Concept2Company Ventures

Concept2Company Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund located in Silicon Valley. We help professors, staff, students, and recent university graduates turn breakthrough research into enduring technology companies. C2C has been focused on this singular mission for a quarter century. We were the first investor in companies that have been acquired for more than $2 billion in cash. We are particularly interested in funding companies that use AI or improve AI infrastructure. We believe that a small number of companies are formed every year with foundational technologies that will change the world. Frequently, these foundational technologies were developed at universities by academic founders with limited business experience. We aspire to identify those companies and partner with their founders at the earliest stage to become their trusted source of capital and advice. C2C gets involved with new ventures much earlier than other venture capital firms are willing to invest. Often, there isn’t even a business plan or a complete team — just a promising technology and a desire to do something useful with it. We enjoy the challenge of helping people shape an idea for a business.