Overview
Eclipse Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in hard tech, manufacturing, and industrial automation. Founded by Lior Susan. Portfolio includes Bright machines, Fictiv, and other industrial robotics and automation companies.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Type
Focus
Fund size
Portfolio
Founded
Founder
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Eclipse Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Bright Machines1× joint2 total
- 2Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 4SoftBank Group1× joint6 total
- 5Wayve1× joint8 total
Most recent
- Wayve Series C (2024)2024-05-07with Wayveoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Lior Susan Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Eclipse Ventures.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Eclipse Ventures in third-party press
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis - TechCrunch
Humble launches autonomous cabless EV truck to scale zero-emission freight - Clean Trucking
Eclipse Ventures Raises $1.3B to Advance Physical AI Startups - Ventureburn
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Eclipse Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Wayve Series C (2024)2024-05-07with Wayveoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Bright Machines1× joint2 total
- 2Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 4SoftBank Group1× joint6 total
- 5Wayve1× joint8 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- investment2024-05-07operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Eclipse Ventures’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipWayve Series C (2024)
2024-05-07Wayve closed a $1.05 billion Series C (announced May 7, 2024), led by SoftBank Group with participation from NVIDIA and existing investor Microsoft, to advance its embodied-AI autonomous-driving technology.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
- https://www.eclipse.vc/
- Eclipse Ventures official site · https://eclipse.capital/
- Eclipse Ventures portfolio · https://app.dealroom.co/investors/eclipse
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Eclipse Ventures.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Eclipse Ventures from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis - TechCrunch
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Humble launches autonomous cabless EV truck to scale zero-emission freight - Clean Trucking
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Eclipse Ventures Raises $1.3B to Advance Physical AI Startups - Ventureburn
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Wayve, Cerebras backer Eclipse Ventres secures $1.3B across two funds to back physical AI startups - Tech Funding News
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Eclipse Ventures raises $1.3 billion to double down on AI and deep tech investments - CXO Digitalpulse
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Eclipse Ventures Launches $1.3 Billion Fund Targeting Physical AI and Robotics - MLQ.ai
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Top 10 Venture Capital Firms Investing in Robotics - dakota.com
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Rivian Spinout Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial Automation - MLQ.ai
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The AI startups founders and VCs say could be acquisition targets in 2026 - Fortune
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Rivian Spins Out Mind Robotics, Secures $110M Seed Round - The Tech Buzz
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New photos offer a fresh look at Capstan Medical’s structural heart robotics tech - Medical Design & Outsourcing
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Robotics Startup Funding Rises - Crunchbase News
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/eclipse-ventures.md
- RSS feed: /companies/eclipse-ventures/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/0001fa35-3abf-4bf1-99ae-7b65d76ee99d
- Revision history: /companies/eclipse-ventures/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Eclipse Ventures against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026