Venture Capital for the
Physical World

We back founders building breakthrough deep tech across Energy, Climate, and Physical AI, bringing hands-on engineering expertise and the product manufacturing networks to help you go from prototype to production.

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Our Thesis

Software alone won't
solve critical challenges
for people and the planet

We're at a historic inflection point. Breakthroughs in materials, manufacturing, and supply chains enabled by Artificial Intelligence are unlocking new possibilities but bringing them to market remains hard. Dipalo Ventures provides product expertise and deep engineering knowledge to help our founders bring breakthrough scientific and engineering innovations to market.

We don't just invest capital we help you build. Our partners are founders and operators with firsthand experience taking hard tech products from idea to market. We understand the technical risk, the operational complexity, and the path to scale.

Energy

Backing startups transforming how the world generates, stores, and uses energy from renewables to grid tech to electrification.

Distributed Generation StorageRenewablesData Center Infrastructure

Climate

Investing in technologies that reduce cost while mitigating climate change across food & agriculture, industry, transportation, and the built environment.

Waste to ValueWater TechIndustrial Decarbonization

Physical AI

Intelligent hardware robotics, industrial automation, embedded AI, and the physical systems where machine intelligence meets the real world.

RoboticsSmart DevicesIndustrial Intelligence

Why Partner With Us

An Unfair Advantage in Hard Tech

Hard tech fails where spreadsheets can't go on factory floors, across supply chains, and in engineering detail. We've built through it. Our GPs have shipped physical products at scale, so we know what matters before we invest and how to help after.

Diligence, Under the Hood
We go deep before we invest reviewing engineering, identifying supply chain risks, and pressure-testing your path from prototype to production.
Hands-On from Day One
We work alongside you on the details CAD, BOMs, and manufacturing plans and stay engaged as you scale.
Built Locally. Scaled Globally
When you're ready to expand, we leverage our networks to unlock international markets and support execution on the ground.

Technical Residency

The Residency

Better selection,
lower failure rates.

The Dipalo Ventures Residency is a technical diligence and audit program that identifies and mitigates gaps in product design and engineering. It provides technical evaluations, workshops, mentorship, and specific design and engineering support before we invest and long after.

What we embed with you

Product ManagementCustomer Experience DesignData ScienceContract ManufacturingSupply ChainElectrical DesignMechanical Design

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The Partnership

Builders. Investors.
Battle-Tested

From Motorola and Google to founding startups, product design agencies, angel groups, and venture funds our GPs are serial entrepreneurs who have both built and backed innovation for decades.

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Managing Partner

Rafiq Ahmed

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General Partner

Mitul Patel

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Selected portfolio

Designed to Scale.
Built to Last

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Testimonials

Voices from Our Network

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I didn't know what I didn't know. Working with Dipalo Ventures helped me formulate a better plan it showed gaps in our engineering, supply chain, and time to market that we needed to solve immediately

Adia Gundry

CEO, PluieFounder

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You are the only investors who perfectly know the right questions to ask. Where are the huge potential risks for delivery fulfillment

Slawek Potasz

CEO, VumoFounder

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Dipalo was the hardest check

Manuela Zoninsein

CEO, KadeyaFounder

Venture Capital for the Physical World

Software alone won't solve critical challenges for people and the planet