We are a seed-stage venture capital firm that believes the most important investment is the first one — the one that determines whether a company will stand for a generation or fail inside three years.
Curevstone Capital was established in 2019 by a group of founders, operators, and technologists who had collectively built and sold multiple technology companies — and who had each, at a critical moment in their own journeys, needed something the venture market rarely provides: a deeply engaged, technically literate seed investor who was genuinely aligned with long-term outcomes rather than portfolio velocity.
The firm's name derives from the architectural concept of the cornerstone — the first stone laid in a foundation, the one that establishes level, alignment, and structural integrity for everything built thereafter. We see our role in the same terms: the first capital that establishes the terms of a company's future.
In the years since our founding, we have backed over 30 seed-stage companies across artificial intelligence, deep technology, developer infrastructure, climate technology, health science, and financial infrastructure. Our portfolio companies have collectively raised over $280M in follow-on capital and have created more than 1,200 full-time jobs globally.
We have maintained an active AI thesis since 2020 and were early investors in what is now recognized as the foundation model transition. Our current focus spans AI agents, multi-modal systems, AI governance infrastructure, and vertical AI applications in regulated industries. We believe the AI wave is still in its second inning and that the most durable AI companies will be those that own proprietary data flywheels or operate in markets with high switching costs.
We allocate a meaningful portion of each fund to companies whose core competitive advantage lies in scientific or engineering breakthroughs that cannot be replicated with capital alone. This includes photonics, quantum information systems, advanced materials, novel semiconductor architectures, and synthetic biology. These investments require longer gestation periods, which is why we take our seed decisions with particular care.
Software development is becoming simultaneously more powerful and more complex. The tools that help developers build, test, deploy, and monitor systems at scale represent durable, high-retention businesses with strong network effects. We look for infrastructure startups with clear technical differentiation, an active open-source community, and a credible path to enterprise monetization.
The energy transition is the largest capital deployment event in human history. We invest in climate technology companies building hardware and software solutions that reduce the levelized cost of clean energy, accelerate decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors, and create financial products that bring institutional capital to energy infrastructure. We are particularly excited about long-duration storage, green hydrogen, and carbon removal at industrial scale.
Curevstone Capital has co-invested alongside NEA in select portfolio companies, reflecting our shared conviction in backing exceptional founders at the earliest stages. We maintain strong relationships with leading institutional investors who share our long-term perspective on technology transformation.
Our investor base includes university endowments, family offices, and institutional allocators who share our conviction in early-stage technology investing. Our LPs provide not just capital but deep networks that benefit our portfolio companies.
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