Walden Catalyst Ventures
SelectiveFiled to raiseSan Francisco, CATelecom & networking, AI & machine learning, Robotics & hardwareLast fund filed 2026
1 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WCV IIFiled to raise in 2026, with no closing reported yet. | 2026 | $400M | $0 | 0 |
| Walden Catalyst Ventures | February 2021 | $601M | $601M | 112 |
| Walden Catalyst Ventures AIFiled to raise in 2021, with no closing reported yet. | 2021 | $30M | $0 | 0 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
1 partner is named across this firm’s filings, 1 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lip-Bu Tan | Selective | Telecom & networking, AI & machine learning, Robotics & hardware | 15 |
Categories of Walden Catalyst Ventures’s own portfolio companies, based on 13 with a verified or cited source.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Salience Capital Partners | 15 | Agita Labs, Berkeley Lights, Celestial AI, CNEX LABS, Credo Technology Group Holding, DataChat, GenXComm, INTEL, Movandi, NuVia, QUANTENNA COMMUNICATIONS, RF Pixels, SambaNova Systems, SiMa Technologies, Tagore Technology |
| Wrvi Capital | 15 | Agita Labs, Berkeley Lights, Celestial AI, CNEX LABS, Credo Technology Group Holding, DataChat, GenXComm, INTEL, Movandi, NuVia, QUANTENNA COMMUNICATIONS, RF Pixels, SambaNova Systems, SiMa Technologies, Tagore Technology |
| Amplify Partners | 1 |
| 2 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Walden Catalyst Ventures’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| SiMa Technologies |
| Cota Capital | 1 | Movandi |
| DNX Ventures | 1 | Movandi |
| Mayfield | 1 | NuVia |
| Playground Global | 1 | INTEL |
| Riverwood Capital | 1 | Berkeley Lights |
| Sierra Ventures | 1 | CNEX LABS |
| Technology Impact Fund | 1 | NuVia |
| Wing VC | 1 | SiMa Technologies |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Walden Catalyst Ventures partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.