Engine Ventures
Cambridge · Invests in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Website
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Tough Tech venture firm backing founders commercialising breakthrough science in energy, materials, infrastructure, computing and human health. Invests early and stays through technical validation to industrial scale, rooted in the MIT/Harvard research ecosystem.
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The Business Journals
MIT's The Engine splits into two sister companies as tough-tech accelerator turns 10
2 months ago
AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/22/26
2 months ago
TechCrunch
This startup's super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
2 months ago
AlleyWatch
The 17 Largest Global Startup Funding Rounds of April 2026
3 months ago
TechCrunch
Exclusive: DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter
6 months ago
Business Wire
DG Matrix Closes $60 Million Series A to Scale Next-Generation Power Infrastructure for AI and Electrification
6 months ago
Yale Insights
‘Tough Tech’ Requires a Different Kind of Venture Capital
7 months ago
citybiz
Lockheed Martin Ventures Joins $150M Series B for Auto Sensor Startup Teradar
9 months ago
WBUR
At The WBUR Festival, exploring the good and bad scenarios for Massachusetts’ future
Jun 2025
Business Insider
Inside The Engine Accelerator, the anti-Y Combinator for 'tough tech' startups
Aug 2024
Canary Media
This MIT-backed fund wants to solve the toughest climate problems
Jun 2024
Teknovation.biz
VC News | The Engine Ventures raises a nearly $400 million fund
Jun 2024
New Private Markets
In brief: VC raises $398m to tackle global challenges
Jun 2024
Business Wire
Translating Breakthroughs from Lab to Market, The Engine Ventures Scales its Pioneering Tough Tech Investment Model
Jun 2024
The Boston Globe
The Engine, an MIT-backed VC fund, raises $400 million to invest in startups
Jun 2024
Forbes
MIT Spinout The Engine Ventures Raises New $398 Million Fund To Tackle Tech’s Toughest Problems
Jun 2024
The Boston Globe
Katie Rae, Engine Ventures | Boston Tech Leaders
May 2024
Venture Capital Journal
MIT-backed Engine Ventures promotes Kearney to GP
Nov 2023
citybiz
Engine Ventures Promotes Michael Kearney to General Partner
Nov 2023
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