DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / The Engine Funds
The Engine Funds
Institutional venture firmCambridge, MAengineventures.comSEC venture capital fund adviserfundraising evidenceone firm, 2 filing advisers
This firm files as 2 advisers on engineventures.com: The Engine Accelerator, Inc.. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
We invest in Tough Tech founders.
venture manager, reported GAV $1,293M across 12 vehicles
Importance
63
high
Active deployment
90
high
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
30
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 750 MAIN STREET, Cambridge, MA, 02139adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 617-297-7485adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 30, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 10 (10 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $1.6Badviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 617-546-3920adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 617-297-7485adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
54 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, climate, energy, deep tech, hardware, space, logistics, industrial
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- global
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 70%Biotechnology 9%Other Energy 8%Other Technology 8%Other 6%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 52
Funds and vehicles
12 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Engine Fund I Spv-D, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2023 form d first sale | Active deployment | $9.1M Mar 28, 2024 | 2 | $14.0M of $14.0M | Jan 17, 2024 |
| Engine Fund III, L.P. | Fund | 2023 form d first sale | Active deployment | unknown | unknown | $398M of $398M | Jun 18, 2024 |
| The Engine Fund I Spv-B, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2021 form d first sale | Mature | $9.9M Mar 28, 2024 | 19 | $9.6M of $9.6M | Oct 12, 2021 |
| The Engine Fund I Spv-A, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2020 form d first sale | Mature | $28.6M Mar 28, 2024 | 11 | $9.9M of $9.9M | Nov 25, 2020 |
| The Engine Accelerator Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $502M Mar 28, 2024 | 60 | $0 | Apr 5, 2017 |
| The Engine Fund III, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $302M Mar 28, 2024 | 56 | $0 | May 4, 2023 |
| The Engine Fund II, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $298M Mar 28, 2024 | 57 | $0 of $250M | Mar 30, 2020 |
| The Engine Follow-On Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $133M Mar 28, 2024 | 52 | $0 of $150M | Nov 9, 2021 |
| The Engine Fund I Spv-C, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | unknown | Unknown | $10.0M Mar 28, 2024 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
| Engine Ventures Scale Up Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Fundraising | unknown | unknown | $0 of $500M | May 27, 2026 |
| Engine Fund I SPV-F, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | unknown | Unknown | unknown | unknown | $0 of $9.5M | Feb 21, 2025 |
| Engine Fund I SPV-E, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | unknown | Unknown | unknown | unknown | $0 of $6.5M | Oct 1, 2024 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
29 current, 1 departed
Esha Patel
AnalystFinancial Analyst
Sophia Cohen
AnalystAnalyst
Deepa Rao
AssociateAssociate
ANN Dewitt
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
ANN E. Dewitt
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
Israel Ruiz
General partnerPresident & General Partner
Israel Ruiz
General partnerPresident & General Partner · since Jan 1, 2024
Michael J. Kearney
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Nov 1, 2023
Michael Kearney
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Nov 1, 2023
Michael Kearney
General partnerGeneral Partner
Reed P Sturtevant
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
Reed P Sturtevant
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
Reed Sturtevant
General partnerGeneral Partner
Katherine W. Rae
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
Katherine Wyeth Rae
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since Jun 1, 2023
Katie Rae
Managing partnerCEO & Managing Partner
Dan Resnicow
Operating partnerOperating Partner
David Bradwell
Operating partnerOperating Partner
Darby Dunn
OtherExecutive in Residence
Colleen Calhoun
PartnerPartner
Vinny Beranek
PartnerPartner
Bettina Metais
Platform and operationsVice President of Finance & Operations
Jen Lichtman
Platform and operationsGeneral Counsel
Lizzie Raymer
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant
Sarah (Keane) Jessen
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant
Streeter Phillips
Platform and operationsHead of Platform
Rachel Field
PrincipalPrincipal
Richard Collins
PrincipalSenior Director of Research & Analytics
Alaina Hartnett
Vice presidentSenior Associate
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Milo Camp Peavey Werner · General Partner · Jun 1, 2023 to Mar 30, 2026 Fact
Investments on record
54 edges, 53 companies, 5 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
17 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
E14 Management, LLC 3 shared · recurringHyperplane Venture Capital 2 shared · recurringPrime Movers Lab LLC 1 shared · one timeAurelia Foundry Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeDorm Room Fund 1 shared · one timeInter-Atlantic Energy Capital Ventures, Inc. 1 shared · one timeAzolla Management Company, LP 1 shared · one timeSpero Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeCitta Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeConstruct Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timePathbreaker Ventures II, LLC 1 shared · one timePillar Companies Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeMCJ Venture Management 1 shared · one timeMaterial Impact Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeLowercarbon Capital 1 shared · one timeEL Cap Holdings Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeWalden Catalyst 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
5 dated events
- Mar 30, 2026Milo Camp Peavey Werner (General Partner) no longer on Schedule A of The Engine Funds
- Mar 28, 2024The Engine Fund I Spv-D, LLC first reported on Form ADV by The Engine Funds (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $9,102,103Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactThe Engine Fund I Spv-D, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Nov 1, 2023Michael Kearney joined Schedule A of The Engine Funds as General Partner
- Jun 21, 2023FWH Management Company, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jun 21, 2023The Engine Fund III, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by FWH Management Company, LLC (Venture Capital Fund)Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactThe Engine Fund III, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $1,293M across 12 vehicles
- Sep 14, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $1,293M across 9 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $1,293M across 8 vehicles
Evidence
49 observations from 4 sources