Anorak Ventures has 6 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

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It is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, US, founded in 2016. It led 1 of the 5 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Nox Metals's $4.6M Pre-seed round in September 2025, which it led. By category, its portfolio leans toward Robotics and hardware (3) and Climate and energy (3). It has co-invested with 7percent Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures and Sum Ventures, most often 7percent Ventures (2 rounds).

About Anorak Ventures

What Anorak Ventures invests in

• Robotics and hardware · 3 · 50%
• Climate and energy · 3 · 50%
• Manufacturing and industrial · 2 · 33%
• Defense and security · 1 · 17%
• Commerce and retail · 1 · 17%
• Health and bio · 1 · 17%
• Sales and marketing · 1 · 17%
• Media and content · 1 · 17%

Anorak Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
NNox Metals	Pre-seed · $4.6M · lead	Sep 23, 2025	none named
IIrrigreen	Seed · $15M	Mar 29, 2023	Echo River Capital, MFV Partners, Tamiami Angel Funds +4
SSafely You	Series A · $20M	Sep 1, 2021	Foundation Capital, Pathbreaker Ventures, Eclipse (lead) +6
GGridware	Seed · $5.3M	May 24, 2021	Soma Capital, Bragiel Brothers, Y Combinator +4
RRestream	Series A · $50M	Aug 1, 2020	Silverton Partners, Iskra Ventures, Sapphire Ventures (lead) +6

How Anorak Ventures invests

Anorak Ventures portfolio companies

• NNox Metals$4.6MPre-seed · Sep 2025
• IIrrigreen$15MSeed · Mar 2023
• SSafely You$20MSeries A · Sep 2021
• GGridware$5.3MSeed · May 2021
• RRestream$50MSeries A · Aug 2020
• AAdept materialsbacker

Most frequent co-investors

• 77percent Ventures2 shared rounds · last Sep 1, 2021
• LLiquid 2 Ventures2 shared rounds · last May 24, 2021
• SSum Ventures1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• EEcho River Capital1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• MMFV Partners1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• TTamiami Angel Funds1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• CCatalyst Innovation Lab1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• SSage Hill Capital1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• UUlu Ventures1 shared round · last Mar 29, 2023
• FFoundation Capital1 shared round · last Sep 1, 2021
• EEclipse1 shared round · last Sep 1, 2021
• FFounders Fund1 shared round · last Sep 1, 2021

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• VVXI Capital7 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• AActive Impact Investments5 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• DDecisive Point5 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• OOverlap Holdings5 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Robotics and hardware).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 5 rounds on Recent Funding that name Anorak Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Anorak Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/anorak-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.