Untapped Ventures

Untapped Ventures We lead, co-lead, and follow pre-seed & seed rounds with ~$1M+ checks for Agentic & Convergence AI. We invest in early-stage Agentic + Vertical AI startups.

Celebrating 6 years of Untapped Ventures!What started as an accelerator program and venture studio in LA has evolved int...
06/26/2026

Celebrating 6 years of Untapped Ventures!

What started as an accelerator program and venture studio in LA has evolved into a pre-seed and seed fund backing the founders building the Autonomous Economy.

To every founder who trusted us early, every LP who believed in the vision, and every team member who helped shape what Untapped is today - thank you.

The best is still ahead.

In 2025, Untapped Ventures stayed focused on the fundamentals. We looked past AI hype cycles to do the work early. Under...
01/29/2026

In 2025, Untapped Ventures stayed focused on the fundamentals. We looked past AI hype cycles to do the work early. Understanding where AI is headed, backing exceptional founders tackling hard problems, and building long-term trust with a deeply aligned LP community.

That focus showed up across investing, content, and community.

Over the course of the year, we:

✅ Launched Season 1 of the Agentic Podcast with 20 episodes, learning directly from founders and operators building at the frontier of AI

✅ Brought together founders, operators, and investors through SF & LA Tech Week events and private AI founder dinners designed for honest, off-the-record conversations

✅ Continued deploying Fund I, now backing 35 AI-native companies, several of which reached meaningful milestones in 2025.

Our 2025 Year in Review captures the lessons that shaped our conviction and how we’re approaching the work ahead as AI moves from experimentation into real-world deployment.

👉 Read the 2025 Year in Review: https://www.untapped.ventures/post/untapped-ventures-2025-year-in-review

01/22/2026

We’re proud to share our investment in Nexxa.ai, following their $9M Seed round, led by Construct Capital, with significant participation from a16z speedrun and continued support from existing investors.

Untapped Ventures backed Nexxa early and chose to invest again in the Seed after watching the team consistently turn a hard technical vision into real deployments across heavy industry.

Nexxa is bringing specialized, agentic AI directly into the workflows that power the economy, without forcing disruptive system overhauls. This is exactly the kind of mission-critical technology we seek to support.

Read our full Nexxa investment announcement - link in bio.

Congrats to Philipp Wehn, David (DH) Huang, and the entire Nexxa team!

12/19/2025

The future of AI will be constrained - or unlocked - by the energy systems beneath it.

AI is no longer just running on top of energy infrastructure. It is starting to reshape how energy itself is generated, managed, and optimized. Intelligent control systems are stabilizing fusion experiments, grid operators are forecasting and balancing demand before stress hits, autonomous machines are maintaining solar and wind assets, and new battery materials are being surfaced computationally.

Founders who get this right won’t just make energy more efficient. They’ll determine how scalable intelligence is powered in the decades ahead.

In the video below, our General Partner shares how we’re thinking about this convergence and why it matters.

At Untapped Ventures, we’re actively investing in teams building at the intersection of AI and energy - from grid intelligence and autonomy to materials, storage, and control systems.

The next platform shift won’t be powered by software alone.
It will be powered by intelligence embedded directly into the energy layer.

12/17/2025

If you’re building at the edge of AI and geopolitics, this shift is bigger than it looks.

AI is no longer just an efficiency layer for defense and aerospace. It’s reshaping how nations sense, decide, and act across air, space, and contested environments.

Autonomous ISR, AI-driven simulation, space intelligence, and autonomous flight are moving from theory to real-world deployment.

We’re watching this category take shape in real time.

This is the rise of dual-use AI, where national security and commercial opportunity converge. The same systems that protect infrastructure and borders are also pushing exploration, resilience, and global coordination forward.

In the video below, our General Partner shares how we’re thinking about this convergence and why we believe this represents one of the next major platform shifts.

At Untapped Ventures, we’re actively investing in teams building AI for real-world defense, aerospace, and space environments.

The next platform shift won’t live on a screen.
It will operate across air, orbit, and the systems that protect and extend humanity’s reach.

12/12/2025

If you’re building at the edge of AI x Neurotech, this moment is bigger than it looks.

AI is no longer just supporting neuroscience - it’s reshaping how cognition is decoded, understood, and extended.

Brain-computer interfaces are moving from lab experiments to FDA-cleared systems. Neural decoding is becoming practical. And cognitive augmentation is transitioning from research to real-world impact.

We’re watching this category take shape in real time.

AI is translating neural signals into action, restoring communication and mobility, and opening new pathways for how humans learn, create, and think.

In the video below, our General Partner George Bandarian shares how we’re thinking about this convergence - and why we believe Neurotech × AI represents one of the next major platform shifts.

Founders who get this right won’t just build new tools - they’ll redefine how humans and machines collaborate.

At Untapped Ventures, we’re actively investing in teams building at the intersection of Neurotech and AI, from neural decoding and BCIs to mind–machine collaboration and cognitive augmentation.

The next platform shift won’t live on a screen.

It will live in the human cognitive loop.

12/10/2025

A quiet revolution is underway in materials science - and it starts with AI taking over the hardest parts of discovery.

We’re seeing an entirely new workflow take shape as AI and automation move into the center of materials research.

Startups are screening trillions of molecular possibilities, generating novel compounds, and testing them through automated workflows that run overnight. What once required massive R&D teams and years of iteration can now be accelerated by AI-native platforms.

The impact is enormous: better batteries, greener concrete, cleaner manufacturing inputs, and next-generation semiconductor materials - all discovered faster, safer, and with far more precision.

If you’re building the intelligence layer that will power the next era of materials innovation, we want to meet you.

👇 George Bandarian II shares more in the clip below - watch the video and tag a founder pushing the future of Material AI.

12/05/2025

Imagine biology becoming computable - not in theory, but in practice.

Multi-omics, synthetic biology, and AI-driven drug discovery are converging into a new operating system for life sciences. The shift is already underway.

Startups are uncovering biomarkers hidden in massive datasets, designing proteins with unprecedented precision, and compressing R&D timelines from years to months. What once required entire research teams can now be accelerated by AI-native platforms.

If you’re building the intelligence layer that will power the next generation of therapeutics, diagnostics, and engineered biology, we want to meet you.

12/03/2025

Imagine robots that can think, see, and act - not just in demos, but in the real world. The hardware is ready, and the next step is the intelligence layer that brings vision, language, and physical action together.

The shift is already happening. Warehouses, construction sites, and hospitals are turning to embodied AI where human capacity can’t keep up.

If you’re building the systems that will make industries run smarter and safer, we want to chat.

👇 Watch the video - then tag someone building the future of intelligent robotics.

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