Engineering Capital
Palo Alto, California · Invests in US · Website
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Partners with technical founders to lead seed rounds in companies defining new categories in software infrastructure. Provides deep technical diligence and first-principles guidance alongside capital.
Likely not a fit for
No consumer apps, no non-technical founding teams, no incremental improvements, no companies without clear large market opportunity
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~1 week
- Warm intro
- Preferred
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $76.6M
- Decision process
- Solo GP
Partners & team
3 contacts on file
Portfolio
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Recent activity
- Apr 2026
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