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Eclipse Ventures Fund VI

Geography: United States
Stage: Seed
Fund size: $720M
Focus: AI/ML, Manufacturing, Robotics & Automation and Semiconductors
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Eclipse Ventures Fund VI

Eclipse Ventures Fund VI is a $720M early-stage fund focused on physical AI — the intersection of AI with robotics, hardware, and industrial systems. Part of $1.3B dual raise. Total Eclipse AUM ~$10 billion, making it one of the largest dedicated hard-tech platforms globally.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Manufacturing

Robotics & Automation

Semiconductors

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Deep-tech founders solving physical deployment, not just model intelligence

physical-AI

robotics

industrial-automation

chip-infrastructure

autonomous-systems

manufacturing-intelligence

supply-chain-AI

Bullish Signals

$1.3B raised signals LP conviction in physical AIblog

Cerebras IPO-track and Wayve validate exit potentialblog

Seed-to-pre-IPO continuity rare in hard-techblog

True Anomaly $650M Series D — portfolio scalingtwitter

Bright Machines $132M raise; manufacturing AI tractiontwitter

First-ever CAO hire signals AI-ops seriousnesstwitter

"Highest signal fund if building in robotics"twitter

Early Cerebras backer in 2016 before AI hardware cooltwitter

Cerebras GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast 14× faster paradigm shiftexternal

Antora Energy $550M Series C co-led by Eclipsetwitter

Portfolio spans energy, space, manufacturing, robotics sectorstwitter

Noetive $41M seed led by Eclipse; Amir Frenkel founderlinkedin

Steuben Foods 10–15% capacity lift via Noetive schedulinglinkedin

CAO operationalizing portfolio into live manufacturing opslinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Valuation discipline risk as physical AI turns consensusblog

Hardware portfolios correlate on industrial capex cyclesblog

No room for tourist capital or pure-software foundersblog

China hardware stunning; US vibe-coding, not manufacturingtwitter

"Robotics not having ChatGPT moment yet" — deployment remains hardtwitter

Founder Do's

Position explicitly at AI-plus-hardware intersection

Show commercial traction, not just prototype stage

Emphasize manufacturing/supply chain complexity as moat

Focus on deployment as the actual problem, not model smarts

Design robots for specific use cases, not generic forms

Lead with real operational pain (scheduling, logistics, capacity)

Founder Don'ts

Pitch pure software AI without physical-world application

Assume ChatGPT moment will solve robotics deployment

Underestimate valuation discipline — Eclipse will walk

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$720M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Lior Susan

Lior SusanFounder & General Partner

Joe FathPartner

Aidan MadiganPartner

Seth WinterrothPartner

Amir FrenkelChief AI Officer

Greg ReichowPartner

Jiten BehlPartner

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