MVP Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in technology startups. The firm provides capital, mentorship, and strategic support to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, aiming to help them build successful companies.

MVP Ventures

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MVP Ventures was founded in 2020 with the realization that a rethought model for venture investing could unlock significantly greater returns. With the help of our proprietary data-driven sourcing engine and value-add focus, we invest as the 2nd-largest check into early-stage deeptech teams building differentiated and defensible technology across software and hardware — with no ownership restrictions.

Datavolo is building data pipeline and orchestration tooling for handling unstructured data. We’re excited to partner with them alongside General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, HUMAN CAPITAL, and more, as they “set the stage for a future where data isn’t merely handled, but intelligently harnessed to fulfill the evolving requirements driven by AI.”

The effectiveness of generative AI models is predicated on their ability to access timely, secure, and complete data sets. While 90% of enterprise data is unstructured, the data pipeline software in use today is neither designed for nor capable of handling the vast amount of unstructured data necessary for fully unlocking GenAI potential. 

Datavolo solves a foundational part — the acquiring, processing, and distributing of multimodal data — within the GenAI tech stack for organizations looking to build secure and scalable AI applications.

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Pants made with 3D weaving technology are coming to a Walmart near you! 2023 Vintage company unspun™ signed a major deal with the largest U.S. retailer to explore how Unspun’s 3D weaving technology Vega can be used to make workwear-style pants under a Walmart house brand. 

This is not only great news for our portfolio company but also great news for the country and the world as the pilot aims to help reduce the environmental impact of garment production, offer a more sustainable process for meeting apparel demand, and shift more textile manufacturing back to the U.S.

Read more + watch a video on their partnership here:

Our 2023 Vintage company Cartwheel is officially out of stealth and ready to start changing the future of animated storytelling!

Cartwheel is developing proprietary foundational AI models to create movie-quality animations with granular controls over the animation itself — i.e., are editable.

With Cartwheel, users can generate editable animations using a large motion model. Its intuitive UI empowers creative storytellers in video games, film animation, and creative agencies by streamlining the animation process for 100x output.

Cartwheel is co-founded by a multi-time founder and a highly technical generative AI researcher. CEO Jonathan Jarvis was the founder of a leading animation studio (Universal Patterns), ex co-founder and CEO of a venture-backed AI startup (Token.ai), and a Director at Google leading their brand identity and logo system teams. CTO Andrew Carr was Senior Research Scientist at Gretel.ai, Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI, and Researcher at Google Brain.

Sign up for the private Beta version of their software below:

We’re thrilled to see our portfolio companies make the Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list for their contributions to robotics, manufacturing, and North America. 

Anduril Industries — “for modernizing the arsenal of democracy.”

Gecko Robotics — “for going under the hood to inspect power plants, storage tanks, and submarines.”

Mighty Buildings — “for making net-zero housing a factory-scale proposition.”

See the full list below:

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