The Caltech Seed Fund
Invests in early-stage Caltech and JPL spinout companies, helping them move toward commercialization readiness.
The Caltech Seed Fund (CSF) is an internal venture fund operated by the California Institute of Technology's Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships (OTTCP) to support the commercialization of technologies developed at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages. The fund deploys approximately $1.5 million per year over a five-to-six-year investment hori…
Deploys SAFE equity investments of $100K–$500K into early-stage companies commercializing technology developed at Caltech or JPL, targeting a priced round within 12–18 months.
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