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Embark Ventures

Embark Ventures portfolio

Embark Ventures has 4 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: embark.vc.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 4.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $118M.

Latest deal: SafeAI · Dec 14, 2022.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, US, founded in 2017. Its most recent investment on record is SafeAI's $38M Series B+ round in December 2022, alongside Brick & Mortar Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Builders VC and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Robotics and hardware (2) and Manufacturing and industrial (2). It has co-invested with Brick & Mortar Ventures, Foundamental and Builders VC, most often Brick & Mortar Ventures (3 rounds).

About Embark Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, US.

Founded: 2017.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed.

Sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Healthtech, New Materials, Robotics, Semiconductors.

Leads rounds: No.

What Embark Ventures invests in

Embark Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
SSafeAI	Series B+ · $38M	Dec 14, 2022	Brick & Mortar Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Builders VC +6
PParallel Systems	Series A · $50M	Jan 24, 2022	Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Anthos Capital (lead)
SSafeAI	Series A · $21M	Jun 1, 2021	Obayashi Corporation, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Builders VC (lead) +6
OOptimal Dynamics	Series A	May 13, 2021	The Westly Group, John Larkin, Fitz Gate Ventures +4
OOptimal Dynamics	Seed · $4M	Jul 7, 2020	nvp capital, Ian McHenry, The Westly Group +3
SSafeAI	Seed · $5M	Jun 18, 2019	Brick & Mortar Ventures, Autotech Ventures (lead), Forge Innovation & Ventures

How Embark Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	3 50%	$71M
Seed	2 33%	$9M
Series B+	1 17%	$38M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2019	1 17%	$5M
2020	1 17%	$4M
2021	2 33%	$21M
2022	2 33%	$88M

Embark Ventures portfolio companies

SSafeAI$38MSeries B+ · Dec 2022
PParallel Systems$50MSeries A · Jan 2022
OOptimal DynamicsSeries A · May 2021
IIzote Biosciencesbacker

Company	Round with Embark Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
SSafeAI Robotics and hardware	Dec 14, 2022 Series B+ · $38M	$64M	Dec 14, 2022 Series B+
PParallel Systems Robotics and hardware	Jan 24, 2022 Series A · $50M	$188M	Oct 7, 2026 Series B+
OOptimal Dynamics Data and analytics	May 13, 2021 Series A	$77M	Apr 14, 2026 Series B+
IIzote Biosciences Health and bio	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

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

How this is counted

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

Share is of the 6 rounds on Recent Funding that name Embark 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 Embark Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/embark-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.