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Newark Venture Partners Co-Leads Human Archive $8.2M Seed

Newark Venture Partners co-led Human Archive’s $8.2M seed for physical-AI training data and backed Vulcan Elements’ rare-earth magnet Series A.

Newark Venture Partners co-led Human Archive’s $8.2M seed (physical-AI training data) and backed Vulcan Elements’ rare-earth magnet Series A — both squarely in its vertical-AI and hard-tech thesis.

Key facts

  • Investor: Newark Venture Partners (NVP Capital)
  • Human Archive: $8.2M seed (May 2026), co-led with Wing Venture Capital; Y Combinator
  • Vulcan Elements: $65M Series A to onshore rare-earth magnets
  • Firm: Newark, NJ; vertical AI + B2B software

Why this matters

The deals show Newark Venture Partners deploying its new $200M+ Fund II into frontier physical-AI infrastructure and domestic hard-tech manufacturing.

Sources

  1. Human Archive $8.2M seed (co-led by NVP Capital): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/terencehbennett_silicon-valley-startup-human-archive-closed-activity-7467624697392701440-2-0p
  2. Newark Venture Partners portfolio (nvpcap.com): https://nvpcap.com/

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