About Strange Ventures
Strange Ventures is a venture firm investing in the future of computing, across software and hardware infrastructure. We back deeply technical founders rethinking how we compute, build, and make things.
How we work
We build with emerging technology, research it firsthand, and work alongside founders on product and narrative clarity.
Who we are
Tara Tan is Founder & Managing Partner. Research fellows contribute domain expertise in robotics, advanced materials and manufacturing, and data centers.
Strange Machines
Strange Machines is our podcast and interview series about ideas and inventions shaping the age of intelligence. Coming soon.
Strange 100
Strange 100 is a founder residency. Applications are opening soon. Dates, location, and application details have not been announced.
In Good Company
Dinners, salons, and time together for founders and researchers.
Field Notes
The Strange Review publishes essays, research, and observations from the future of computing.
Portfolio companies
- Odyssey Compute: Space-native computers built for the physics of space.
- Multiply Labs: Robotic factories for the next generation of medicines.
- Archetype AI: Foundation models that turn physical-world signals into meaning.
- Hartley Ultrafast: Computers that use light to make intelligence almost instantaneous.
- Eos Atomics: A new route to commercial fusion, built around solid-state materials.
- Zenithon: Foundation models for extreme physics.
- VideoDB: Video infrastructure that makes millions of hours of experience usable for world models.
- Ursa (stealth): The intelligence layer for the advanced materials behind everything we build.
- BLNG: AI-native product design, from idea to physical product. Starting with jewelry.
- MagicPath: The design model inside the world’s leading LLMs.
- Gather (stealth): Telecom infrastructure for a world of autonomous agents.