Tesseract Venture Fund

Tesseract Venture Fund (TVFund) is a US venture capital fund headquartered in Tampa, Florida, that invests in early-stage technology and digital media startups, providing capital and hands-on support to help companies scale and achieve industry impact. The fund concentrates on robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applied across a broad set of traditionally slow-moving sectors, including military and defense, critical infrastructure, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education and information security. It invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in US-based companies, with check sizes ranging from roughly $500K up to $5M, generally as a co-investor. The fund takes an operator-first approach, emphasizing deep collaboration with portfolio companies, and its manager has executed more than 50 deals over the course of a career focused primarily on technology and healthcare, active across North America and Europe with a number of notable exits. The fund is affiliated with Tesseract Ventures, an American invention company founded by John Boucard that builds advanced hardware, software and AI-driven systems for construction, defense, infrastructure and agriculture using its PRISM, MOSAIC and ECHO technology platforms. The fund maintains a small team of around eight people. By combining venture capital with the engineering capabilities of an affiliated invention company, Tesseract Venture Fund backs robotics and AI founders bringing advanced technology to defense, infrastructure, energy, agriculture and other foundational industries that have been slower to digitize.