Awaken Capital

Awaken Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled platforms and the entrepreneurs who build them. This means that instead of investing in a single molecule, material, or new therapy, we invest in the platforms used to create them. While vertical plays and industry-specific solutions can produce great returns, we find that truly nonlinear outcomes come from a platform-based approach. From machine intelligence and precision agriculture to material informatics and computational drug discovery, we identify and enable companies creating products that address large-scale problems in multiple markets. We believe that tech-enabled platforms will power the most successful companies of our time.