# Venus Capital

> Venus Capital is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and Gaming. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venus-capital-management-inc./
- Website: http://www.venuscapital.com/

Venus Capital is a six year old investment advisory company, which creates customized investment portfolios for individuals. Venus also manages and offers two hedge funds and one mutual fund. Currently, it has approximately $35 million under management distributed amongst 50 accounts. Venus thrives on providing personal attention to sophisticatedhigh net worth investors to cater to their investment needs.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Venus Capital. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Venus Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/venus-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Gaming | 2 | 50% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Security | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 75% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vik Mehrotra | CEO and CIO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vik-mehrotra |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arker:The legend of ohm | Arker is a nonfungible token (NFT), a play-to-earn game that allows users to earn crypto and trade it for actual money. To fight for the city of Ohm, players must recruit heroes of different classes. As a result, they increase the loot of Arker, a mineral of great value. Fighting against another player allows earning tokens, which can be exchangedfor items, and playing player-versus-environment enables to earn rewards for items. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 | https://playarker.com |
| Manzalab | Manzalab is one of the most innovative companies on the Serious Games market. | $2M |  | Oct 09, 2018 | http://www.manzalab.com |
| EcomXML | EcomXML is a leading e-commerce solution provider for business-to-business (B2B) enterprise integration. EcomXML provides companies with enterprise integration solutions to link their buyers, suppliers and e-commerce portals together to streamline their e-business in real-time through the Internet. EcomXML utilizes open XML technology to achieveboth inter-company and intra-company integration regardless their existing technology infrastructure. | $5.5M |  | Aug 11, 2000 | http://www.ecomxml.com |
| Lynx | For over 30 years, Lynx Software Technologies has enabled designs in security and safety critical markets including aviation/avionics, transportation, medical and defense systems. The LynxOS-178 RTOS is the first and only COTS operating system to receive acceptance for reusability from the FAA for DO-178B/C certification. LYNX MOSA.ic(TM) enables developers to architect and design modular embedded systems to leverage the reuse of existing code, third-party commercial solutions and open-source applications seamlessly, across various platforms. Lynx Software Technologies is active in many of the industry committees and groups that shape and maintain standards—such as OMG (Object Management Group), Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, power.org, and eclipse.org. This ensures that their customers’ needs are met by the standards they support, keeping their open systems current as standards evolve. For their avionics customers, they adhere to the ARINC 653 standard, and they offer a MILS-based separation kernel for their customers demanding the highest levels of security. They utilize the industry-standard Eclipse framework and the open-source projects such as CDT to provide an enterprise-strength open development environment. This commitment to openness extends to their customer relationships as well. They provide customers with access to source code and engineering resources, as well as the opportunity to participate in discussions of their product direction through their Customer Advisory Board. | $35M |  | Jun 19, 2000 | http://www.lynx.com/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Venus Capital invest in?

Venus Capital invests primarily in Software, Gaming and Mobile startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Venus Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Venus Capital?

The team at Venus Capital includes Vik Mehrotra (CEO and CIO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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