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Elementum Ventures

Micro-fund

USDECAILDeep TechAI/MLClimateCybersecurityBio/PharmaEnterpriseOther

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Investment thesis

Elementum Ventures invests in seed-stage deep technology companies targeting large markets with intellectual property as their primary differentiation and defensibility. The firm focuses on emerging technologies on the cusp of commercialization across frontier sectors including defense, carbon conversion, space, fusion, and advanced biotech. As stated on their fund page: "We not only invest capital at the earliest of stages, we invest ourselves wherever needed as you build your company, market, and team. We work with founders we like — people with passion, humility, and grit who are building something urgent, necessary, and often unexpected." Elementum's three General Partners are all multi-exit founder-operators who are willing to step into unexpected operating roles — COO, CFO, sales rep — for their portfolio companies. The firm brings a deep network of strategic partners, advisors, and potential customers to help accelerate a company's progress, and explicitly avoids consumer social apps, traditional SaaS, fintech, and non-mission-driven companies.

Notable quotes

We not only invest capital at the earliest of stages, we invest ourselves wherever needed as you build your company, market, and team. We work with founders we like — people with passion, humility, and grit who are building something urgent, necessary, and often unexpected.

Elementum Ventures (firm) · https://www.elementum.vc/our-fund

Elementum believes that by working together, we all can decide the future.

Elementum Ventures (firm) · https://www.elementum.vc/our-fund

Elementum Ventures is a bespoke seed investor whose three general partners are all multi-exit founder-operators willing to step into unexpected operating roles like 'COO, CFO, sales rep, headhunter, janitor' for their portfolio companies.

Elementum Ventures (firm) · https://www.vcsheet.com/fund/elementum-ventures

Team

Ben Chelf

General Partner

Deep TechCybersecurityEnterprise

Ben Patterson

General Partner

AI/MLEnterpriseDeep Tech

Kurt Keilhacker

General Partner

Deep TechClimateBio/Pharma

Ted Callahan

Co-Founder & Advisor

EnterpriseDeep Tech

Recent investments

CompanyRoundSizeDate
SerroSeed$1m2025-06-01
TrezSeed$2m2023-02-01
heyDataSeed$3m2022-09-01
TwelveSeries B$130m2022-06-29
MekonosSeries A$25m2021-11-10
PetraSeries A$30m2021-11-01
AndurilSeed
LoomSeed
Slingshot AerospaceSeed
LegitSeed$3m2018-04-01

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