# Xora Innovation

> Xora Innovation is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xora-innovation/
- Website: https://www.xora.vc/

Xora Innovation is an investment platform that specializes in early-stage deep tech venture investments to accelerate the path to market.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$100M |
| Series A | $14M–$200M |
| Series B | $37M–$270M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |
| Energy | 4 | 10% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 10% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 7% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 32% |
| Seed | 6 | 15% |
| Series B | 4 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 32% |
| Singapore | 4 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donna See | Chief Executive Officer | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donna-see-0377 |
| Hari Ramachandran | Venture Builder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hari-ramachandran-2 |
| Phil Inagaki | Executive | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-inagaki-1218 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elio Labs | Elio Labs develops an optical computing technology to improve sensing capabilities across diverse cellular environments. | $21M | Series A | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Hyperlight | HyperLight provides thin-film lithium niobate photonic integrated circuit solutions. They deliver groundbreaking electro-optic and nonlinear optical solutions with scalable manufacturing processes. They work closely with their customers from conceptualization, design, prototyping, and transfer to volume production. | $80M | Series C | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| Amperesand | Amperesand operates as a grid infrastructure solution provider. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| GridCARE | GridCARE provides energy security and resilience at a never-before-seen pace, making it the indispensable one-stop power solution for AI data centers. | $64M | Series A | May 14, 2026 |  |
| OpenLight | OpenLight is a manufacturing industry. | $50M | Series A | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| NeuBird | NeuBird is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based generative operations platform for enterprises. | $19.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Rhoda AI | Rhoda is building a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. By combining internet-scale video pretraining with closed-loop video predictive control, Rhoda aims to enable robots that can adapt, generalize, and operate autonomously across real-world environments. The company works withleading industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics. | $450M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Bedrock Robotics | Bedrock Robotics delivers enhanced autonomy to the built environment, allowing the construction sector to build at the rate that today's society requires. | $270M | Series B | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Gruve | Gruve is a startup focused on transforming AI strategies into tangible outcomes for enterprises, leveraging AI-driven solutions to boost growth and security. The company specializes in providing innovative AI solutions that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and facilitate digital success for businesses. | $50M | Series A | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Upscale AI | Upscale AI is a high‑performance AI networking company accelerating AI democratization with open‑standard and full‑stack turnkey solutions. | $200M | Series A | Jan 21, 2026 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mayfield Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfield-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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- [TDK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tdk-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Temasek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/temasek) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Xora Innovation invest in?

Xora Innovation invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Energy startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 41 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 Xora Innovation's check size?

Xora Innovation typically joins rounds of $5M–$100M at Seed, $14M–$200M at Series A and $37M–$270M 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 Xora Innovation participates in.

### How do I contact Xora Innovation?

Public channels for Xora Innovation include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Xora Innovation?

The team at Xora Innovation includes Donna See (Chief Executive Officer), Hari Ramachandran (Venture Builder) and Phil Inagaki (Executive). 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 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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