A venture capital firm investing in the strategic industries of tomorrow

About Us

East X Ventures is the venture capital arm of East X, a London based quantitative systematic research and investment firm operating across global commodity markets.

Our VC, East X Ventures, invests in early-stage, science-led companies with high-growth, world-scale potential.

Leveraging East X's expertise and knowledge of commodities, energy and supply-chains combined with our science, technology, software and AI first approaches, we back the scientists and engineers redefining and building entire industries at international scale.

Our approach combines early-stage capital with deep market insight to support transformative innovation and long-term impact.

For more information, please contact us at info@eastxventures.com

East X Investments

Uncertainty quantification to help engineering industries optimise their complex systems

Starmaker One
Seed|2024

Lab-grown animal fat

East Innovate
Series-A|2024

Technology for recovering critical minerals from volcanoes

East Innovate
Seed|2024

Humanoid robots targeting labour shortages

East Innovate
Series-A|2023

Quantum networks to unlock commercial quantum computing scale-out

East Innovate
Seed|2023

Compute efficient adaptive intelligence for industrial control systems

Starmaker One
Seed|2023

Launch, operate and coordinate multiple markets for flexibility and distributed energy

East Innovate
Seed|2023

Compact fusion power for places where energy access has been a challenge

Starmaker One
Series-A|2023

Seagliders to move people and goods between coastal cities

East Innovate
Series-A|2023

AI to simplify, automate and accelerate simulation tasks

Starmaker One
Series-A|2023

Cell technologies to revolutionise global food production, starting with pork

East Innovate
Series-A|2023

Physics-driven generative design software for engineering

East Innovate
Seed|2022

Commercialising fusion energy and HTS magnet technology

Starmaker One
Series-C|2022

Cell biology for therapeutics and the lab-grown meat industries

East Innovate
Seed|2022

Team

Our dedicated team of professional venture investors is supported by the wider East X organisation, bringing world-class operational capabilities as well as deep technical, scientific and engineering expertise.

Rory Scott Russell

Rory Scott Russell

General Partner

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