Parallel Venture Capital — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$500K Checks)
Parallel Venture Capital is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in AI / ML, Developer Tools, Security. The firm typically writes $250K–$500K checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 10 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- AUM
- $500M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Developer Tools, Security
Last verified: 2026-10-26
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $500K
$500M
10+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
An early-stage fund for dual-use technology backing U.S. and allied founders building critical and emerging technologies. Its portfolio explicitly includes AI-native digital twin and robotics data-training companies, making it unusually aligned with an engine-first build-and-run platform.
How Parallel Venture Capital invests
Parallel Venture Capital is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Developer Tools, Security.
Parallel Venture Capital typically writes checks of $250K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $500M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Parallel Venture Capital has backed 10 companies in our records, including Advanced Material Technologies, Bandelier Technologies, Savant AI.
Partners & Team
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GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund II
Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Fund II ($150M)
2021 · fund records
Raised Fund I ($100M)
2019 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (10)
Other
Advanced Material Technologies
Modular critical-mineral separation and refining systems securing the domestic defense supply chain.
Bandelier Technologies
Quantum sensing and imaging for national security, commercialized from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Savant AI
Predictive intelligence platform forecasting individual, group, and system behavior for the Intelligence Community
ProDex Labs
AI-native digital twins compressing weekly factory planning from 20+ hours to 30 minutes
Diffraqtion
Quantum-enhanced optical imaging for space domain awareness beyond the classical diffraction limit.
Pensa
Multimodal AI agents turning engineering files into production documentation for aerospace and defense.
Argus Systems
Training-data infrastructure for robotics and physical-AI systems.
Bay Compute
AI-driven data-center operating system cutting power usage.
Autonomous Cyber
AI-native platform automating the offensive cyber kill chain for national security customers.
Badger Defense
Region-first OSINT platform delivering intelligence coverage where horizontal incumbents fall short.
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- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Developer Tools, Security — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $500K check.
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