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ACTIVE
Global HQ
San Francisco, United States
Countries of investment
  • United States
  • France
  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • Australia
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
Investment stages
  • Pre-Seed
  • Seed
Industries
  • AR/VR
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Aerospace
  • Defense Tech
  • Smart Infrastructure
  • Manufacturing
  • Deep Tech
About
Anorak Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies, deep tech, and frontier software solutions. They provide seed-stage backing to founders, granting access to an ecosystem of technical advisors, industry networks, and scaling frameworks. Their mission is to clear path barriers for innovative builders engineering data, spatial computing, and structural digital breakthroughs.
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Investment Thesis

Anorak Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm backing frontier software and emerging technical infrastructure. Their core thesis states that data, spatial computing, and structural developer tools will dictate the next epoch of computational value. What makes Anorak unique is its uncompromised focus on the raw builder layer; they completely bypass superficial consumer hype cycles, embedding themselves directly with deeply technical founders engineering foundational computing tools.
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Greg Castle has run the firm since 2012 and was an early investor in Oculus. Anorak has backed over 150 seed companies, eight valued at $1B+. Before VC, Castle founded a restaurant chain and was a marketing executive at Scaleform, Autodesk and Glassdoor.

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Greg Castle - Founder & Managing Partner

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Oculus

Anduril

Flexport

Mux

Rec Room

Heaviside Industries

Soctera

Arinna

Prisms VR

Orderful

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