Active

Omni Ventures

Investor type

VC

Founded

2023

AUM

-

Location

San Jose, California, United States

Investment Ticket

$0-1 m

Investment Stage

Seed Pre-seed

Region of investment

Asia Europe North America
Investor profile last updated: 23 August, 2026

Profile

Omni Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Jose, California, focusing on manufacturing technology. Established by Simon Lancaster and Sabrina Paseman, former Apple engineers, the firm aims to drive innovation in digitizing the manufacturing sector. The team includes individuals with rich backgrounds at companies such as Google, Blackberry, and Boston Scientific, providing deep operating experience and technical insights to their investments. Omni Ventures emphasizes supporting founders by leveraging a global network of industrial executives and engineers.

The firm invests in pre-seed startups in sectors such as software, AI, robotics, and manufacturing automation, with check sizes ranging from $700,000 to $1 million. Their investment focus is on the digitization of the manufacturing value chain, robotics, and connectivity of industrial systems. Omni Ventures manages a $33 million fund, known as the Manufacturing Tech Fund, backed by Allocator One and multiple LPs across 14 countries.

Notable investments include Uptoo - an operating system for machine shops, Rembrain - an AI-guided production line system, and AI-NC - a CAD error-detection tool. Other portfolio companies include Tripolar - a physical platform for industrial facilities, and Mimiq - a logistics digitization solution.

Industry

Industrial Robotics SaaS Software AI Internet of Things (IoT) Logistics Manufacturing

Omni Ventures Funds

Name Type
Questionare
Industry
Questionare
Stage
Questionare
Region
Size AUM Launch date
Fund I
Venture Capital (VC)
Industrial
Robotics
Software
AI
Manufacturing
Pre-seed
North America
$0-1 m
$33 M
July 2026

Contacts

Name
Title
Email
avatar
Simon Lancaster General Partner
General Partner
s•••@•••
avatar
Sabrina Paseman General Partner
General Partner
s•••@•••
Upgrade to see contacts
avatar
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
avatar
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
avatar
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
gnbUyJmrOAF9ftEd
Investment-team contacts for Omni Ventures — including verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — are available to Private Equity List subscribers.
Instant access on the web. Plans from $129/month — see pricing.
Contacts sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn, re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.

FAQs about Omni Ventures

Omni Ventures is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Seed and Pre-seed, writing tickets of $0-1 m.
Omni Ventures is located in San Jose, California, United States.
Omni Ventures was founded in 2023.
Omni Ventures invests in companies and startups in Industrial, Robotics, SaaS, Software, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), Logistics, Manufacturing.
Omni Ventures invests in companies and startups in Asia, Europe, North America.
Omni Ventures invests in companies and startups at Seed, Pre-seed.
Omni Ventures usually invests $0-1 m on average.
Omni Ventures last fund was created/launched in 2026-07-07
Omni Ventures can be reached through its website omnivl.com, its LinkedIn page and its X account. Cold-mailing a general inbox rarely reaches a partner, so Private Equity List also lists the investment-team contacts for Omni Ventures — names, roles, verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — available on a Pro plan from $129/month (see pricing). Contacts are sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn and re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.
Yes. Every field on this page — profile, funds, investment criteria, portfolio and investment-team contacts — is available programmatically through the Private Equity List REST API and MCP server, so AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can query Omni Ventures directly instead of scraping this page. One subscription covers both the web app and machine access — see API & MCP.
Private Equity List re-verifies investor profiles on a rolling cycle, pulling from the firm's own website and LinkedIn rather than a one-off import. This profile was last updated on 23 August, 2026. Something out of date here? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.