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NextFab Ventures

VC
Philadelphia, PAWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $2.0M

Portfolio

32+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2026Investments in last 12 months: 6

Investment Thesis

Investing in infrastructure technology startups that leverage advanced manufacturing and nanotechnology.

Meet the Team

TR

Todor Raykov

Managing Partner

venture capital
hard-tech startups
DE

Dr. Evan Malone

President

hard-tech
seed financing
product development support

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
AI / ML
Developer Tools
Consumer

Does Not Invest In

EdTech
Retail

Portfolio Companies (32)

2026

SU

Sunfish

Robotics·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Sunfish is a marine robotics hardware and software company that is developing a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for exploration and inspection.

2025

BL

Bluesonde

Clean Tech·Pre-Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Bluesonde equips oceans, lakes, and industrial waterways with continuous, real-time water intelligence, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable impact across the blue economy.

DO

Dottir Labs

Clean Tech·Pre-Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Dottir Labs is turning real-time chemical sensing into a powerful tool for industry, bringing lab-grade analysis out of the lab and into the flow to power smarter, faster, more sustainable operations.

PR

Precision Livestock Technologies

Ag Tech·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

PLT uses machine vision and artificial intelligence to help livestock producers optimize and automate their operations.

ES

Essential Aero

Robotics·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Developers of a fully autonomous debris-removal robot engineered for airport environments, featuring advanced collision and obstacle avoidance.

GE

GelTech Labs

Robotics·Pre-Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

GelTech Labs is building the first automated platform for hydrogel testing, a critical workflow that underpins more than $30 billion in global products across medicine, wound healing, cosmetics, hygiene, agriculture, and food.

2024

DA

Daxo Robotics

Robotics·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Daxo scalably automates high cost, high mix, high dexterity tasks that have been untouched by traditional robotics.

AG

AgTechLogic

Ag Tech·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Developers of technology that supports intelligent precision spraying to reduce chemical use up to 90%, making a significant environmental, health, and financial impact.

PI

Pike Robotics

Robotics·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Through a novel robotic platform that can go into hazardous and flammable locations, Pike Robotics makes inspection of critical energy facility infrastructure safer, less costly, and more accurate.

TO

TourStream

Hard Tech·Early Revenue

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Enhancing guided tours for travelers, while also providing frictionless revenue generating transactions for tour operators and guides.

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