Seed to Series A stage venture capital firm founded by @luzhangvc. We invest in early-stage startups with revolutionary technologies.

Palo Alto, CA
Joined February 2015
Our portco @Vectara adapted Mockingbird V3 MM for #Semiconductors, raising factual consistency on engineering images from 0.29 to 0.45. Specialized #MultimodalAI helps engineers read diagrams and get more reliable answers. #AIResearch #EnterpriseAI 🔗:lnkd.in/ew2n2cY8
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Our portco @BrightAppSec wins three awards at @cyberdefensemag's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards and introduces STAR Fuzzer, an #AppSec tool that automatically finds software flaws and gives #DevSecOps teams clear evidence to fix them. Congrats to @bashvitz, @bararchy & team!
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Congrats to our portco @SubtleMedical on new partnership with @AmgMedtech in UK and Medical Horizons in Italy! Its #AI software enables #MRI scans up to 80% faster and #PET scans up to 75% faster, helping hospitals meet growing demand for diagnostic imaging. #RadiologyAI
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Featured in @JensenHuang's @NVIDIA GTC keynote, our portco @AgileRL_Inc outperformed five open-source RL frameworks with Arena. Its model came within 1.3 points of @AnthropicAI's Claude Opus 5.5, showing how smaller #AI models can compete. Congrats to @kumar_param927 & team!
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Our portco @Portal26ai introduced its Managed Intelligence Platform and Point2 Academy to bring #AIGovernance to small businesses. Together, they help IT providers identify #AIsecurity risks, manage #compliance, and offer ongoing #ManagedServices. 🔗:lnkd.in/gJ8xz7ci
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Our portco @ElemBio launched Cytos, combining #cellimaging, #geneactivity, and #proteinanalysis in a single run. This helps researchers better understand how cells respond to treatments and find promising targets for #DrugDiscovery. Congrats to @MollyminHe & team! #Multiomics
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Our portco @MojoVisionInc secured $24.4M in additional U.S. government funding, its largest award yet, to advance its #MicroLED platform. The funding will boost #domesticmanufacturing and strengthen the industrial base supporting #DefenseTech. Congrats to the Mojo Vision team!
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Big news for our portfolio company @otter_ai, featured in @TechCrunch for its $320M financing from @generalcatalyst. With 40M+ users and 1B+ meetings transcribed, this validates Otter's strong growth in #EnterpriseAI and continued innovation. Congrats to @Goopt & team!#VoiceAI
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Big step for our portco @Paradromics, partnering with @SiemensHealth to make #BCI implants more precise. Better imaging can help doctors target the right brain areas and improve surgical planning, bringing BCIs closer to patients. Congrats to @Matt_R_Angle & team! #Neurotech
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Our Venture Partner @chi_chao spoke at AI Vanguard Collective, #SFTechWeek and @TechCrunch Disrupt side event about what makes AI businesses last: outcome-driven SaaS, commercially viable #PhysicalAI and partnerships that open markets. Thanks to all the hosts! #VentureCapital
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Our portfolio company DeepReinforce launched Ornith-1.5-122B, an open model trained from scratch on 30T tokens that runs on a single @NVIDIA DGX. For teams, this means powerful #AI that runs fast on infrastructure they can control. Congrats to @JiweiLi1 and team! #EnterpriseAI
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Our portfolio company @Otter_ai ranks #1 on @huggingface's Open ASR Leaderboard, ahead of @Microsoft, @nvidia, @Zoom, and @IBM. As #EnterpriseAI moves beyond note-taking, the accuracy of what it hears shapes what it can do. Congratulations to @Goopt and the team!
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Our portfolio company @youdotcom brings live web intelligence to @cursor_ai and @papercliping. Developers can research current sources as they code, while agent teams gain web search with permissions and audit logs. Congratulations to @RichardSocher and team! #AgenticAI
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Congrats @AgileRL_Inc & @kumar_param927! With @nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, AgileRL hit 90.2% success on browser tasks vs 63.2% for @claudeai Opus 5.5. #ReinforcementLearning can tune #OpenModels to surpass frontier models at real-world computer use. 🔗: agilerl.com/blog/nemotron-3-…
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Our portco @youdotcom integrated with @composio and @simdotai to bring web search into #AIWorkflows. Composio Instant needs no #API key, while Sim helps agents turn research into team summaries and knowledge bases. Congrats to @RichardSocher and team! #AgenticAI #GenerativeAI
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Congrats to @BenColmanRD and the @DetectDeepfakes team on their latest collaboration with @SamsungSG. Bringing #DeepfakeDetection onto Galaxy devices with @Samsung Knox helps enterprises catch AI-generated voice, video, and image scams where they reach employees first. #Security
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Congrats to our portco @BrightAppSec & @EndorLabs on their partnership! By combining code #RiskDetection with threat verification, they’re helping developers focus on vulnerabilities that pose real risks, spend less time chasing false alarms, and fix issues faster. #CyberSecurity
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Our portco @loft_sh is extending @nvidia Run with isolated #Kubernetes environments, helping providers balance control, security, & GPU utilization. More teams can use the same #GPU infrastructure without sharing the same environment. Congrats @LukasGentele & team! #EnterpriseAI
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After its @nytimes feature on real-time neural communication, our portco @paradromics reports four years of stable neural recording. For patients who rely on BCIs, durable implants could mean fewer replacements and more reliable communication. Congrats @Matt_R_Angle & team! #BCI
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Major news for our portco @Proscia, the #1 vertical AI platform in pathology, which is being acquired by @Agilent. Trusted by 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, Proscia is advancing #DrugDiscovery, diagnostics, and #PrecisionMedicine. Congrats to @davidwest_irl and team!
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