Josef Chen

Hardware:

• Dirac (Assemblies), pre-seed | Coatue & Founders Fund

• Isembard (Manufacturing), pre-seed | CIV, USV

• Aethero (Space Compute), pre-seed | Kindred

• Icarus (Space Robots), pre-seed | Soma

• RMFG (Manufacturing), pre-seed | YC, Soma

• Dalus (Systems Engineering), pre-seed | YC

• Space Forge (Space Manufacturing), series A | NIF

• Cuby (Mobile Factories), SPV | Type One

• Swish (Consumer Robots), pre-seed | Accel

• Crewline (Construction), pre-seed | Initialised

• Raven (AR Glasses), pre-seed | Draper

• Tau (Robot Learning), pre-seed

• Deft (Forward Deployed Robotics), pre-seed

• Minerva (Humanoids), pre-seed | General Catalyst

• Standard Manufacturing (Assembly), pre-seed

AI:

• Haize (LLM Harness), pre-seed | General Catalyst

• Strala (Claims Processing), pre-seed | Founders Fund

• Seamflow (Certifications), pre-seed | Northzone

• Lilac (Pivoting), pre-seed | YC and Khosla

• Iconic (Gaming Tools), pre-seed | Kindred

• Faction (Manufacturers), pre-seed | Hidden Capital

• PMT (neolab), pre-seed | Index

• Asterix (Healthcare), pre-seed

• Truvo (Insurance), pre-seed | firstminute

• Stealth (Defense), pre-seed | Lakestar

Solo GPs:

• Koko Xs, Fund I

• Belief Capital, Fund I

• Chaotica Fund, Fund I

• Entropy Industrial Capital, Fund I

• Calm/Storm, Fund I

• H3 Capital, Fund I

• Prototype Capital, Fund III

Other:

• Praxis (A City, literally)

• Silk (Bubble Tea Chain)

• Bezel (Watch Marketplace)

And many more incl. aphrodisiac drinks, seaweed rum…

Last updated: 1 Mar 2026