Twelve Years, 400 Startups, and a new $87,654,321 Fund
TLDR: Surpasses $75m Target, Top Quartile Returns, First Money into Deep Tech.
The future just got an $87m boost of funds for Deep Tech Startups. This was only made possible because of our bold LPs, our superhero founders and our tenacious Boost VC team (Maddie, Gus, Emily, Danielle, Derek, and Alex) who make one-deal-a-week humanly possible.
This fund will invest in the founders creating our future: from nuclear energy to genetics to space travel, Boost VC has been on the forefront of writing the very first checks into founders building the Sci-Fi future we read about as kids.
With our new $87M Fund 4, we’ll have the privilege of helping another 150 startups begin their journey. That brings Boost VC’s assets under management to over $300M, with a portfolio that’s already grown to 400 active companies across every corner of Deep Tech.
It’s this combination of discipline, velocity, and community that keeps our LPs doubling down - not to mention the returns we’re proud to share publicly:
Fund Alpha ($6.5m - 2013): 2.15× DPI (cash back to investors) & 6.24× TVPI (cash back + what’s still left)
Fund I ($38m - 2016): 4.35× DPI & 7.02× TVPI
(Funds II–III are still too early for DPI, but already strong performance.)
Our strategy has always been simple: invest first in the mission driven founders tinkering with new fringe technologies who are ignored by other VCs. A few companies in the portfolio include:
Coinbase: Our biggest crypto bet went public, now worth ≈$80B and reporting $1.43B in Q2 2025 profit.
Radiant Nuclear: Closed a $165M Series C (a16z, DCVC, Founders Fund, USV) in May 2025 to commercialize portable micro-reactors. They will be the first live new reactor design in over 50 years when they go live in 2026.
Colossal Biosciences: Raised a $200M Series C in January 2025 at a $10.2B valuation to accelerate de-extinction, and yes - they’ve brought back the Dire Wolf.
DeepGram: The leading Voice AI company with 400+ enterprise customers and over 50K years of audio processed.
K2 Space: Raised a $110M Series B (Altimeter, LightSpeed) in February 2025 to scale its multi-orbit satellite platform inside a new 180k ft² Torrance factory.
Volley: Closed a $55M Series C (Lightspeed, Microsoft) in July 2024; its voice-enabled AI games are now played in 30M+ homes across Alexa, Roku, and mobile.
To founders: If you’re raising $2M or less and building the future (time travel, teleportation, superpowers), we want to meet you. It only takes five minutes to apply: www.boost.vc.
Onward. Let’s make sci-fi a reality. 🚀
- Adam & Brayton
