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Pathbreaker Ventures

Pathbreaker Ventures portfolio

Pathbreaker Ventures has 9 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.

Website: pathbreakervc.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 9.

Deals, last 12 months: 1.

Rounds led: 1 of 11.

Capital in their rounds: $401.5M.

Latest deal: Reliable Robotics · Apr 21, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2015. It led 1 of the 11 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Reliable Robotics's $160M Series B+ round in April 2026, alongside Nimble Partners, What If Ventures, Presidio Ventures and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Climate and energy (3) and Robotics and hardware (2). It has co-invested with Lightspeed, Eclipse and Y Combinator, most often Lightspeed (3 rounds).

About Pathbreaker Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: San Francisco, US.

Founded: 2015.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech, Hardware, Robotics.

Check size: $250K to $1M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 58.

Exits: 1.

Rounds led: 0.

What Pathbreaker Ventures invests in

Pathbreaker Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
RReliable Robotics	Series B+ · $160M	Apr 21, 2026	Nimble Partners (lead), What If Ventures, Presidio Ventures +6
AAntares	Seed · $8M	Oct 31, 2023	Uncommon Capital, Rogue Ventures, Caffeinated Capital +2
RReliable Robotics	Series B+ · $100M	Oct 14, 2021	Coatue (lead), Eclipse, Teamworthy Ventures +1
IIron Ox	Series B+ · $50M	Sep 22, 2021	Crosslink Capital, R7 Partners, Y Combinator +6
SSafely You	Series A · $20M	Sep 1, 2021	Foundation Capital, Eclipse (lead), Anorak Ventures +6
IIron Ox	Series B+ · $20M · lead	Sep 9, 2020	Crosslink Capital, R7 Partners, Y Combinator +4
RReliable Robotics	Series B+ · $25M	Aug 28, 2020	Eclipse (lead), Teamworthy Ventures, Lightspeed
VVergeSense	Series A · $9M	May 21, 2020	West, Y Combinator, Bolt +4

How Pathbreaker Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	5 45%	$355M
Series A	4 36%	$37M
Seed	2 18%	$9.5M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2017	1 9%	undisclosed
2018	1 9%	$1.5M
2020	4 36%	$62M
2021	3 27%	$170M
2023	1 9%	$8M
2026	1 9%	$160M

Pathbreaker Ventures portfolio companies

RReliable Robotics$160MSeries B+ · Apr 2026
AAntares$8MSeed · Oct 2023
IIron Ox$50MSeries B+ · Sep 2021
SSafely You$20MSeries A · Sep 2021
VVergeSense$9MSeries A · May 2020
EEsper$8MSeries A · Feb 2020
NnTopologySeries A · Nov 2017
PParkadebacker
GGeneral Galacticbacker

Company	Round with Pathbreaker Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
RReliable Robotics Robotics and hardware	Apr 21, 2026 Series B+ · $160M	$400M	Oct 20, 2026 Series B+
AAntares Climate and energy	Oct 31, 2023 Seed · $8M	$949M	Jul 27, 2026 Series B+
IIron Ox Robotics and hardware	Sep 22, 2021 Series B+ · $50M	$70M	Sep 22, 2021 Series B+
SSafely You Health and bio	Sep 1, 2021 Series A · $20M	$63.6M	Feb 14, 2025 Series B+
VVergeSense Data and analytics	May 21, 2020 Series A · $9M	$70.5M	Sep 12, 2025 Series B+
EEsper Fintech	Feb 1, 2020 Series A · $8M	$72M	Oct 1, 2021 Series B+
NnTopology Manufacturing and industrial	Nov 30, 2017 Series A	$125M	Nov 18, 2021 Series B+
PParkade Fintech	backer	$10M	May 21, 2025 Series A
GGeneral Galactic Climate and energy	backer	$8M	Nov 12, 2024 Seed

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Climate and energy).

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