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R136 Ventures Activity

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Investment

R136 Ventures participated in Digital Asset's $355M funding round led by a16z crypto, scaling the Canton Network as onchain infrastructure for capital markets.

Digital Asset

Digital Asset R136 Ventures

blog.digitalasset.comJUN 11, 2026

JUN 11, 2026

Essay

Victor Orlovski analyzes enterprise AI adoption patterns showing code, support, and search as leading use cases, with infrastructure providers positioned to win.

What 29% of the Fortune 500 figured out about AI that the rest haven't

r136ventures.substack.comJUN 10, 2026

JUN 10, 2026

Exit

Portfolio company GridGain acquired by MariaDB in in-memory data platform consolidation.

GridGain

GridGain R136 Ventures

r136.vcAPR 10, 2026

APR 10, 2026

Essay

Ratan Manehani explains R136's thesis for Deepgram: voice AI infrastructure as the critical interface layer for enterprise AI agent deployments at scale.

Why We Invested in Deepgram

r136ventures.substack.comMAR 12, 2026

MAR 12, 2026

Investment

R136 Ventures participated in Deepgram's $130M round at a $1.3B valuation, backing the voice AI infrastructure platform for enterprise AI agents at scale.

DeepGram

DeepGram R136 Ventures

r136ventures.substack.comJAN 2026

JAN 2026

Essay

Analysis by Denis Efremov ranking top-20 AI B2B companies by scaling metrics across October-November 2025.

Uncovering the AI B2B Scaling Stars: The Top-20 Leaderboard

r136ventures.substack.comDEC 2025

DEC 2025

Essay

Victor Orlovski reflects on Fund III thesis: AI applications over infrastructure, financial infrastructure in emerging markets, growth-stage valuation opportunities.

A Note on R136's New Fund

r136ventures.substack.comNOV 2025

NOV 2025