Stage FocusPre-Seed, Seed
GeographyUS
TypeUniversity Seed
Last Activity2025
Industry Focus
Industries
BiotechQuantumAdvanced MaterialsSpaceSemiconductorsPhotonicsAerospace
Technical BenchStrong
Investor TypeUniversity Fund
ExposureMostly DeepTech Investments
Bio
The Caltech Seed Fund is the venture arm of the California Institute of Technology, investing exclusively in startups spinning out of one of the world's most research-intensive universities. The fund spans Caltech's core strengths — physics, engineering, biology, chemistry — and benefits from proximity to JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which adds aerospace and space technology to the deal flow. ...
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