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Engineering Capital

745 Burgoyne Street, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Overview

Engineering Capital partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights: they boldly invest before traditional venture firms are willing. They lead and anchor seed rounds in companies defining new categories with the ambition to shape the future of information technology.

Total investments
50
Lead investments
8
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • CodeRabbit

    Participated · Series C · Aug 2026

    CodeRabbit offers an automated platform that uses AI agents to review freshly generated code in real time, catching syntax errors, logic bugs and security vulnerabilities as code is created. The company has expanded its offering with Agentic Change Management, which includes CodeRabbit Triage for scoring and routing pull requests, Change Stack for visualizing a change's impact on system behavior and dependencies, and CodeRabbit Security for full-repository scanning and continuous monitoring after code ships. Its tools validate incoming pull requests using repository-wide context and sandboxed test environments, and can generate recommended fixes that re-enter the pull request workflow. CodeRabbit has positioned the product to help teams prioritize and govern a rising volume of code changes originating from developers, nontechnical staff and automated agents. The company announced a $143 million Series C to accelerate these product capabilities and scale adoption. Prior investors such as CRV, Scale Venture Partners, Flex Capital and Pelion Venture Partners participated in the latest round.

  • Tidalwave

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

    Tidalwave has built a mortgage point-of-sale system that deploys specialized autonomous AI agents to handle traditionally manual tasks such as verification, underwriting, and data entry. Through direct integrations with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Plaid, Argyle, and Truv, the platform offers instant income, employment, asset, and underwriting checks, cutting approval times and paperwork for borrowers. Freddie Mac research cited by the company indicates its automation can lower origination costs by roughly $1,500 per loan while boosting lender margins and customer satisfaction. Early adopters include NEXA Lending, First Colony Mortgage, and Mortgage Solutions, and Tidalwave is projecting volume of more than 200,000 loans a year—about 4 % of projected 2026 U.S. mortgage originations. The company has raised a total of $24 million to date, including the newly closed Series A, to “supercharge” development of additional intelligent agents and speed market penetration. D.R. Horton, the nation’s largest homebuilder, is both an investor and enterprise customer, validating the platform’s industry relevance. Headquartered in New York, Tidalwave positions itself as a catalyst for faster, lower-cost, and more accessible home financing.

  • WideField Security

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

    WideField’s platform protects the full identity lifecycle by providing visibility into entitlements and credentials at rest, monitoring authentication and conditional access in motion, and modeling active sessions to detect threats while identities are in use. The company ingests telemetry from users, devices, and applications to build a live behavioral model that detects anomalies such as token misuse, impossible travel, unauthorized permission use, and data exfiltration patterns. Recent product updates extend coverage to agentic AI identities, including autonomous bots and agents operating with delegated authority. WideField describes its technology as patented and emphasizes real-time session detection and response across AI agents, non-human identities, and human identities. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

  • Hawcx

    Led · Seed · Mar 2025

    Hawcx offers a passwordless authentication platform that generates cryptographic private keys each time a user signs in, avoiding transmission or storage of private keys and enabling support for older devices. The company says developers can add its technology with five lines of code, and it positions itself as an alternative to standard passkeys by removing device and sync dependencies. Hawcx was founded in 2023 by Riya Shanmugam, CTO Selva Kumaraswamy, and chief scientist Ravi Ramaraju. The startup has filed patents for its approach but has not yet had deployments validated by third parties, which the article notes could hamper trust. Hawcx is preparing pilots with large banks, gaming companies, and ADP, with trials expected to run three to six months with a limited set of users. The company aims to evolve into a unified authentication platform and to integrate services like document verification, live video verification, and background checks over time.

  • Auditoria.AI

    Participated · Series B · Feb 2025

    Auditoria.AI develops agentic AI solutions called SmartBots that automate business processes in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to accelerate finance operations and cash performance. The company combines a proprietary specialized language model with multi‑model support for leading LLMs, integrating GPTs from OpenAI, Azure, LLaMa, and Google Gemini. SmartBots connect to systems of record and accounting inboxes to optimize vendor management, streamline collections, add procurement controls, accelerate data extraction, and handle finance inbox inquiries. Auditoria positions its product to reduce heavy IT involvement, lower attrition, improve business resilience, and accelerate insights for finance teams. Customers named in the article include Rocket Companies, RingCentral, Truist Insurance Holdings, Match Group, Ochsner Health System, StockX, Denny’s, Blackbaud, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospitals, and Iowa State University. Led by CEO Rohit Gupta, the company intends to use new funding to accelerate growth, drive product innovation, and expand global market reach. Auditoria builds AI-powered intelligent applications to help corporate finance teams automate processes in accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and vendor management. The company leverages natural language technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, OCR, and advanced RPA to remove repetitive tasks and automate complex functions. Auditoria provides real-time visibility into cash performance while minimizing heavy IT involvement. Customers named in the article include Bring IT, Folio3, Freshworks, GameChange Solar, Momentum Telecom, and UserTesting. The company plans to use new funding to enhance finance processes and accelerate cash performance through its AI technology. Rohit Gupta is the company’s CEO. Auditoria.AI provides a SaaS solution addressing enterprise finance back-office challenges by combining AI-based finance process automation with natural language–driven configuration and recommendation analytics. Its SmartFlow Skills automates mission-critical finance business processes, queries and reconciles data into financial systems of record, and applies modern machine learning for statistical and predictive analytics. The platform is designed to give companies rapid access to key financial indicators, accurate predictive recommendations, continuous audit-readiness, and to mitigate risks and reduce accounting errors. Auditoria.AI was founded in 2019 by Rohit Gupta and is based in Santa Clara, California. SmartFlow Skills is currently in limited availability for companies running Oracle NetSuite and Sage Intacct, with Workday support planned for the second half of 2020. The company raised $6M and intends to use the funds to continue expanding operations and its business reach.

Team

  • Ashmeet Sidana

    Founder, Chief Engineer and Managing Partner

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