Post-quantum security
Protecting data, infrastructure and sovereignty as systems migrate to quantum-resistant standards.
NextVerse VenturesAI · QUANTUM · DEEP TECH · COMMERCIALIZATION
Investing in the Next Version of the Universe.
NextVerse Ventures backs US-headquartered founders building at the convergence of artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
01 / THE THESIS
Commercial value today.
Asymmetric upside as quantum scales.
NextVerse invests in seed-stage companies building the enabling layers of AI and quantum—companies that can win independently of the quantum timetable and become even more valuable as the technology matures.
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02 / WHERE WE INVEST
At the crossing where frontier science becomes commercial advantage.
AI–quantum orchestration
Architecture-agnostic software, hybrid workflows, error correction and enabling infrastructure.
Defensible intelligence
Agentic systems, proprietary data loops and domain-specific AI that acts—not merely chats.
Sovereign deep tech
Foundational technologies shaped by security, IP, industrial policy and trusted deployment.
SEED STAGEUS-HEADQUARTERED$250K–$1M INITIAL CHECKSTECHNICAL MOATS
03 / THE NEXTVERSE DILIGENCE ENGINE
Conviction is earned
through evidence.
Four gates. A written test at every gate. A clear reason to continue—or stop.
Structural edge
Two or more evidenced moats—not a thin model wrapper.
INDEPENDENTLY TESTED ↗Science & readiness
Benchmarked against the strongest classical alternative.
INDEPENDENTLY TESTED ↗Deployment economics
A real buyer, a real cost threshold, a credible path to scale.
INDEPENDENTLY TESTED ↗Ownership & sovereignty
Clean IP, resilient structure and exit paths underwritten at entry.
INDEPENDENTLY TESTED ↗DECISION DISCIPLINE · IC-reviewed · MP-approved · Signed technical audit before capital moves · Follow-on capital is earned
04 / AVANTHI SHAH · FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Operator-investor.
Frontier-tech translator.
Avanthi translates frontier technologies into their commercial, strategic and investment implications.
Across more than 25 years as a technologist, entrepreneur and operating executive—and more than nine years of investment- committee experience—her edge is translation between technical experts, founders, enterprise buyers, boards and investors.
She led an engineering organization of approximately 200 people and now mentors emerging ventures through Stanford Emergence, contributing a commercialization and investor perspective to founder teams.
25+ YEARS OPERATOR & TECHNOLOGIST9+ YEARS INVESTMENT-COMMITTEE EXPERIENCE~200 ENGINEERS LED
SELECTED CREDENTIALS
New Voices alumna
Expert-source development across television, radio and digital media.
Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Award recipient.
Institutional governance
Board and audit-committee experience.
Executive leadership
Member and former chapter board leader.
05 / THE TEAM
Founder-led conviction.
Institutional discipline.
Deep tech, investing, finance, legal strategy and governance across the investment lifecycle.
Priyank Garg
Technologist-turned-investor with 18+ years of angel investing and service on India’s National Quantum Mission Central Evaluation Committee.
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Erika Cramer
Venture capitalist and investment banker with 25+ years of M&A experience; co-founder of Silver Lane Advisors and General Partner of How Women Invest Fund I.
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Lata Setty
Investor, patent attorney and startup operator with deep experience in diligence, intellectual property and scaling venture-backed companies.
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Dr. Tamali Sen Gupta
Stanford Law JSD, author and commercial-law leader with 30+ years advising companies and serving as an independent director.
LinkedIn ↗AVANTHI SHAH / SPEAKING & INSIGHTS
The next deep-tech stack.
AI, quantum, semiconductors, robotics—and the decisions that turn technical possibility into commercial value.
Building where AI
meets the physical world?
We want to meet technical founders before the category is obvious.
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