1955 Capital

1955 Capital is a U.S. venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California (Silicon Valley), investing in the energy, environment, health, education, food, and technology sectors, with a specific focus on technology companies addressing developing-world / emerging-markets challenges. The firm was founded in 2015 by Andrew Chung (Founder and Managing Partner; previously Partner at Khosla Ventures, the prominent deep-tech / clean-tech VC led by Vinod Khosla) with a distinctive investment thesis of applying Silicon Valley-developed deep technologies to solve emerging-market problems aEUR" particularly through U.S.-China cross-border technology-transfer and commercialisation. The firm's name ''1955'' references the fact that more than half of the world's population was born after 1955, a demographic signal that shapes 1955 Capital's thesis around emerging-market scale. 1955 Capital has raised multiple institutional funds with aggregate AUM in the USD several hundred million to low-billion range, backed by notable Chinese and Asian LPs including the Hong Kong Jockey Club and various Asian family offices. Notable portfolio companies include QuantumScape (NYSE: QS, solid-state battery), Impossible Foods (plant-based meat), View Inc. (smart glass), Lilium (German eVTOL), and various other deep-technology companies.