AI Infrastructure

Boldstart Fund VII is a $250 million venture capital fund raised by Boldstart Ventures, a New York-based inception-stage firm that has backed enterprise software founders before product, traction, or even a deck since 2010. The fund closed in July 2025 as the seventh in Boldstart's series, bringing total assets under management to over $1.1 billion. The fund was oversubscribed but deliberately capped at $250 million to preserve the firm's high-conviction, founder-first model. Fund VII targets founders building the autonomous enterprise — AI-native infrastructure, agentic workflows, intelligent data engines, AI security, and crypto-powered smart contract infrastructure. The fund leads pre-seed and seed rounds with initial checks from $500,000 to $15 million, specializing in deeply technical teams reimagining enterprise architecture from first principles. Follow-on capital can be deployed from the firm's $175 million Opportunities III vehicle for breakout portfolio companies. Over fifteen years and seven funds, Boldstart has backed enterprise companies including Snyk, BigID, Iterable, and Hyper, which have redefined developer security, observability, and SaaS infrastructure. With over $1.1 billion in AUM and a strict inception-only mandate, Fund VII continues Boldstart's conviction that the best time to back a transformative enterprise company is before the product exists, when technical vision is the sole criterion.

Boost VC Deep Tech Fund 4 is an $87 million pre-seed venture capital fund managed by Boost VC, the San Mateo-based firm co-founded by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams that specializes in investing in what it calls science fiction technology. The fund reached final close in September 2025, bringing total Boost VC assets under management to $300 million across its fund series and over 400 active portfolio companies. Fund 4 targets pre-seed founders building breakthrough technologies across aerospace, nuclear energy, robotics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, crypto, space, materials science, and ocean technology. The fund writes standardized $500,000 checks into pre-seed rounds at $3 million to $7 million valuations, leading approximately 70-plus companies per year. Boost pioneered the institutional deep-tech pre-seed model, becoming one of the first institutional investors in Bitcoin companies in 2013 before broadening to the full spectrum of science fiction technologies. Boost's first two vintage funds (2013 and 2016) delivered DPI of 2.15x and 4.35x respectively, on early bets in crypto and hard science. The firm's portfolio includes Coinbase (early investor), Deepgram ($1.3 billion valuation), Radiant Nuclear ($300 million raise), and Grid Aero ($20 million Series A). Portfolio companies have collectively raised over $5 billion in follow-on capital. Fund 4 is the latest and largest step in Boost's mission to accelerate the arrival of science fiction technologies.

Boost VC Fund I is a venture capital fund managed by Boost VC, the San Mateo-based pre-seed deep technology firm co-founded by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams. Launched with a 2016 vintage, Fund I represents the second institutional fund in Boost's series, following the firm's pioneering 2013-vintage early bitcoin vehicle. Boost's 2016 fund has delivered a DPI of 4.35x, making it one of the stronger-performing early institutional crypto and deep tech pre-seed vehicles of its era. The fund targets pre-seed founders building at the frontier of technology, applying Boost's signature $500,000 standard check into sub-$1 million rounds at $3 million to $7 million valuations. The investment mandate spans crypto and blockchain infrastructure, artificial intelligence, aerospace, robotics, biotechnology, and climate technology — the full spectrum of what Boost defines as science fiction investing. Boost has been one of the longest-running institutional pre-seed funds in the deep tech category, having backed over 400 portfolio companies across its fund series. Fund I's performance reflects Boost's early conviction in the deep tech ecosystem before institutional capital migrated en masse to the category. The firm's portfolio includes Coinbase, Deepgram, Radiant Nuclear, and Grid Aero, and Fund I's vintage and track record provided the foundation for the firm's subsequent funds, including the $87 million Boost VC Deep Tech Fund 4, which closed in September 2025 and brought total Boost AUM to $300 million across its fund platform.

About Nomadic Pear VCNomadic Pear VC is a co-investment special purpose vehicle (SPV) established by Pear VC (Pejman Mar Ventures), a San Francisco and Menlo Park-based early-stage venture capital firm. Pear VC was co-founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson and manages over $800 million in assets across five fund vehicles (Pear Ventures I through V). The firm focuses exclusively on pre-seed and seed stage investments in high-impact technology companies, partnering with founders from their earliest stages across software, artificial intelligence, deep tech, and digital infrastructure. Pear VC's broader portfolio includes DoorDash, Guardant Health, and Branch. Nomadic Pear VC was established in 2026 in connection with Pear VC's participation in the seed funding round of NomadicML Inc. (operating as Nomadic), a physical AI infrastructure company that raised an $8.4 million seed round in March 2026.This SPV represents Pear VC's co-investment vehicle for its seed-stage allocation in NomadicML Inc., an artificial intelligence infrastructure company founded by Harvard computer science graduates Mustafa Bal (CEO) and Varun Krishnan (CTO), formerly of Lyft and Snowflake respectively. The seed round was led by TQ Ventures at a $50 million post-money valuation, with co-investors including Pear VC, Google DeepMind co-founder Jeff Dean, and other strategic angels. NomadicML has built a platform that converts large-scale video archives generated by autonomous vehicle fleets and robotic systems into structured, searchable, AI-ready datasets using vision language models. The technology directly addresses a critical bottleneck in physical AI development: the inability to efficiently extract systematic learning from the vast volumes of real-world operational data generated by deployed autonomous systems. Pear VC's participation aligns with the firm's long-standing thesis of backing technical founders building infrastructure-level solutions for transformative technology markets.The NomadicML investment reflects a broader opportunity in physical AI infrastructure: as autonomous vehicle and robotics deployments scale globally, the ability to learn rapidly from operational data becomes a decisive competitive advantage for hardware and AI companies. Nomadic's early customers include Zoox (Amazon's autonomous vehicle subsidiary), Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Zendar, and Natix Network, validating the platform's utility for Tier 1 automotive and AV suppliers. The company won first prize at the Nvidia GTC pitch competition in February 2026, receiving strong validation from the autonomous systems and semiconductor community. As a co-investment SPV, Nomadic Pear VC does not have an independent fundraising target or disclosed fund size, as the vehicle is sized to Pear VC's specific allocation within the $8.4 million seed round. The investment thesis is consistent with Pear VC's conviction that physical AI training infrastructure represents one of the defining platform opportunities of the current technology cycle.