Vault Capital

About The Fund

Vault Capital, founded in 1988, is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, with a focus on seed and early-stage investments. They invest primarily in technology-based companies across a diverse range of sectors, including IT, media, biotech, hardware manufacturing, energy, material science, medical devices, and hospital services. Vault Capital is known for their strategic equity investments, ranging with a set minimum and maximum of $9,000,000. They target firms that offer new materials, ubiquitous computing solutions such as wise chips, information visualization, embedded intelligence solutions, reflective monitoring, consumer and enterprise wireless applications, entertainment, communications, wireless operating systems and applications. They also focus on biotech, which encompasses predictive technologies, analog technologies, information, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genomic research, polemics, lasers, fluids, energy storage, adaptive sensors and diagnostics. Through their website, Vault Capital highlights their successful early investments in companies such as Glowforge, which sold $27 million in product within its first year; Clover, which was acquired by Starbucks; HouseValues, which went public; Singingfish, acquired by AOL; Terabeam, which received $450 million from Lucent before being acquired by YDI wireless; and Imperium Renewables, acquired by Renewable Energy Group (REGI). Vault Capital's principals share a passion for solving complex problems, building industry-leading companies, fair dealing, and creating a cohesive and strong community.