Capital Factory
capitalfactory.com Direct + LP
Capital Factory is an early-stage investor and accelerator based in Austin, Texas, that invests in Texas-based deep tech startups across sectors like space, energy, bio, and defense. It operates a venture fund (Texas Fund) and an All Access program, and has backed notable companies such as Apptronik and Saronic.
Capital Factory is an accelerator headquartered in Austin, United States, founded in 2009. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to Series C and later, in space, energy, bio and defense. 1000 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back the most ambitious founders in Texas — humanoid robots, autonomous ships, neural interfaces, rockets to the Moon — with cash, customers, and the most powerful network in the state.”
— Capital Factory, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Invests in
- Texas
- Founded
- 2009
- Portfolio
- 1000 companies
Team, as Capital Factory publishes it
- Joshua Baer Founder & CEO
- Bryan Chambers Co-Founder & President
- Gordon Daugherty Co-Founder & Chairman
- Jamie Serio Vice President, Ventures
- Nick Spiller Managing Director, All Access Fund
- Morgan Odell Director of Ventures
- Nina Shelat Director of Government Ventures
- Luis Martinez, Ph.D. Venture Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on capitalfactory.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 240 co-investors found.
- Lockheed Martin Ventures 5 shared companies: launchfirestorm.com, xbowsystems.com, fortemtech.com, orbitfab.com…
- Silent Ventures Management, LLC 5 shared companies: launchfirestorm.com, voyagertechnologies.com, cnbc.com, saronic.com…
- Lowercarbon Capital 5 shared companies: cnbc.com, time.com, technologyreview.com, airloom.energy…
- Join Beyond, LLC 4 shared companies: launchfirestorm.com, spacex.com, vatnsystems.com, cart.com
- At One Ventures 4 shared companies: cnbc.com, time.com, bbc.com, colossal.com
- Draper Associates 4 shared companies: colossal.com, cyber-swarm.net, darkhive.com, dexmat.com
- Blanck Capital 3 shared companies: launchfirestorm.com, voyagertechnologies.com, cnbc.com
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 3 shared companies: launchfirestorm.com, saronic.com, vatnsystems.com
- Balerion Space Ventures 3 shared companies: voyagertechnologies.com, xbowsystems.com, skyfi.com
- Axevil Capital, LLC 3 shared companies: cnbc.com, apptronik.com, spacex.com
and 230 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Capital Factory publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://capitalfactory.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://capitalfactory.com/texas-fundstage_min, stage_max
- https://capitalfactory.com/teampeople
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Record 1409 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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