Buff Gold Ventures — VC Firm

Buff Gold Ventures is an investor firm with a focus on deep tech. The firm invests in university spin-outs and early-stage companies, particularly in areas such as AI, semiconductors, biotech, quantum technologies, drug discovery, climate change, and hardware-enabled data companies.

The team consists of Mark T. Lupa, General Partner, with a focus on deep tech, University of Colorado Boulder spin-outs, AI, semiconductors, and biotech; Tasso von Windheim, Associate, specializing in deep tech commercialization and science and engineering spin-outs; and Sally Hatcher, General Partner, whose areas include deep tech, quantum technologies, drug discovery, climate change, and early-stage hardware-enabled data companies.

Buff Gold Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Buff Gold Ventures has backed 16 companies in our records, including POLARIS ELECTRO-OPTICS, LongPath Technologies, SinusLogic™.

Buff Gold Ventures has recorded investments in 16 portfolio companies. These include Boco Bio, Codebreaker, Codebreaker Labs, Great Sky, LongPath Technologies, Mana Battery, Manifest, Manifest (Vitro3D), POLARIS ELECTRO-OPTICS, SinusLogic, Swept.ai, Think Bioscience, Tynt Technologies, and VitriVax. The firm has also recorded an investment in BUFF VENTURE FUND I, L.P.

Several of the recorded investments are at the seed stage. Great Sky operates in AI hardware, semiconductors, and deep-tech computing. Manifest (Vitro3D) is in advanced manufacturing, 3D printing, and machinery. Codebreaker Labs is also noted at the seed stage.