Asimov Ventures

Asimov Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City and Seattle. Asimov Ventures invests in their areas of expertise: 3D Printing and Robotics. When Asimov Ventures is lucky enough to meet founders in relentless pursuit of opportunity, their hope is that they will choose them as a partner.

Alan Marshall Meckler

Chairman and CEO

31 past transactions

Arka

Venture Round in 2020
Arka is a custom packaging solutions company that enables its customers to source packaging or fulfillment online. It offers packaging services which are customized to its clients’ needs and include proofing and production paperwork. The company operates and maintains a network of worldwide package manufacturers and fulfillment centers, and communicates with them on behalf of their customers. Its client portfolio includes e-commerce and D2C businesses locally and internationally. Founded in 2015, Arka is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Particle3D

Seed Round in 2020
Particle3D (P3D) is a Danish biomedical engineering company founded in 2017. The company is based on more than 3 years of research and is currently developing patient-fitted bone replacement implants from natural materials through 3D printing. The mission is to revolutionize the treatment of craniofacial patients by providing state of the art solutions that will optimize the value chain for health care professionals, the health care system and most importantly the patients. Benefits of the technology include better aesthetic and functional outcomes for the patients, faster recovery and fewer complications, less complicated surgery and higher hospital productivity. The company aims at setting new standards in craniofacial reconstruction and will play a major role in a market segment with a very interesting commercial potential.

Arka

Seed Round in 2020
Arka is a custom packaging solutions company that enables its customers to source packaging or fulfillment online. It offers packaging services which are customized to its clients’ needs and include proofing and production paperwork. The company operates and maintains a network of worldwide package manufacturers and fulfillment centers, and communicates with them on behalf of their customers. Its client portfolio includes e-commerce and D2C businesses locally and internationally. Founded in 2015, Arka is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fabric8Labs

Convertible Note in 2016
Fabric8Labs, Inc develops and manufactures non-thermal metal 3D printer. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in La Jolla, California.

OsseoPrint 3D

Grant in 2019
Osseo Print 3D develops and provides technology for 3D printing of bioabsorbable, implantable, and patient-specific bone scaffolds for dental, orthopedic, plastic, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgery. The company is based in Millburn, New Jersey.

MODit 3D Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
MODit provides smart, automated quality control for manufacturing. MODit's mass-deployable 3D scanning systems and cloud platform increase yields and streamline quality communication across the supply chain.

Obsess, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Obsess is reinventing the e-commerce experience on mobile to make it visual, interactive and contextual. To replace today's flat and tedious grid-of-thumbnails online shopping interface that hasn't changed in 25 years when it was created by Amazon to sell books. The Obsess cloud platform enables brands and retailers to run highly engaging and branded online virtual stores on their sites.

King Children

Venture Round in 2020
King Children operates as a 3D custom-printed eyewear company. Through their proprietary technology, their customers can conduct face scans and virtually try-on an ever expanding range of frame designs, colors, and lenses right from their phones. With exact measurements and confirmed order selections in hand, they then print and ship these custom glasses directly to their doors. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Addivation Medical

Seed Round in 2020
Addivation Medical, LLC engages in the development and commercialization of additive manufactured (3D printed) off the shelf and patient specific product solutions for use in treating degenerative, trauma, and deformity spinal conditions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Kadena LLC

Funding Round in 2018
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.

Dog Parker, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Dog Parker, Inc., doing business as DogSpot, develops and operates a network of smart sidewalk sanctuaries for dogs outside of places where dogs are not allowed in the United States. Its DogSpots are placed on sidewalks outside of various businesses, such as grocery stores, coffee shops, laundromats, nail salons, post offices, drug stores, cafes, restaurants, and museums that provide a safe and cozy home for dogs. The company also offers a mobile app that allows users to access the entire network of DogSpots and monitor their dog in real-time. Dog Parker, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Kadena LLC

Funding Round in 2018
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.

Additive Orthopaedics

Seed Round in 2016
Additive Orthopaedics, LLC develops orthopaedic devices. Its products include additive orthopaedics hammertoe system, additive orthopaedics wedge system, additive orthopaedics bunion system, additive orthopaedics plate/wedge combinations, biologics and tissue offering, and custom 3D printed implants. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Little Silver, New Jersey.

Ghost Robotics Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Robots That Feel the World ​ Ghost Robotics™ is revolutionizing legged robotics and the market for highly-agile and fast tele-operated and autonomous unmanned ground drones for military, homeland, intel, and enterprise markets. Our quadrupedal UGVs (Q-UGVs) are unstoppable.

ViaBot

Pre Seed Round in 2017
ViaBot Inc. develops an autonomous outdoor robot for businesses. The company offers an autonomous multi-functional robot that takes care of multiple outdoor commercial tasks, such as sweeping, lawn mowing, security, parking lot, walkway, courtyard, or other outside venue. It offers benefits, such as modular technology, long runtime, scheduling, 24/7 monitoring, different modes, 24/7 capability, and constant updates. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wiivv Wearables Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Wiivv Wearables Inc., a bionics company, creates 3D printed and custom gear using 3D-mapping technology accessible from a smartphone. The company offers insoles for running shoes, boots, casual shoes, dress shoes, flats, and narrow toed boots. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with a manufacturing research and development center in San Diego, California.

Kadena LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.

Arfona

Seed Round in 2017
Arfona's philosophy is 3D manufacturing shouldn't be complicated, nor should it be cost prohibitive. Arfona manufactures the r.Pod Desktop 3D Printer, the world's first printer optimized for Valplast partial dentures and appliances. The printer allows dental professionals to fabricate restorations in half the time and for half the cost. Founded in 2016 by a group of dental technicians and 3D printing enthusiasts, Arfona is focused on digitizing aspects of the dental lab in which traditional techniques are still being used.

Kiwi Campus

Seed Round in 2019
Kiwi Campus, often referred to as Kiwi, is an on demand convenience service that delivers what you need, day or night. Our Kiwibots - cute little delivery robots - deliver right up to your doorstep. Kiwibot is making deliveries more affordable and accessible for communities. We're helping people with deliveries that are cheaper and faster than ever before. Kiwibots mesh seamlessly within the fabric of our sidewalks and empower anyone to get anything they want in under 30 minutes.

Metamason, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Metamason, Inc. develops personalized respiratory devices through 3D scanning and printing. It offers continuous positive airway pressure masks. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Wiivv Wearables Inc.

Series A in 2017
Wiivv Wearables Inc., a bionics company, creates 3D printed and custom gear using 3D-mapping technology accessible from a smartphone. The company offers insoles for running shoes, boots, casual shoes, dress shoes, flats, and narrow toed boots. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with a manufacturing research and development center in San Diego, California.

CleverPet

Seed Round in 2015
CleverPet LLC provides an electronic game console for dogs. Its product engages dogs with light, sound, and touch using their food. The company also offers CleverPet app that tracks pet’s progress and food intake, and notifies when pets learn new puzzles. CleverPet LLC was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Cheeky

Seed Round in 2019
Cheeky is making custom night guards affordable to all teeth grinders. Subscribers will receive a new night guard every three months starting at $15 a month.

ILLUSIO IMAGING

Seed Round in 2016
Illusio is a developer of an augmented reality imaging tool designed to create the ideal size and shape for every possible situation.The company's tool provides patients with augmented reality imagery that reveals how the results of breast augmentation surgery will look on their own bodies, enabling surgeons and patients to have a visual discussion about all of the possible outcomes of breast augmentation.

Dog Parker, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Dog Parker, Inc., doing business as DogSpot, develops and operates a network of smart sidewalk sanctuaries for dogs outside of places where dogs are not allowed in the United States. Its DogSpots are placed on sidewalks outside of various businesses, such as grocery stores, coffee shops, laundromats, nail salons, post offices, drug stores, cafes, restaurants, and museums that provide a safe and cozy home for dogs. The company also offers a mobile app that allows users to access the entire network of DogSpots and monitor their dog in real-time. Dog Parker, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Collider

Seed Round in 2015
Collider, Inc. designs and manufactures printers, under the name Orchid. Its product has applications in creation of silicones, rubber, plastics, and metal stands. Collider, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Additive Orthopaedics

Series B in 2018
Additive Orthopaedics, LLC develops orthopaedic devices. Its products include additive orthopaedics hammertoe system, additive orthopaedics wedge system, additive orthopaedics bunion system, additive orthopaedics plate/wedge combinations, biologics and tissue offering, and custom 3D printed implants. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Little Silver, New Jersey.

Additive Orthopaedics

Seed Round in 2015
Additive Orthopaedics, LLC develops orthopaedic devices. Its products include additive orthopaedics hammertoe system, additive orthopaedics wedge system, additive orthopaedics bunion system, additive orthopaedics plate/wedge combinations, biologics and tissue offering, and custom 3D printed implants. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Little Silver, New Jersey.

Sadako Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
SADAKO TECHNOLOGIES, S.L. develops and provides artificial intelligence based software solutions and devices for sorting garbage. The company's solution includes deep learning software on a robot suction cup for waste processing. The company’s solution also uses proprietary algorithms that connect to a multi-layer neural network system available in cloud. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.

Wiivv Wearables Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Wiivv Wearables Inc., a bionics company, creates 3D printed and custom gear using 3D-mapping technology accessible from a smartphone. The company offers insoles for running shoes, boots, casual shoes, dress shoes, flats, and narrow toed boots. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with a manufacturing research and development center in San Diego, California.