Established in 2015, Eclipse Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Lior Susan. The firm was previously known as Formation 8 Hardware Fund, a branch of Formation 8, a venture capital firm which was disbanded in 2015. Eclipse Ventures is based in Palo Alto, California. As of February 2019, the firm is managing 33 active companies in its portfolio and has sold its ownership in 3 companies. Its most recent investment occurred on January 2019 for Augury, a predictive maintenance platform aimed for facility owners and service companies.
Eclipse Ventures funds companies that are established in North America. The firm prefers to invest in companies that are operating in the hardware, software, and data industries. It provides funding for companies in the early stage of development. With its most recent funding round held in January 2019, the firm has amassed a total amount of $1.1 billion. Its most recent round, Eclipse Fund III, acquired a fund total of $500 million.
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Funded Companies
Company developing and licensing Neural Inferencing Semiconductor IP/Software and embedded FPGA hard IP and software for reconfigurable RTL in SOCs, MCUs and other ICs
Baby monitors to track a baby's heart rate and oxygen levels, and stream video and audio to phones
B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help diagnose a machine's issue through the sound it makes.
An internet company building a different way to get home broadband internet. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2016.
June is a consumer electronics company making home automation products, most notably a smart oven called the June Oven.
An agriculture technology company offering products and services that utilize aerial imaging and data processing designed to help farmers maximize profits. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2012.
A logistics company that uses technology to fulfill warehouse orders. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
A technology company offering an internet of things (IoT) platform for the biopharmaceutical and medical technology industries.
A computer software company that creates products intended for the manufacturing industry. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2018.
Lucira Health is a company developing and producing health diagnostic hardware that transforms a smartphone into a portable and real-time health-monitoring device for rapid, accessible, multiplexed analysis of bodily fluids.
Lighthouse AI is a Palo Alto, California-based consumer electronics company.
Tortuga Logic is a company founded by Tim Sherwood, Jonathan Valamehr, Jason Oberg and Ryan Kastner.
Wayve is a London-based transportation company founded by Alex Kendall.
A company offering an electric unmanned aircraft for first responder surveillance.
Lucira Health is an Emeryville, California-based diagnostics company supplying disposable test kits for infectious disease diagnostics in RNA and DNA.
Toka builds targeted intelligence gathering platforms to gather intelligence from various sensors.
Artificial Intelligence company
Swift Navigation is a San Francisco-based navigation company founded by Tim Harris, Colin Beighley and Fergus Noble.
Associated investment funds
People
Angela Hayward
Investor and Portfolio Partner
Greg Lyon
Chief Financial Officer
Greg Reichow
Partner
Lior Susan
Founder/Partner
Mike McNamara
General Partner
Seth Winterroth
Partner
Further reading
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