Glasswing Ventures, a Boston, MA-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of intelligent enterprise and frontier technology startups, closed Fund II, at $158M.
The fund, which received support from existing and new Limited Partners, is investing at the seed stage with a focus on AI-enabled early-stage enterprise and security startups and at even earlier stages with its Frontier Tech pre-seed program.
Co-founded by Rudina Seseri and Rick Grinnell, Glasswing Ventures has a disciplined, thesis-driven approach to investing in critical technologies. Within its Intelligent Connect Thesis, Smart Data Infrastructure, Cognitive Human Augmentation across functions, and Intelligent Verticals, such as supply chain, have a long window of opportunity with strong demand and large budgets. Within the Intelligent Protect Thesis, Cyber-Physical convergence, Data Security, Privacy and Compliance, and Coordinated Defense are technology focus areas given the threats and exploits that continue to emerge and evolve in the market.
The firm is a first investor in 80% of companies across its portfolios and is the first institutional investor in 100% of portfolio companies.
Glasswing Ventures has expanded to 15, while its network of over 50 advisors are technologists, AI visionaries, successful entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 executives supporting the firm and its startup founders on an exclusive basis.
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08/09/2022