Embark Management LLC: A California-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage tech investments.
Location
Santa Monica, CA, US
Founded
2017
Embark Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund specializing in "deep tech" investments. The firm focuses on ambitious teams with breakthrough proprietary technology that provides a highly defensible competitive advantage in transforming multi-billion dollar industries. Their investment criteria include bio-healthcare, material science, software-computing, robotics-automation, manufacturing-industrial, and sensors-semiconductor sectors.
The firm's portfolio includes notable companies such as inVia Robotics, Jiko, Kula Bio, and Machina Labs. Embark Ventures is led by General Partners Yipeng Zhao and Peter Lee, who bring their expertise to support portfolio companies. The firm's investment philosophy centers on identifying transformative technologies with the potential to disrupt large markets, offering strategic guidance and resources to help startups scale and succeed.
Embark Ventures - Portfolio Snapshot
Portfolio activity breakdown across disclosed investments and stages
