Investing in Early Stage Tech Founders.
Builder Capital backs founders building at the forefront of cryptography, robotics, photonics, AI, and advanced manufacturing.
Hard problems. Real technology.
Every era of progress is defined by a handful of technological breakthroughs.
Electricity. Flight. Semiconductors. The internet.
We think the next generation will emerge from advances in computation, photonics, robotics, and energy.
The hardest problems create the most enduring companies.
We invest in scientists and engineers turning breakthrough ideas into real systems — new machines, new industries, and new infrastructure. We back the people building the future.
We back the people building the future.
Cryptography
Robotics
Photonics
Quantum
Advanced Manufacturing
Portfolio

Grass built a cryptographic primitive to bootstrap one of the world's biggest residential proxy networks that enables large scale Live Context Retrieval for AI.

Neurophos, backed by Gates Frontier, is building the most efficient AI chip on the planet through the optimization of photonic tensor cores.

Founded by ex-Google and Tesla engineers, Feather is a general purpose robotics platform that provides a plug-and-play modular system.
→ Aethir
Seed
AI
Singapore
aethir.com
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→ Antimetal
Pre-seed
AI
New York
antimetal.com
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→ Coinflow
pre seed
Industry 1
San Francisco, CA
coinflow.cash
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→ Feather
Pre-seed
Robotics
Palo Alto, CA
feather.dev
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→ Grass
Pre-seed
AI
San Francisco, CA
grass.io
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→ Neurophos
Seed
Photonics
Austin, TX
neurophos.com
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→ Octane Security
Pre-seed
AI
Delaware
octane.security
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→ Octra
Pre-seed
FHE
Switzerland
octra.org
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→ Prodia Labs
Pre-seed
AI
Atlanta
prodia.com
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