What does Prime Movers Lab invest in?
Prime Movers Lab invests most often at Series A and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Smart Manufacturing, Robotics and Industrial IoT.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Jul 2026; 5 cheques on record.
VC firmDeploying nowNew fund $993K, Aug 2026
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series A and Seed: 100% of its rounds
Led 3 rounds
Prime Movers Lab Raises $245 Million Early-Stage Fund to Advance Breakthrough Science StartupsFrom their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first5 appearances
4 rounds
1 round
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Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
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| Prime Movers Lab | - | - |
The latest companies Prime Movers Lab put money into.
1 episode naming Prime Movers Lab in the title.

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Prime Movers Lab invests most often at Series A and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Smart Manufacturing, Robotics and Industrial IoT.
5 investments on record, 4 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 3. The most recent was in Jul 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Humanoid (Series A, Jul 2026), Focused Energy (Series A, Jun 2026) and The Path (Seed, May 2026).
The median round it joins is $152M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $60M.
Yes: it led 3 of its 5 investments on record (60%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (60%), the United Kingdom (20%) and Germany (20%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 4 investments in the last 12 months.
Prime Movers Lab is a VC firm based in Jackson, United States.
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