TenOneTen Ventures

Alation provides an Agentic Data Intelligence Platform that helps organizations scale and accelerate the delivery of AI and data initiatives, focusing on building trusted AI and applications with trusted data.

Invests in outsiders—mission-driven, non-traditional founders in off-coast locations building hardware, deep tech, logistics, or legacy-industry companies—and leverages a VC podcast-built national network for systematic dealflow.

Led by Datto founder Austin McChord, fund invests at Series A in modernizing unglamorous, large markets—e.g., cattle supply chains, industrial painting, satellite buses—and has scaled winners to unicorn rounds.

Valia Ventures operates a multi-stage platform from Pre-Seed to $75M growth checks, allowing them to lead early formation rounds and maintain meaningful ownership as companies scale. The firm backs technically ambitious founders across sectors like AI, hardtech, robotics, and frontier health that many generalist funds treat as too complex, while using a global footprint and willingness to partner with regional leads to invest across the US, Europe, and emerging markets.

Felicis explicitly defines founders as their customer rather than LPs and has publicly committed to always vote with founders in board matters. The firm created a 1% Founder Development Pledge providing non-dilutive capital for founders personal development like coaching and therapy. Felicis systematically optimizes for revenue efficiency and backs geo-agnostic teams outside Silicon Valley, focusing on reinvention of large existing markets with 10x better products and frontier solutions in areas like longevity and engineered foods.

Early-stage investor focused on defensible AI, advanced materials and industry automation with a deep-tech and data-moat thesis, offering founders Lu Zhang's credibility as a researcher and medical device entrepreneur. Fusion Fund backs early-stage technical founders building companies with defensible technical barriers in AI, advanced materials, and industry automation, with founder Lu Zhang bringing rare credibility as both a former deep-tech researcher and successful medical device entrepreneur. The fund specializes at the intersection of AI and highly regulated sectors like healthcare and industrial automation, maintaining a concentrated thesis on "deep tech + data moats".