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, spices, and fibres—as well as select non-agricultural products. The exchange ensures regulation by theSecurities and Exchange Board of India, with an independent board of directors overseeing operations. It enhances market transparency and price discovery through standardized contracts and a real-time electronic trading system. | $56.7M | Series C | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| SalesDraft | SalesDraft is an AI sales recruiting platform that automates the recruiting process. | $3M | Seed | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| Atomic Canyon | The Atomic Canyon AI application is intended for use by nuclear power plants, next-generation reactor builders, and government and national laboratories. | $7M | Seed | May 28, 2025 |  |
| CaseBlink | CaseBlink builds end-to-end workflows with generative AI, processing complex, writing-intensive applications for immigration lawyers. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Texas Stock Exchange | The Texas Stock Exchange focuses on helping US and global enterprises to have access to US equity capital markets, as well as providing a forum for trading and listing public corporations and the expanding universe of exchange-traded products. | $41M | Private Equity | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| CaseBlink | CaseBlink builds end-to-end workflows with generative AI, processing complex, writing-intensive applications for immigration lawyers. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Tower Research Capital invest in?

Tower Research Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Tower Research Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Tower Research Capital?

The team at Tower Research Capital includes Mark Gorton (Founder) and Ravi Sarma (Partner and Portfolio Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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