Eclipse Ventures

VulcanForms sets the standard for advanced metal manufacturing, combining additive and subtractive processes to help you create better performing parts while ensuring a secure and reliable U.S.-based supply chain.

Cerebras Systems is at the forefront of AI innovation, building the world's fastest AI inference and training platform. Their technology is utilized across various fields including medical research, cryptography, energy, and agentic AI.

Wayve is pioneering a new era for automated driving with its advanced AI technology, focusing on embodied AI for autonomy and next-gen autonomous driving solutions.

Cellares is the first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) focused on accelerating access to life-saving cell therapies through fully automated, scalable manufacturing solutions.

Tenstorrent develops RISC-V CPUs, Tensor AI processors, and open-source software to enhance AI capabilities, providing scalable computing solutions from individual cards to full clusters.

6 River Systems specializes in warehouse automation solutions, providing advanced robotic systems and software to optimize fulfillment operations.

Verkada is the market leader in cloud-based video security and access control, helping organizations centralize and scale their security with a software-first approach.

Augury is an AI-driven company specializing in predictive and prescriptive machine health solutions. It offers AI-powered tools for manufacturing optimization and asset condition monitoring, focusing on improving production efficiency and sustainability.

Bright Machines is a technology company that specializes in automating manufacturing processes using intelligent software and robotics. They focus on creating smart factories that leverage machine learning and IoT to enhance production efficiency.

Lucira Health is a company associated with Pfizer, providing health-related services and support through a Zendesk help center.

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.

Pre-seed/seed specialist focusing on physical AI and deep-tech (robotics, sensors, quantum/next-gen compute, energy transition) that commercializes University of Chicago deep-tech for real-world industries. The firm uniquely runs Harper Court Ventures Fund I, a $25M pre-seed/seed fund formed via an exclusive cooperation agreement with the University of Chicago to commercialize the university's deep-tech research in quantum, AI, energy, and life sciences.

R7 Partners is a Chicago- and New York-based venture capital fund that specializes in hardware-heavy industrial technology like autonomous cargo flights, robotic farms, and solid-oxide fuel cells. Positioned as a Hardtech VC, R7 operates on the thesis that intelligence is coming into the physical world through AI and robotics applied to atoms rather than bits. The fund backs capex-heavy, long-horizon bets in hard-to-abate decarbonization sectors that many traditional early-stage funds avoid.