Inertia Ventures
New York, New York · Invests in US · Website
Check size
$2M-$15M
Thesis
Inertia invests in AI-native companies built to become core infrastructure for legacy industries, especially platforms operating in regulated, context-heavy, and physical-world workflows where durable data, compliance, audit trails, or embodied operations create compounding advantages.
Likely not a fit for
Consumer applications without institutional use cases, pure hardware without software defensibility, non-technical founding teams, early-stage without industry domain expertise
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Preferred
- Involvement
- Advisor
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
2 contacts on file
Nish Patel
Managing Partner · Primary contact
Mike Loretz
General Partner
Portfolio
Axiom Space is the leading provider of human spaceflight services and developer of human-rated space infrastructure. We operate end-to-end missions to the ISS while developing its successor, Axiom Station, and building next-generation spacesuits for low-Earth orbit, the Moon and beyond.
BasePaws is a petcare genetics company that offers affordable, easy-to-use screening tools for the early recognition of disease risks in pets, including the world's first at-home comprehensive cat DNA test and oral health test for cats.
Automated investing & Financial planning
Boomy is a music-tech company that allows users to create original songs using artificial intelligence, even if they have no prior music experience. It empowers a global community of artists to share and monetize their music.
Bowery Farming is a modern farming company that reimagines agriculture by growing flavorful, sustainable, and safe produce indoors, right outside of cities. Utilizing vertical farming techniques and advanced technology, Bowery aims to maximize yield while minimizing resource consumption, ensuring that their produce is both delicious and environmentally friendly.
Bumblebee Spaces creates intelligent, multifunctional living spaces by utilizing cubic space and moving unused items to the ceiling, thereby optimizing living environments without expanding physical footprints.
Calm is a mental health company with the #1 app to help you sleep more, stress less and live mindfully, available in both the App Store and Google Play store. The app offers a large library of content and tools to help people get better sleep, manage stress or anxious feelings, practice gratitude, and build a mindfulness practice.
Cadre is a next generation commercial real estate investment manager focused on delivering compelling risk-adjusted returns through a single-asset, value-investing approach in the underserved middle market.
Carta provides an end-to-end suite connecting private capital, offering solutions for equity management and fund management, including cap table management, valuations, fund administration, and more.
Andela is a platform that connects companies with software engineers from emerging markets, leveraging AI-driven matching to hire top talent quickly and efficiently.
Cherry is a company known for computer keyboards and hardware, and it operates in financial services, offering payment solutions for health and wellness providers.
Clearview AI provides facial recognition technology that accelerates investigations by enabling faster identification of suspects and cross-referencing databases for public safety.
Recent activity
- Oct 2025
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