DNX Ventures

DNX Ventures is a San Mateo–based venture capital firm founded in 2011. It invests in Seed and Series A B2B startups, with activities in the United States and Japan and an office in Tokyo. The firm focuses on SaaS and cloud, cybersecurity, deep tech, sustainability, hardware, retail, and finance. It emphasizes helping early-stage companies validate product–market fit and secure their first customers by leveraging a CXO network and partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. DNX Ventures also provides strategic guidance and operational insight to portfolio companies as they grow. The organization operates as an investment adviser and supports founders through active involvement in building customer relationships and scaling business development.

Kris Harms

Principal

Deepak Jagannathan

Principal

Mitch Kitamura

Managing Partner

Yo Kurabayashi

Managing Partner

Q Motiwala

Managing Director

Eva Nahari

Principal

Yuma Tanaka

Investment Vice President and Associate

Past deals in Language Processing

Knostic

Seed Round in 2025
Knostic is a developer of a risk management and governance platform specifically designed for enterprise large language models (LLMs). The company's software addresses the challenges associated with LLMs, particularly in managing their tendencies to generate excessive or inappropriate responses. Knostic provides essential access controls that enable enterprises to deploy LLMs effectively while ensuring security, safety, and the preservation of value. Through its knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic facilitates AI-powered innovation, allowing organizations to harness the potential of LLMs in a responsible and efficient manner.

Knostic

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Knostic is a developer of a risk management and governance platform specifically designed for enterprise large language models (LLMs). The company's software addresses the challenges associated with LLMs, particularly in managing their tendencies to generate excessive or inappropriate responses. Knostic provides essential access controls that enable enterprises to deploy LLMs effectively while ensuring security, safety, and the preservation of value. Through its knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic facilitates AI-powered innovation, allowing organizations to harness the potential of LLMs in a responsible and efficient manner.

Coqui

Seed Round in 2023
Coqui is a startup focused on advancing open speech technology for a wide range of applications. The company has developed an automatic speech recognition engine that facilitates the creation of text-to-speech systems, interactive voice interfaces, smart assistants, and tools for enhancing accessibility. Its engine is designed with performance optimizations that ensure consistent low latency and efficient memory utilization, regardless of the length of audio being transcribed. This allows developers to integrate Coqui's technology into their systems without the need for extensive fine-tuning, making it a versatile solution for various speech-related applications.

ElastixAI

ElastixAI is developing an AI inference platform designed to optimize how large language models are run.
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