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Applied Ventures

Applied Ventures portfolio

Applied Ventures has 6 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.

Website: appliedventures.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 6.

Deals, last 12 months: 1.

Rounds led: 1 of 2.

Capital in their rounds: $155M.

Latest deal: Salience Labs · Oct 14, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Santa Clara, US, founded in 2005. It led 1 of the 2 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Salience Labs's $125M Series B+ round in October 2026, alongside Hudson River Trading, Bullhound Capital, Cambridge Innovation Capital and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward AI infrastructure and compute (4) and Robotics and hardware (4). It has co-invested with Oxford Science Enterprises, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Intel Capital, most often Oxford Science Enterprises (2 rounds).

About Applied Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Santa Clara, US.

Founded: 2005.

Stages: Seed, Series A, Late Stage.

Sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Cleantech, Energy, Hardware, Medical Devices, New Materials, SaaS, Semiconductors.

Check size: $500K to $3M.

What Applied Ventures invests in

How Applied Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	1 50%	$125M
Series A	1 50%	$30M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2025	1 50%	$30M
2026	1 50%	$125M

Applied Ventures portfolio companies

SSalience Labs$125MSeries B+ · Oct 2026
RRescalebacker
LLightspeed Photonicsbacker
AAvegantbacker
TTessolvebacker
AAlbert Inventbacker

Company	Round with Applied Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
SSalience Labs AI infrastructure and compute	Oct 14, 2026 Series B+ · $125M	$166.5M	Oct 14, 2026 Series B+
RRescale AI infrastructure and compute	backer	$203.4M	Oct 11, 2025 Series B+
LLightspeed Photonics AI infrastructure and compute	backer	undisclosed	—
AAvegant Robotics and hardware	backer	undisclosed	—
TTessolve AI infrastructure and compute	backer	$75M	Oct 12, 2026 Series B+
AAlbert Invent Health and bio	backer	$30.5M	Oct 14, 2026 Series B+

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (AI infrastructure and compute).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Applied 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 Applied Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/applied-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.