Electric Capital

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that backs founders building frontier technology. It has invested since 2018 in companies that reduce dependence on middlemen, and its investors are engineers who still write code.

What Electric Capital offers

• Early-stage investment: works closely with founders at pre-seed and seed while they shape the product and find a market.
• Growth support: helps larger teams develop products, hire, set metrics and handle changing regulation.
• Technical expertise: draws on advisors experienced in engineering, product design, marketing, HR, governance and policy.
• Founder network: introduces founders and communities to one another to strengthen the wider ecosystem.

Customers and markets

Founders in areas such as AI, cryptography, fintech, healthcare, energy marketplaces, public-sector systems, digital identity and the creator economy.

Key facts

• Investing since: 2018
• Portfolio: More than 100 technology startups
• Team background: Founders of eight companies, six of which were acquired
• Focus areas: AI, cryptography and distributed systems