News Summary

• Eclipse has invested in electric boat developer Arc, self-driving construction vehicle startup Bedrock Robotics, autonomous vehicle tech company Wayve, and industrial robotics lab Mind Robotics.
• The Palo Alto-based VC is looking to invest across all physical sectors, including transportation, energy, infrastructure, compute, and defense.
• The interesting part, as Behl described it, is a strategy to build a web, or ecosystem of startups in overlapping fields that will likely become partners as they scale.
• “Scale is so important, and if you can put it together in a way where companies partner early on to build scale, to build proof points, it just then enables them to go after the next set of demand,” Behl said.