PLATE 01
Chef Robotics
Robots that help automate food production.
Early-stage deep tech · Built by founders
Backing exceptional founders before the market recognizes exceptional companies.
We backed many of our companies before they were even formed.
humbition is an early-stage deep tech fund built by founders. We invest at inception and pre-seed in people building important technology.
02 — The future
The future is still mostly unbuilt.
Not a list of sectors. A few of the questions we can't stop thinking about.
- Q.01What happens when robots can do work that never made economic sense to automate?
- Q.02What if living to 200 turned out to be an engineering problem?
- Q.03What becomes possible when intelligence becomes nearly free?
- Q.04Which physical industries will new materials completely rewrite?
- Q.05What technologies seem impossible today but normal twenty years from now?
- Q.06The one nobody is asking yet.
03 — Portfolio
A few futures we're helping build.
PLATE 02
AXO
Next generation neural interfaces.
PLATE 03
Magic State Labs
An autonomous, AI-powered quantum discovery engine.
PLATE 04
Perle
Effortless labeling and better models for AI.
PLATE 05
Braid Robotics
A DeepSeek-style model for robotics.
PLATE 06
Rendezvous Robotics
Scalable, adaptive infrastructure in space.
PLATE 07
Wild West Systems
Reinventing defense in the age of asymmetric warfare.
04 — How we work
Cofounders on demand.
We've sat in the founder's chair.
humbition was created by the founders of Indiegogo and Zocdoc. We're not another investor to manage — we know what building a company actually feels like.
When something hard comes up, call us.
- A critical hire.
- A product decision.
- The next financing.
- A customer you need to land.
- A problem you cannot discuss with your team.
- 01Product
- 02Hiring
- 03Fundraising
- 04Customers
- 05Strategy
- 06Hard decisions
We will get into the weeds when useful.
And get out of the way when we're not.
05 — From founders
Not marketing. How founders actually experience humbition.
“Slava and Cyrus were more than pre-seed investors: they were effectively co-founders of Podz.”
“Cyrus and Slava are valued partners of ours — helping build and scale Galileo from the early days. From recruiting to fundraising, their operator mindset helps distinguish humbition among other investors.”
“Being a founder is hard and there's a lot of investors who talk a big talk but don't help. Slava is always someone I can go to for honest advice and help any day and time of the week.”
06 — humbition origins
Before the company, there is a person.
humbition origins is a small program for exceptional MIT students interested in how ambitious technology companies begin.
It usually starts with someone we trust.
Our investments come through relationships — founders, researchers and operators we know. We don't review cold pitches, so the best introduction is a mutual one.
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