Piva Capital

Piva Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on investing in visionary entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies that develop innovative software and hardware solutions for the industrial and energy sectors. Piva Capital targets a diverse range of industries, including specialty chemicals, new materials, energy and mobility, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, robotics, automation, supply chain logistics, and cleantech. By concentrating on these areas, Piva Capital aims to support disruptive companies that contribute to energy transition and decarbonization efforts across North America and Europe.

Steven F. Foster

Venture Partner

Roxanne Tully

Principal

16 past transactions

Alloy Enterprises

Series A in 2023
Alloy Enterprises operates as industry disruptors looking to tackle inefficiencies in conventional manufacturing. The company is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Xage Security

Series B in 2022
Xage is a global leader in zero trust access and protection on a mission to pioneer a secure tomorrow. Control access and prevent attacks in the cloud, in the data center, at the remote operational edge anywhere on Earth, and even in orbit with the Xage Fabric Platform. Xage is easy to manage and can be deployed in a day, giving users easy and secure access to the assets they need from anywhere, while preventing advanced adversaries and insider threats at every stage of the attack chain. Learn why organizations like the U.S. Space Force, PETRONAS, and Kinder Morgan choose Xage at xage.com.

Oobli

Series B in 2022
Joywell Foods is developing the first healthy, protein sweeteners. Derived from exotic plants, protein sweeteners are rare compounds that provide an amazing taste without the calories. These proteins, produced through fermentation, have no glycemic impact and do not affect the gut microbiome. The company has received regulatory approvals, including FDA "no questions" letters and GRAS status for multiple proteins

Anuvia Plant Nutrients

Series D in 2022
AnuAnuvia Plant Nutrients is an agricultural technology company developing a product to replace traditional fertilizer. The company manufactures high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawn care industries from recycled organic material, such as livestock waste, food waste, or other plant-based materials. Anuvia Plant Nutrients was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Winter Garden, FL.

Menlo Micro

Series C in 2022
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Plantible Foods

Series A in 2021
Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company producing sustainable plant-based protein to optimize the food industry. The company develops a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform to allow food companies to innovate while optimizing costs and delivering products with improved taste, texture, health, and environmental footprint.

Solidia

Venture Round in 2021
Solidia Technologies enables next generation products that offer superior performance while significantly minimizing environmental impact. Solidia is an advanced materials company, focusing on developing scalable solutions for the world of building and construction materials. Their technology enables the design of next generation products made by low energy processes that utilize waste materials and consume CO2. The products offer superior performance and value when compared to cement, concrete and stone while significantly minimizing environmental impact.

Malta

Series B in 2021
Malta is a provider of industrial-grade, grid-scale energy storage solutions. The Malta system collects and stores inexpensive and abundant renewable and fossil energy, and dispatches it as needed to the grid to enable the affordable and reliable delivery of electricity on demand. Incubated at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google [x]), and funded by leading venture capital and commercial power industry companies

Anuvia Plant Nutrients

Series C in 2021
AnuAnuvia Plant Nutrients is an agricultural technology company developing a product to replace traditional fertilizer. The company manufactures high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawn care industries from recycled organic material, such as livestock waste, food waste, or other plant-based materials. Anuvia Plant Nutrients was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Winter Garden, FL.

Boston Metal

Series B in 2021
Boston Metal is a metallurgy company developing technology to reduce the carbon footprint of steel production. The company provides industrial-scale, metal production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower-cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun out of MIT in 2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA.

Sense Photonics

Series A in 2020
Sense Photonics is an RTP high technology company that enables reliable, modular, and configurable 3D sensing. The company produces advanced LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for an autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation markets. Their core technology protected by over 200 patents enables a simple, high-performance, solid-state solution with no moving parts that can uniquely meet the rigorous performance, reliability and cost requirements for automotive and industrial applications. Sense Photonics was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Menlo Micro

Series B in 2020
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Oobli

Series A in 2020
Joywell Foods is developing the first healthy, protein sweeteners. Derived from exotic plants, protein sweeteners are rare compounds that provide an amazing taste without the calories. These proteins, produced through fermentation, have no glycemic impact and do not affect the gut microbiome. The company has received regulatory approvals, including FDA "no questions" letters and GRAS status for multiple proteins

Urbint

Series B in 2020
Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen. Leveraging real-world data and artificial intelligence, Urbint’s software delivers a clear picture of risk up to a week in advance, so decision-makers can take action in the right place, at the right time, before an incident occurs. Many of the largest energy and infrastructure companies in North America trust Urbint to protect their workers, assets, and the communities they serve.

Velo3D

Series D in 2020
Velo3D is a digital manufacturing company using a Sapphire 3D production printer and flow print preparation software to print 3D metals. Bringing together an integrated solution of software, hardware, and process-control innovation, Velo3D introduced the first SupportFree capability for 3D metal printing. This enables unlimited design innovation by reducing the need for support structures in metal additive manufacturing. The company’s Sapphire system is built with a semiconductor mindset on quality assurance, ensuring repeatability and dependability throughout serial manufacturing.

Worlds

Series A in 2020
Worlds is an information technology company that offers an AI platform for real-world automation. It features a new 4D infrastructure for measuring, analyzing, and building AI-based automation directly into the ground floor operations of supply chain companies. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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