ALM Ventures Debuts $100 Million Fund

<p><strong>MOUNTAIN VIEW<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; ALM Ventures has announced the launch of ALM Ventures Fund I&comma; a &dollar;100 million early-stage fund dedicated to humanoid robots&comma; embodied AI&comma; and spatial intelligence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fund invests at the seed and pre-seed stages and is structured to build concentrated early ownership in this emerging category&comma; arriving at a moment when humanoids and physical AI are widely viewed as the most transformational technology class of the coming decade&period; The fund is further supported by a disciplined portfolio-construction model and reserves for follow-on financing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After years of research&comma; humanoids are finally entering a phase where performance&comma; reliability&comma; and cost are converging toward commercial viability&comma;” said Modar Alaoui&comma; Founder and General Partner of ALM Ventures&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What the category needs now is focused capital and deep technical diligence to turn prototypes into scalable&comma; enduring companies&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ALM Ventures Fund I’s investment thesis targets the foundations of scalable humanoid deployment&comma; spanning next-generation platforms&comma; intelligent motion systems&comma; spatial reasoning&comma; embodied intelligence&comma; world-modeling approaches&comma; and the supporting infrastructure required for early commercial rollout&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During fund formation&comma; ALM Ventures completed ten initial investments aligned with the fund’s thesis&period; These companies span core layers of the humanoid stack and include Sanctuary AI&comma; Weave Robotics&comma; Emancro&comma; High Torque Robotics&comma; MicroFactory&comma; Mbodi&comma; Adamo&comma; Haptica Robotics&comma; UMA&comma; and O-ID&period; Additional portfolio details are available on the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;http&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;alm&period;ventures&percnt;2F&amp&semi;esheet&equals;54373265&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20251211465095&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;ALM&plus;Ventures&plus;website&amp&semi;index&equals;1&amp&semi;md5&equals;9ef3f5cc58110b8c5ed1919912e1cdcd" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">ALM Ventures website<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The field is entering a commercial readiness phase as advances in control&comma; perception and model-based reasoning begin to reduce integration complexity and lower cost curves&period; These shifts are creating clearer pathways for early humanoid applications and accelerating the move toward more mature forms of autonomous deployment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As part of its ecosystem-building work&comma; ALM Ventures also produces the global Humanoids Summit series across Silicon Valley&comma; London and Tokyo&period; Its focus on commercialization&comma; scalable production&comma; and capital allocation gives the firm early visibility into new technologies&comma; emerging pre-incorporation teams&comma; and direct access to the established leaders shaping the global humanoid ecosystem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;