At a glance
Radical Ventures appears in 9 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2021, leading 4. Its most frequent sector in these rounds is AI & Infrastructure, and its most recent tracked deal was Mantic's $25M Seed round (Sep 18, 2026). It co-invests most often with Nvidia and Index Ventures. ValueAddVC also tracks 5 funds managed by Radical Ventures.
Strategy
Stages
SeedSeries ASeries B
Sectors
AIDeeptech
Geographies
USAToronto, Canada
Check size
$1M-$50MRecent changes
- Sep 18, 2026Sep 18, 2026Invested in Mantic (Seed, $25M) TechStartups
- Sep 17, 2026Sep 17, 2026Invested in Crusoe (Series F, $3.9B) TechCrunch
- Sep 7, 2026Sep 7, 2026Invested in Pixxel (Series C, $100M) Tech Startups
- Aug 25, 2026Aug 25, 2026Invested in Emerald AI (Series A, $150M) Emerald AI
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026Invested in Prime Intellect (Series A, $130M) TechCrunch
Earlier changes (9)
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026Invested in TwelveLabs (Series B, $100M) PYMNTS
- May 18, 2026May 18, 2026Invested in Decart (Growth, $300M) SiliconANGLE
- Aug 2025Aug 2025Follow-on: Invested in Cohere (Growth, $500M) Wikipedia
- Apr 23, 2025Apr 23, 2025New fund: Radical Ventures Venture Fund IV SEC EDGAR Form D
- Jun 28, 2024Jun 28, 2024New fund: Radical Ventures Growth Fund I SEC EDGAR Form D
- Sep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022New fund: Radical Ventures Opportunity Fund I SEC EDGAR Form D
- May 19, 2022May 19, 2022New fund: Radical Ventures Venture Fund III SEC EDGAR Form D
- Sep 2021Sep 2021Invested in Cohere (Series A, $40M) Wikipedia
- Jun 11, 2019Jun 11, 2019New fund: Radical Ventures Venture Fund II SEC EDGAR Form D
Funds
5| Fund | Vintage | Size | Strategy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radical Ventures Venture Fund IV | 2025 | — | Venture | As of Apr 23, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D |
| Radical Ventures Growth Fund I | 2024 | — | Growth | As of Aug 22, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D |
| Radical Ventures Opportunity Fund I | 2022 | — | Opportunity | As of Jun 26, 2023SEC EDGAR Form D |
| Radical Ventures Venture Fund III | 2022 | — | Venture | As of May 4, 2023SEC EDGAR Form D |
| Radical Ventures Venture Fund II | 2019 | — | Venture | As of Jun 26, 2023SEC EDGAR Form D |
Portfolio
8 totalRecent Investment Activity
9Track record: led 4 and participated in 5 of 9 tracked venture rounds · 7 in the last 12 months · led 2 Growth, 1 Seed, 1 Series A
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Mantic | Seed | Led | $25M | — | Radical VenturesLead | Pulse story |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Crusoe | Series F | Participated | $3.9B | $30.9B | TechCrunch | |
| Sep 7, 2026 | Pixxel | Series C | Participated | $100M | — | Pulse story | |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Emerald AI | Series A | Participated | $150M | $1.05 billion | Pulse story | |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Prime Intellect | Series A | Led | $130M | $1B | TechCrunch | |
| Jul 1, 2026 | TwelveLabs | Series B | Participated | $100M | — | PYMNTS | |
| May 18, 2026 | Decart | Growth | Led | $300M | ~$4B | SiliconANGLE | |
| Aug 2025 | Cohere | Growth | Led | $500M | $6.8B | Radical VenturesLeadiNovia CapitalLead | Wikipedia |
| Sep 2021 | Cohere | Series A | Participated | $40M | — | Wikipedia |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
5 · 63%
AI
1 · 13%
Space
1 · 13%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series A
3 · 33%
Growth
2 · 22%
Seed
1 · 11%
Series F
1 · 11%
Series C
1 · 11%
Series B
1 · 11%
Co-Investors
12Nvidia · 4 sharedIndex Ventures · 2 sharedTiger Global Management · 2 sharedSalesforce Ventures · 2 sharedAlumni Ventures · 1 sharedAMD Ventures · 1 sharedCisco Investments · 1 sharediNovia Capital · 1 sharedNexxus Capital · 1 sharedOracle · 1 sharedProsperity7 Ventures · 1 sharedSalesforce · 1 shared
Value Add Research
- Market & Trends · Sep 27, 2026Crusoe Series F: Inside the $30.9B AI Data Center Company
- AI & Technology · Aug 29, 2026World Labs Valuation 2026: Fei-Fei Li's AI Startup at a Reported $5B
- AI & Technology · Aug 26, 2026Emerald AI Valuation 2026: $150M Series A, $1.05B, 100GW Bet
- AI & Technology · Aug 26, 2026Generalist Valuation 2026: $3B Robotics Round Extension
- VC & Investing · Aug 21, 2026$250M at $1.5B — Muon Space Satellite Deal
- AI & Technology · Jul 23, 2026$65M Raised vs $1B Valuation — Essential AI vs Prime Intellect
- VC & Investing · Jul 15, 2026Cohere IPO 2026: $20B Talks, $240M ARR, No Filing Yet
- VC & Investing · Jul 12, 2026$65M Ollama Series B — AI Platform Layer (2026)
Latest Pulse
- Sep 28, 2026AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2BAMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup World Labs, a direct answer to Nvidia's own world-model push and its pending Hugging Face acquisition.→
- Sep 18, 2026Mantic Raises $25M For 'Superhuman' AI ForecastingLondon-based Mantic raised a $25 million seed led by Radical Ventures after its AI forecasting system competed with human forecasters at the 2026 Metaculus Cup, with Balderton, M12 and Thinking Machines Lab also participating.→
- Sep 17, 2026Crusoe Hits Initial Close On $3.9B Series F At $30.9BCrusoe's AI data-center buildout tripled its valuation to $30.9B in under a year, with Nvidia, Founders Fund and three sovereign-linked funds among the backers of the initial close.→
- Sep 17, 2026Crusoe Hits Initial Close On $3.9B Series F At $30.9BAI data-center builder Crusoe announced the initial close of an anticipated $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, funding the Abilene, Texas OpenAI campus and a new line of truck-deployable modular data centers.→
- Sep 8, 2026Anthropic Walks Away From Its Biggest Deal EverAnthropic terminated talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion after conducting due diligence, walking away from what would have been its largest acquisition to date.→
- Sep 7, 2026Pixxel Raises $100M, India's Biggest Space RoundPixxel raised $100 million in Series C funding, the largest single round ever for an Indian space startup, to expand its hyperspectral earth-imaging satellite constellation.→
- Aug 26, 2026Robotics Startup Generalist Hits $3B ValuationGeneralist, a two-year-old robot foundation-model startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, is raising a $200 million extension led by 8VC at a $3 billion valuation, 50% above its $2 billion mark from June.→
- Aug 5, 2026Jeff Dean Launches Discovery Loop With Google BackingJeff Dean left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI research startup automating scientific discovery, with Google staying on as a founding investor and cloud partner.→
- Aug 3, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M to Build Video SuperintelligenceTwelveLabs raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures to expand beyond video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning for video.→
- Jul 8, 2026Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Build Enterprise AI AgentsPrime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation led by Radical Ventures, giving enterprises compute and tooling to build their own AI agents without depending on a frontier lab's API.→
- Jul 4, 2026The Return of the $100M+ Vertical AI RoundTwelveLabs' $100M video-AI raise and Celea Therapeutics' $180M biotech round show growth-stage investors writing nine-figure checks into narrow, vertical AI applications again, not just horizontal infrastructure plays.→
- Jul 1, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS PartnershipTwelveLabs closed a $100 million Series B on July 1, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon participating directly, pushing total funding above $200 million. The company builds foundation models that understand video the way humans do, and is expanding from video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning, while committing AWS Trainium as its preferred inference chip.→
- Jun 18, 2026Generalist AI Raises $400M at a $2B Valuation to Build Robot Foundation ModelsGeneralist AI, a robotics-focused lab, raised $400 million led by Radical Ventures at a $2 billion valuation to build foundation models that let robots generalize across tasks. It's another giant check flowing into physical AI, where investors increasingly believe the next platform shift will happen in the real world, not the chat window.→
Radical Ventures FAQ
What companies has Radical Ventures invested in?
Radical Ventures' portfolio includes Mantic, Crusoe, Cohere, Pixxel, Emerald AI, Prime Intellect, and 2 more tracked companies.
Who does Radical Ventures co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, Radical Ventures most often invests alongside Nvidia (4 shared deals), Index Ventures (2 shared deals), Tiger Global Management (2 shared deals), Salesforce Ventures (2 shared deals), Alumni Ventures (1 shared deal).
Sources & methodologyshow
Where these figures come from
- Emerald AIprimary source1 fact
- SEC EDGAR Form Dprimary source1 fact
- SEC EDGAR Form Dprimary source1 fact
- SEC EDGAR Form Dprimary source1 fact
- SEC EDGAR Form Dprimary source1 fact
- SEC EDGAR Form Dprimary source1 fact
- SiliconANGLEmajor outlet1 fact
- TechCrunchmajor outlet1 fact
Figures are labelled Reported (a source states it), Estimated, Derived (computed from other facts) or Rumored (in talks / unconfirmed). Rumors never replace a confirmed figure. Each figure keeps its own as-of date; history is preserved rather than overwritten.