Engine Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Engine Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts investing in Other, Climate / Energy. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 58 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 58 companies on record
- Partners
- 10 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Climate / Energy
- HQ
- Boston, Massachusetts
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-06
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
58+ companies
10 partners
Investment Thesis
Backs technical founders building industrial technologies that improve how the physical world works, including manufacturing and automation.
How Engine Ventures invests
Engine Ventures is a vc firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Climate / Energy.
Engine Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.
Engine Ventures has backed 58 companies in our records, including Oso Semiconductor, Resonant Link, Sync Computing.
Partners & Team
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Partner
Katie Rae
CEO
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (58)
Other
Oso Semiconductor
Revolutionizing Phased Array Antennas with Novel Chip Designs.
Resonant Link
Using wireless charging to unlock new opportunities in mobility and medicine.
Sync Computing
Optimizing the resources at the heart of every cloud computation.
Syzygy Plasmonics
Chemical manufacturing driven by light, enabling cheaper scalable on-site production.
Teradar
Creating a fundamentally new sensor to improve automotive safety.
Terragia
Unlocking sustainable fuels with better biology.
The Routing Company
Powering the future of public transit.
Terrestrial Bio
A microarray patch platform designed to bring next-generation therapies beyond the needle.
Trener Robotics
Bringing new intelligence to industrial robots.
VEIR
Using superconductors to revolutionize power delivery systems.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Climate / Energy — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Vinny Beranek, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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