Omni Ventures

We are proud to share that our first (stealth) investment from our new fund is backed by an all-star team of co-investors: Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins. This powerful alliance validates our investment thesis and signals a bright future for the startups we support. Also pumped to see industry titans investing in deals that are core to our thesis and excited for them to continue fostering and investing in our startups as they scale. Thank you to all our incredible founders, LPs, co-investors that have believed in us and helped us come this far!

Last week we were asked: Why are there no significant advancements in material science with AI? There are! Here is one: Earlier this month, GenMat was acquired by Comstock, superseding a milestone-based investment of $50 million for 50% of equity back in 2021. It’s a great showcase of how AI can advance humanity and science: GenMat uses machine learning and quantum computing to accelerate breakthroughs in materials engineering. It is one of the world’s first AI for materials science and uses physics-based modeling to rapidly discover new materials: ➡️ Determine and access the required materials ➡️ Understanding of material properties at quantum level ➡️ Lower R&D costs of advanced materials ➡️ Optimized design and manufacturing The models were optimized for silicon-based semiconductors and are being expanded for photovoltaics, superconductors, and batteries. We expect to see a lot more activity happening. If you are a founder at the intersection of materials and AI - reach out! #materials #ai #quantum

📣 Calling all Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, and Product Designers! You’re not going to want to miss this one. 📣 Join us for our next Beers with VCs as we sit down with the founders of Drafter, Chris Barton and Peter Atkin, to dive into their groundbreaking vision for the future of part design and manufacturing. They’re transforming the process of creating physical parts from CAD by automating the tedious steps, so engineers can focus on the exciting and creative aspects of the process. We’ll hear firsthand how they plan to transform the industry. This is going to be a fun one! 🍻 #EngineeringDesign #ManufacturingInnovation #CAD #Drafter #BeerswithVCs

Don't miss this opportunity to network with vetted founders and investors, including Simon Lancaster, founding GP at Omni Ventures, along with NEC X and Qlay. That's not all — we're welcoming 10 startups to pitch in front of the audience! Join us on 10/28 from 6-9 PM PT at this official TechCrunch Disrupt side event. Register now >>> https://bit.ly/4du6TSM #TechStartup #StartupCompany #Entrepreneurship #EmergingTechnologies #StartupInvestor #TechCrunchDisrupt

Emerging Managers, this one's for you! We’ll be having a conversation with the one and only Winter Mead. Winter is founder of Coolwater Capital, which has successfully launching over 200 emerging managers in the past 4 years alone, and the author of “How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund”. We’re going to be diving deep into the history of the macroeconomic environment and outline why emerging managers will continue to be a pillar of the venture capital ecosystem, how to stand out as an emerging manager, the importance of institutionalizing your back office, and take a look at how to support innovation on a global scale. You won’t want to miss it! #VentureCapital #EmergingManagers #CoolwaterCapital #OmniVentures

Huge Congratulations to the whole Drafter team for reaching this milestone! Drafter holds a very special place in my heart. During my career at Apple, I spent literally thousands of hours working on drawings for assemblies of hundreds of parts. Frankly, it was a pain in the ass. From balancing the needs of the design assembly to understanding the manufacturing complexity implications to predicting the cost implications, working on drawings required months of back and forth between multiple teams for every product launch. The more tenured folks on the team had this sixth sense around what would work better and what wouldn't, but I was always frustrated that the learnings sharing couldn't happen on a more efficient basis. A lot of this knowledge base was well defined, but not well shared until after you suffered through a few expensive mistakes. And given the bandwidth constraints of more tenured members of the team, I'm sure lots of potential optimization was left unrealized in each of our programs. Drafter is the first step at solving these pain points! I've been so impressed by Chris Barton, Peter Atkin, and the whole Drafter team for their thoughtfulness and strategy in bringing this vision to life. This product launch is just the first step in many exciting things to come. We started Omni Ventures to support companies exactly like this. I can't wait for the worst parts of my old job to be a thing of the past!

🚀 We're Excited to Announce Our Investment in Drafter! 🚀 Omni Ventures is thrilled to announce our investment into Drafter. Drafter is revolutionizing the way designers and manufacturers communicate by streamlining the alignment of design functionality, cost, and production time. They are unlocking modern levels of efficiency for engineering design and manufacturing for all industries, from aerospace to automotive to consumer electronics. Their first product, the automation of 2D Drawing creation, marks the first big step towards that goal. This product launch is just the beginning, and we’re eager to support them as they continue to pave the way for creating a new standard for how parts are designed and manufactured. #VentureCapital #ProductDesign #ManufacturingTech #2DDrawings #Innovation #OmniVentures

This one is for the founders! This week we’re sitting down with Jason Shepherd, CEO of Atym, who will be walking us through the history of embedded systems and how Atym discovered an extremely compelling opportunity within the industry. We’ll be delving into some hot topics like why an Open Source component to your business model may actually make sense for your Deep Tech business (and how to avoid repeating Docker’s monetization failures) and how to get past the ‘POC friend zone’ when working with large corporations. If you’re doing anything even tangentially related to embedded systems or working on scaling a steeply technical business with large corporate customers, you won’t want to miss it! #venturecapital #founders #embeddedsystems #OmniVentures

🚀 We're Excited to Announce Our Lead Investment in Atym's Seed Round! 🚀 Omni Ventures is thrilled to partner with Emerson Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Bee Partners, and Tuscan Management in supporting Atym.  Atym’s product offering has the potential to completely transform the management of highly constrained embedded devices for a variety of industries. They have already had an impressive year, seeding the code base for Project Ocre - a revolutionary containerization solution, and joining Margo Initiative - a powerful orchestrator of orchestrators, both with the Linux Foundation alongside ABB, Capgemini, Cosmonic, Dianomic, Intel, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, SUSE, and ZEDEDA. Atym is set to redefine how applications are developed and managed across a multitude of industries due to their breakthrough using 1000 times less memory than traditional container softwares. By breaking through the "Linux barrier," Atym brings cloud-native development principles to resource-constrained devices ranging from sensors and smart cameras to industrial controllers and autonomous systems—enabling them to run containerized applications and become more sophisticated, secure, and easier to manage. This innovation is crucial as industries across the board continue to demand more from their existing systems, looking for ways to enable them with AI integration, improved security, and management capabilities without needing to upgrade their hardware. We strongly believe in Atym’s vision and are proud to back their mission to revolutionize the embedded system landscape. The traction they’ve already achieved is just the beginning, and we’re eager to support them as they continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Here’s to the future of constrained devices innovation! 🌟 #VentureCapital #EmbeddedSystems #Innovation #IoT #OmniVentures

🌟 What an incredible day at the Monte Jade West AI Summit! 🌟 Held at the beautiful Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, today’s event brought together a great network of passionate technology and business leaders, showcasing some of the brightest minds in the industry. Brandon Wang, VP at Synopsys, moderated a dynamic discussion on AI and Technology featuring Achin Bhowmik, CTO of Starkey and Stanford Professor, Wen H. Hsieh, Ph.D., Founding Managing Partner at Matter Venture Partners, Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of the Industrial AI Center at the University of Maryland, and Wei Li, VP of Intel and Head of AI software. The AI and Investment panel, led by Robert Fan, SVP Global Sales at Silicon Motion and President of SMI USA, included insights from Steve Fu, Partner at Celesta Capital, Shaun Johnson, Founding Partner at AIXVenture, Simon Lancaster 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇵🇹, General Partner and Founder of Omni Venture Labs, Marco Marinucci, Co-founder and Partner at Essentia Venture, and Chris Yeh, Founding Partner of Blitzscaling Venture. The discussions were informative, entertaining, and electrifying! There’s nothing quite like having a candid group of panelists (yes, one even came up from the audience!) sharing real-world insights on the transformative power of AI. Big thanks to John Chen, Corporate VP of Nvidia, for adding a few artistic strokes to the event! As our chairwoman, Nana Tseng, said, "Human connections are the real highlight of any event—AI or not!"