Blackhorn Ventures

Tristar AI provides software solutions that help ensure the availability, reliability, and quality of products for manufacturers in precision industries such as plastics, automotive, and chemicals through AI-powered smart cameras and computer vision technology.

Ridepanda is an e-bike and scooter subscription platform integrated into company benefits, allowing employees to choose from a wide selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes, and e-scooters for their commuting needs.

ThinkLabs develops AI digital twins and agents for utilities and grid operators to manage complex electric systems, aiming for energy autonomy and sustainability.

Formic provides end-of-line automation solutions, specializing in case packing and palletizing for various industries including snack foods, dairy, and baking. Their innovative approach includes a full-service automation model that integrates advanced robotics and software to enhance manufacturing efficiency.

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Golioth provides an IoT platform that simplifies the development and management of connected devices, enabling developers to build and launch hardware that is ready for AI integration.

ALICE is the world's first construction optioneering platform that helps GCs to easily create, explore, and update construction schedules that reduce risk while cutting construction costs and build time.

Aperia Technologies offers IT services for government, fintech, and private cloud solutions. They focus on innovation, security, and customer intelligence, supporting millions of users globally.

Ironspring Ventures is a venture capital fund purpose-built around "digital industrial" innovation, focusing exclusively on modernizing legacy industrial sectors like construction, manufacturing, transport & logistics, and alternative energy. The firm deliberately targets the "missing middle" round in industrial tech—typically leading or co-leading post-seed/Series A checks of $2–4M into ~$7–10M rounds—and uses a highly curated industrial operator network as an explicit go-to-market "superpower" to immediately open doors to global OEMs, industrial contractors, and supply-chain incumbents.

Thesis-driven fund transforming manufacturing, logistics, transportation, energy, defense and critical infrastructure into tech-first industrials, leveraging deep industrial expertise and scaled operating experience from Uber to deploy software and AI.

Full-stack industrial technology investor backing hardware-software-data companies in manufacturing, logistics, energy, and transportation. Uses a distinctive Venture Equity model to co-found companies with senior operators from Tesla, Amazon Robotics, and Northvolt, going from idea to product and early manufacturing in 6-12 months.

Led by Datto founder Austin McChord, fund invests at Series A in modernizing unglamorous, large markets—e.g., cattle supply chains, industrial painting, satellite buses—and has scaled winners to unicorn rounds.