Q Venture Partners

Q Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hong Kong. Specializing in pre-seed through series B investments, the firm focuses on start-ups in health & medical, consumer & home, vehicle, enterprise & industrial, and enabling technologies sectors. With offices in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, Q Venture Partners invests in global IoT and technology startups, offering engineering and manufacturing expertise to help them explore Asian markets, including China. The firm's portfolio includes companies like Matrix Industries, a thermoelectric energy harvesting startup, and Catalia Health, which develops personal AI-enabled robots for medication adherence.

Itaru Ueda

Partner

21 past transactions

Lofelt

Series A in 2017
Lofelt GmbH designs develops, and manufactures a music bracelet that works alongside headphones. The company offers haptic technology device for use in gaming, AR, VR, automobile, consumer electronics, toys, medical, and entertainment industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Nomiku

Venture Round in 2016
Nomiku is a San Francisco-based startup born after one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history for its inaugural Nomiku Immersion Circulator. Now shipping its second product--the smallest and most powerful sous vide device with a companion app--thousands of units can be found in homes and restaurants all over the world. Nomiku believes that everyone should be able to make the best food possible, every day of their lives. Everyone's a great cook, they just need the right tools.

Millibatt, Inc

Venture Round in 2017
Millibatt, Inc. manufactures customized rechargeable batteries for consumer electronics devices. It offers lithium-ion batteries for small-scale applications. The company serves consumer electronic manufacturers. Millibatt, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Arevo

Venture Round in 2017
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

Digital Alloys

Venture Round in 2017
Digital Alloys develops high-speed, multi-metal additive manufacturing systems that print production quality parts, in almost any metal, at a fraction of the cost of other systems, making metal 3D metal printing economical for a greatly expanded mix of applications. Digital Alloys metal 3D printers have the unique ability to mix multiple metals in a solid part, enabling customers to push the limits of design and create new products with optimized thermal, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical properties. It was formed in January 2017 as a spinout from the NVLabs division of New Valence Robotics, Inc. (NVBOTS). The company is led by an experienced management team, and backed by Khosla Ventures. Digital Alloys is based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Spect

Seed Round in 2017
Vision Disease cause innumerable cases of preventable blindness globally - 415 million diabetic patients worldwide are susceptible to Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), Glaucoma, and more. Current screening protocols for vision disease require ophthalmologists to manually diagnose patients through visual assessment of the fundus. Given the large number of diabetes patients in various communities, this process is expensive, inefficient, and an undue burden on eye clinics.

Ambiq Micro

Series E in 2018
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.

Catalia Health

Seed Round in 2017
Catalia Health brings together artificial intelligence, psychology, and medicine to deliver lasting change. We create effective patient engagement and generate unique data of value to our customers. Our cloud-based platform delivers unique conversations to patients to help address their ongoing healthcare issues in an effective way. These messages are delivered through mobile apps, a web interface, and our uniquely engaging (and patented) interactive robotic coach.

Preteckt

Seed Round in 2018
Preteckt provides PaaS to connected and autonomous vehicles and fleets by peering through vehicle data and leveraging proprietary AI, deep learning, and machine learning algorithms. Preteckt’s architecture has been designed specifically to handle automotive data and provides a 100x speed advantage over typical Big Data solutions allowing for real-time zero false-positives. The architecture and machine learning algorithms allow for immediate scaling of the SaaS solution to work with existing connected vehicles and fleets Preteckt provides machine learning solution for automotive prognostics.

Elementary Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Elementary Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for human assistance. It offers robots to automate QA and traceability for AI-assisted manufacturing. The company’s robots are also used to track the stages of assembly across production lines. It serves electronics, automotive, medical, and consumer packaged goods and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Pasadena, California with additional offices in Mexico and Chicago.

Matrix Industries

Venture Round in 2017
MATRIX Industries, Inc. manufactures thermoelectric products and components for energy harvesting needs to enable battery life. It offers MATRIX PowerWatch, a body heat-powered smartwatch that needs no charging; and Juno, a beverage chiller. The company also provides kits and components, such as energy harvesting boost converter and thermoelectric energy harvester. The company sells its products through distributors. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was formerly known as Silicium Energy, Inc. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

SmartEar

Venture Round in 2017
SmartEar is building out the world’s first proprietary smart ear technology platform that will revolutionize the ear. The magic behind the SmartEar is the device and its integration into the SmartEar artificial intelligence (AI) hearing platform that will manage your ears. SmartEar will be a cool comfortable device that can be kept in your ear all day and night, that will protect and manage your auditory environment, enhance the way you interact with your smart phone and other devices, while monitoring your health and fitness in a safe and seamless way.

Spry Health

Series A in 2017
Spry Health, Inc. develops transformative digital health solutions. It offers a clinical-grade wearable and disease management platform that enhances timely care to chronically ill patients with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization, and decrease spending by healthcare organizations. Spry Health, Inc. was formerly known as Echo Labs, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Swipii

Venture Round in 2019
Swipii Labs Ltd. operates a small business customer loyalty and marketing platform. The company offers loyalty programs and marketing tools to grow business; allows small businesses to boost online reviews and gain new customers, and track customer data; and provides digital loyalty, email marketing, and loyalty tech solutions. It also allows customers to collect points; and earn rewards. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Elementary Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Elementary Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for human assistance. It offers robots to automate QA and traceability for AI-assisted manufacturing. The company’s robots are also used to track the stages of assembly across production lines. It serves electronics, automotive, medical, and consumer packaged goods and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Pasadena, California with additional offices in Mexico and Chicago.

Ambiq Micro

Series D in 2018
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.

StrongArm Tech

Series A in 2017
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Calyx

Seed Round in 2018
Calyx is a material science and IoT Platform company that harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals in industrial safety, healthcare, transportation, and food markets. The company, which was founded in 2014, is formerly known as BioInspira and has rebranded as Calyx in 2019.

Ambiq Micro

Venture Round in 2018
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.

zGlue

Series A in 2019
zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric interposer, and manufacturing partnerships with world-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering a significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs.