Where we invest

Fathom Fund is venture assistance for breakthrough innovation

Artificial intelligence is creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges across society. Our investment research spans compute infrastructure, foundational models and applications of AI, and the security ecosystem necessary for modern computing.

Decarbonization has risen to be one of the most important commercial and geopolitical issues of our time. Our focus areas span new power generation, chemical synthesis, and efficient consumption.

Next generation materials for aerospace, electronics, automotive, and other industries have emerged as their own investment class. The need to decarbonize has also created a need for ‘green’ and materials and production processes while advances in printing and robotics are revolutionizing how and where products are made.

Space has emerged as a new and poorly understood medium for military and commercial applications advancing mission support, manufacturing, communication and observation for applications on earth. We especially seek founders advancing dual-use missions.

How we invest and support

We prefer to invest in technology platforms at the pre-commercialization or early commercialization phase where technical and scale-up risk remains. Our ideal founders are ambitious leaders with significant operating experience and strong technical backgrounds.

Technical Imagination

Our preferred founders are scientists and engineers with a radical new approach. These founders often envision products that cut across multiple markets or envision new markets that wouldn't otherwise exist.

Uncommon Rigor

We do rigorous technical diligence, aided by an extensive network of subject matter experts and industry leaders.

Thesis Driven

We start with an intuition about when and how disruption will happen, while learning from our founders. We do independent research and share our views openly.

Open Access

Our partners are business and government leaders across the sectors we invest. While our primary focus is on companies raising their first institutional round, we are positioned to provide assistance at all points in a company's life cycle.