A new asset class to translate breakthroughs from academia to market.
Engine Ventures backs the next generation of Tough Tech founders—providing capital, operational expertise, and access to a powerful network across academia, industry, and government. We help build and scale companies unlocking massive opportunities in energy and climate, human health, advanced systems, and infrastructure.
We invest in Tough Tech founders, helping bridge the gap from discovery to commercialization. These companies bring forward clearly defined technical solutions to global challenges, often through the convergence of multiple disciplines. As an early-stage investor, Engine Ventures backs mission-driven teams with the ambition, grit, and vision to build transformative, long-lasting companies.
We convene the investment, government, academic, regulatory, and corporate communities to help accelerate the progress of those working to grow and build Tough Tech companies. We create opportunities for our portfolio companies to learn from the lessons of existing large corporations and industry leaders. Simultaneously, industry and government have a chance to learn from Engine Venture’s portfolio companies and collaborate on how to augment or build upon existing solutions. Together, our network helps remove obstacles and clear a path to commercialization and success for our portfolio.
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Capital
Investing in solutions that increase the speed of innovation, are sustainable on a changing planet, and increase humanity’s resilience in the face of crisis.
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Expertise
Leveraging industry-specific operational and business experience to assist technical founders as they make growth, hiring and commercialization decisions.
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Network
Facilitating the creation of long-term mutually beneficial relationships between founders, startups, strategic corporate partners, policy makers, and investors.
“The Engine is infinitely more than just money. You have a group of companies that are vibrating at the same wavelength, aligned to the same macro trend and same goal. We are working together in a way — we have the same greater purpose.”
