Standard Investments
9 West 57th Street, 47th Floor, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Overview
Standard Investments is a venture capital firm concentrating on long-term investments in public markets spanning manufacturing, digital technologies, environmental technology, transportation and mobility, sustainability, and industrial sectors. The firm's focus lies on early-to-growth stage companies emphasizing technology and business model innovation, fostering data-driven approaches, customer-centricity, and environmental sustainability for businesses.
- Total investments
- 40
- Lead investments
- 9
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Finance
- Impact Investing
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- PhysicsX
Participated · Series C · Jun 2026
PhysicsX offers an AI-based engineering platform that predicts physical behavior in seconds rather than hours or days, enabling engineers to test many more design variations. Its platform is used across aerospace and defense, semiconductors, industrial machinery, automotive, energy and materials. The company plans to expand its platform capabilities, develop larger pre-trained "Large Physics Models," and grow its geographic presence including the U.S. and a new office in Singapore. Recent financing will fund that expansion and product development. Financially, PhysicsX reported rapid commercial momentum: it doubled recognized revenue and tripled booked revenue in the past year while more than doubling its customer count. The company has grown its team to over 300 employees in the last 12 months.
- Forterra
Participated · Equity · Aug 2025
Forterra develops hardware, edge-computing platforms, and an autonomous software stack that allow military and logistics fleets to move, sense, and act without human intervention. Its technology focus spans vehicle automation, command-and-control software, and communications modules, recently strengthened through the acquisition of mobile mesh-network company goTenna. The company has secured several high-profile U.S. Department of Defense awards, including the first ground-autonomy production contract for ROGUE Fires with the Marine Corps, a $114 million Army contract for autonomous breaching systems, Phase II of the Army’s GEARS program, and a $4.8 million Army UxS contract. Forterra is also partnering with Volvo Defense, BAE Systems, CHAOS Industries, and RTX’s Raytheon to integrate its systems across the broader defense ecosystem. With the new capital, Forterra plans to accelerate R&D in communications and C2 capabilities and scale production of its edge-computing platforms. The company’s growing roster of contracts and partnerships highlights increasing demand for interoperable autonomy in complex mission environments.
- Wi-Charge
Led · Series C · May 2025
Wi-Charge develops and commercializes long-range over-the-air wireless power using a proprietary infrared, physics-based approach that delivers several watts to devices over room-sized distances. The company has shifted from R&D to real-world deployment with multiple recent product launches, including the Wi-Poster 31-inch E-Ink display and wirelessly powered LCD video displays for retail. Its technology already supports smart home devices like Alfred smart locks and is deployed in the US, Europe and Asia. Backed by more than 200 patents and over a decade of research, Wi-Charge targets applications across hospitality, smart home, commercial, retail, mobile devices, AR and wearables. The company plans to scale production, accelerate OEM integrations, expand global distribution, and grow its commercialization team to meet rising partner demand.
- Sentra
Participated · Series B · Apr 2025
Sentra offers a cloud-native Data Security Platform (DSP) that scans data in customers' environments, delivering AI-powered classification (reported >95% accuracy) and posture management across multi-cloud, on-premises, and AI workflows. The platform emphasizes efficient scanning to reduce operational cost and scope while preserving data security posture, and it leverages large language models to adapt classification to business context. Sentra has added multiple Fortune 500 customers and reported more than 300% year-over-year revenue growth, positioning the company as a market mover in DSPM. The company is expanding its platform to address GenAI, AI assistants, and shadow data, adding detection and prevention capabilities to reduce data exposure and compliance gaps. Sentra plans to grow its team of data security experts and continue platform investment to help organizations adopt AI confidently without compromising data security. The company highlights industry recognition (GigaOm Radar: “Leader” and “Fast Mover”) and will be present at RSA Conference 2025 to showcase its offerings. Sentra builds a platform that discovers sensitive data in cloud environments, classifies it by sensitivity, and offers remediation plans and automated policies for data security teams. The software leverages algorithms and contextual signals such as access patterns and metadata to detect duplication, movement, or changes to data and to generate data access graphs showing who has access and how it was granted. Sentra also attempts to label proprietary assets (customer, HR and IP data) and can optionally send alerts or apply built-in data security policies when weak security posture or compliance violations are detected. The company targets cloud-native, medium- to large-sized organizations that hold data in the multiple petabytes. Sentra is headquartered in the U.S., was co-founded by Yoav Regev, Asaf Kochan, Ron Reiter and Yair Cohen (all former members of an Israel Defense Forces intelligence unit), and currently employs about 40 people. Management did not disclose customer counts or revenue, and the firm plans to grow headcount by "a couple dozen" by year-end while expanding its footprint beyond the U.S.
- KoBold Metals
Participated · Series C · Jan 2025
KoBold Metals applies machine learning to massive geological datasets to improve success rates in mineral exploration, particularly for copper. The company was founded in 2018 and uses AI to prioritize and target prospective deposits. KoBold plans to expand exploration efforts across five continents and to develop a large copper deposit it discovered in Zambia. The firm argues its approach can reduce the historically high risk in mining exploration by improving hit rates. KoBold operates amid rising strategic demand for critical minerals as U.S.–China tensions affect supply chains. Its recent financing signals strong investor confidence in both the technology and the Zambia project. KoBold Metals applies artificial intelligence to explore and identify deposits of cobalt, nickel, copper, and lithium beneath Greenland’s ice, targeting materials for EV batteries and renewable energy. The company was founded by Jeff Jurinak, Josh Goldman, Kurt House, and Kurt Zenz House and began operations roughly four years ago. KoBold has a team of about 30 geologists, geophysicists, and pilots conducting fieldwork on Disko Island and the Nuussuaq Peninsula. Its field program includes soil sampling and aerial scouting with drones and helicopters, and it partners with Bluejay Mining on exploration. The team plans to use AI next summer to pinpoint drilling targets and accelerate discovery. KoBold positions its work as enabling large-scale electrification by finding the critical metals needed for battery production.
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