How many investments has AI Fund made?

AI Fund has 62 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 13 dated in the last 24 months.

What stage does AI Fund invest at?

AI Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.

What is AI Fund's typical check size?

AI Fund typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.

Where is AI Fund located?

AI Fund is headquartered in Mountain View, US.

Does AI Fund lead rounds?

Yes, AI Fund leads investment rounds.

Who does AI Fund co-invest with?

AI Fund most often shares deals with Magnify Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Battery Ventures, among 55 tracked co-investors.

AI Fund

Venture studiooperating company · company profile

Mountain View · Pre-Seed–Series A · 46 people tracked

Also known as AI FUND GROWTH VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC · AI VENTURES MANAGEMENT II, LLC · AI VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC

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Investment thesis

AI Fund operates as a venture studio, partnering with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to rapidly build new AI companies and improve their odds of success. It backs founders with deep technical expertise and clear vision for applying AI in their fields, pairing them with a proven company-building methodology to validate, build, and scale ventures within roughly three months. Its focus spans AI applications addressing real-world problems at scale, from helping first responders and simplifying supply chains to transforming how governments deliver services. The studio is supported by top-tier VCs and partners including Sequoia Capital, NEA, Nikkei, and AES.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Consumer EdTech Enterprise Software Fintech Healthtech Media & Entertainment Retail Tech SaaS Europe Global Mountain View Palo Alto United States

Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Series A

Check

$100K – $1M

Mountain View, California, US

Leads rounds

Leads

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2018

Last 12 months

5 investments

AUM

$370M

VC funds

Tracked investments

Unicorns

Acquisitions

Team · 46 people

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Kirsty Tan· General Partner, AI Fund Growth Fund· San Francisco Bay Areain

Kirsty Tan is a General Partner at AI Fund Growth Fund. She has experience across technology, strategy, consulting, and academia, and works as a mentor and advisor in these domains.

Andy Ku· Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain

Andy Ku is a Partner at AI Fund who works across technology, entrepreneurship, and government sectors. His experience includes leading venture investments at IQT focused on workforce development, founding a job-matching technology company, directing product marketing for LinkedIn's job seeker platform, serving as a White House Fellow with the U.S. Labor Department on AI-driven veteran employment matching, and mentoring at Year Up.

Eli Chen· Technology Partner· San Mateo, California, United Statesin

Andrew Ng· Managing General Partner· Palo Alto, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Andrew Ng is a trained engineer who still codes and prototypes with founders, co-founds and shapes products in a studio-style, educates the ecosystem on AI, and champions lean, capital-efficient building.

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Eva Wang· Partner· United Statesin

Eva Wang is Partner, COO, and General Counsel at AI Fund, where she oversees finance, legal, HR, investor relations, and office administration, and was part of the firm's founding team. A corporate securities lawyer, she previously was a partner in the corporate practice at Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West, advising technology startups and venture capital firms, and led the opening of Shanghai offices for two US law firms. She holds a law degree from New York University and a bachelor's in economics and statistics from the University of Western Ontario, and is fluent in Mandarin.

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Maximilian Seeburg· Principal· Stockholm, Swedenin

Anthony Soohoo· Advisor· Dallas, Texas, United Statesin 𝕏

A technology and digital transformation executive with over 25 years of experience, having held CEO, Fortune 100 executive, entrepreneur, and board roles at companies including Walmart, CBS, Yahoo!, and Apple. He founded Dotspotter (acquired by CBS) and Dot & Bo (now part of Alibaba), holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and serves on boards including Spryker Systems and Civio.ai.

Bill MacCartney· AI Fund Fellow· Palo Alto, California, United Statesin

Bill MacCartney is CTO in Residence at SignalFire. He previously served as VP of Machine Learning at Cohere, where he led a team of 50+ scientists and engineers on large language models, and held roles including Director of Proactive Intelligence at Apple, Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Managing Director at BlackRock, and Senior Research Scientist at Google.

Brendan Marx· Engineer· San Diego, California, United Statesin

Dan Landau· Sr. Marketing Manager· New York City Metropolitan Areain

Dan Landau is Head of Marketing at AI Fund, Andrew Ng's venture studio, where he leads marketing strategy, event production, and advisory services for early-stage founding teams. He has built marketing functions from scratch at multiple organizations and has authored and illustrated Fearless Portraits: Women Who Dared to Transform the World, a collection of historical profiles.

Daniel Macklin· Venture Advisor· Boston, Massachusetts, United Statesin

Daniel Macklin is President of Summer and co-founder of SoFi, which went public at a valuation exceeding $18 billion. He previously served as CEO of Salary Finance Inc and currently holds board positions and advisory roles at early-stage companies while making angel investments. Macklin has been featured in major publications including Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, and has lectured at Stanford University.

David Sobie· Venture Advisor· Santa Monica, California, United Statesin

Dean Sysman· Venture Advisor· New York, New Yorkin 𝕏

Dean Sysman is Executive Chair and Co-Founder of Axonius, a cybersecurity company that reached $2.6 billion valuation and $100 million ARR within five years of its founding, which he led as CEO for nine years. He conducts research at Columbia University at the intersection of systems and artificial intelligence, and serves on the boards of Olakai, Lasso Security, and SecurityScorecard, with an investment portfolio spanning over 20 early-stage companies including three unicorns. Sysman is a graduate of computer science from the Israeli special "Etgar" program and a former captain in the Israeli Intelligence Corps.

Ellen Li· CFO· Atlanta Metropolitan Areain

Ellen Li is Chief Financial Officer at AI Fund, the venture studio founded by Andrew Ng, where she oversees finance, valuation, fundraising, and investor relations while supporting early-stage portfolio companies. She holds credentials as a CPA, CA, and CFA Charterholder, and brings prior experience as CFO of a Boston-based healthtech startup and in leading finance for the Private Equity division at Fengate Asset Management. Li began her career at KPMG and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Emil Stefanutti· Venture Advisor· Houston, Texas, United Statesin

Emil Stefanutti is co-founder and CEO of Gaia Dynamics, a trade technology company focused on global trade compliance. He previously founded Shoppr.tv, an ad tech platform for shoppable television advertising, and co-founded ContractRoom, a legal tech company acquired by Mitratech in 2021. Stefanutti has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience across technology, media, and design sectors, and holds a degree in Design from Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.

Jill Shih· General Manager, Taiwan· Taiwanin

Jill Shih serves as General Manager for Taiwan at AI Fund. With over 25 years of experience in product user experience and project management across mobile internet, internet, and software sectors, she has previously led cross-regional teams at companies including Good Finance, ZA International, Cobinhood, Cheetah Mobile, NQ Mobile, Microsoft, and Trend Micro across Taiwan, China, Japan, and Hong Kong. She began her career in software development at Sprint in the United States.

Johnny Lee· AI Fund Fellow· Redmond, Washington, United Statesin

Johnny Lee is founder of LGI Tech, LLC. He has led technical programs that reached tens of millions to billions of users. His work spans AI for wearables, spatial computing, robotic training from human demonstrations, and depth camera technology, with a focus on advancing early-stage technologies from research to production. He has been recognized as a TED speaker and TR35 honoree.

Jon Zemmelman· Sr. Executive Recruiter

Laurence Moroney· AI Fund Fellow· Sammamish, Washington, United Statesin 𝕏

Laurence Moroney is Director of Artificial Intelligence at Arm and an investor and advisor to AI companies across the startup and enterprise sectors. Previously, he spent over a decade as an AI Lead at Google, where he worked across research, product development, and developer advocacy, growing the developer ecosystem and launching products serving millions of users. He is a Fellow at the AI Fund, a best-selling author, and has advised startups on healthcare and environmental applications of AI.

Michelle Lee· Sr. Executive Assistant· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Miguel Paredes· AI Fund Fellow· San Francisco Bay Areain

Miguel Paredes is an AI Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School with a PhD in Applied AI and Data Science from MIT and undergraduate training in computer science. He has worked as a generative AI and data science consultant, advised startups and venture capital firms, and holds experience in strategy, machine learning, analytics, and causal inference. His technical expertise spans A/B testing, econometrics, optimization, and impact evaluation methodologies.

Mike Rubino· Head of Talent· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Mike Rubino is Head of Talent at AI Fund, Andrew Ng's venture studio, where he identifies and hires technical founders and CEOs for newly formed AI companies. Previously, he scaled recruiting functions at Neuralink (growing the company from 40 to 275+ employees), Chef Robotics, and Promise, a Series B govtech company. He co-founded Syelo Ventures, a community for early-stage talent leaders, and develops recruiting tools using AI and software platforms.

Monte Zweben· Venture Advisor· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Monte Zweben is Co-Founder and CEO of ControlRooms.ai, an AI troubleshooting platform. He is a serial entrepreneur with previous exits including the $2.9 billion IPO of Blue Martini Software and the $225 million acquisition of Red Pepper Software by PeopleSoft. Zweben holds positions on the Dean's Advisory Board at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and has served as a public board member for Rocket Fuel and Advent Software, while maintaining expertise in artificial intelligence through patents, academic publications, and prior management of NASA's principal AI laboratory.

Natalia Urrego· Operations Manager of Colombia· Colombiain

Natalia Urrego is Operations Manager Colombia at AI Fund. She holds a degree in economics and an International Business Administration qualification, with over twenty years of experience in administration, treasury, finance, controlling, and import-export operations. She is bilingual in Spanish and English, holds a current B1/B2 USA visa, and has proficiency in office applications.

Nikki Angco· Chief of Staff to Andrew Ngin

Philippe Chambadal· Venture Advisor· New York, New York, United Statesin

Phillip Chang· Venture Advisor· Palo Alto, California, United Statesin

Phillip Chang is a venture advisor at AI Fund with over 30 years of experience building and scaling technology companies across Taiwan, China, and the United States. He co-founded and served as general manager of Ayla Networks' Asia Pacific operations, where he established the Greater China region, built a team of 60+ employees, and supported the company through four funding rounds totaling over $130 million. Previously, he held executive positions at ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip), Broadweb (acquired by Trend Micro), and Linkpeople, and has taught corporate groups and advised startups in Taiwan and Shanghai. Chang holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MS from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Rakesh Utekar· Technical Builder· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Rakesh Utekar is a Technical Builder and AI Engineer at AI Fund with experience in retrieval-augmented generation, speech-to-speech systems, and vector databases. He is pursuing a Master of Computer Science with a Data Science specialization at Seattle University, where he serves as a Teaching Assistant for Visual Analytics, and previously interned as a Machine Learning Engineer at SlashRTC, where he built speech-to-text models using Python and TensorFlow.

Rishabh Singhal· Principal Builder· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Rishabh Singhal is a Principal at AI Fund, Andrew Ng's venture studio, where he leads applied AI product development and company formation. He has guided products through customer discovery, technical validation, deployment, and commercialization across AI Fund and four early-stage software and hardware companies, including helping establish two funded AI startups. His background includes product, analytics, and strategy roles at Kodiak Robotics, Sofar Ocean, Uber, and Kearney, with experience spanning enterprise AI, autonomous systems, AI security, and physical-world technology.

Rob Solomon· Venture Advisor𝕏

Robert Schulte· Venture Advisor

Ross Saario· Venture Advisor

Ruby Valderrama· Sr. Accountant

Sarah Daniels· Venture Advisor· Boston, Massachusetts, United Statesin

Sarah Daniels is a board member at Rypple.ai who works as an independent board director and advisor to CEOs. Over more than 30 years, she has served as a founder, CEO, and C-level leader at startups and public companies, including five venture-backed software and AI firms she helped guide through growth, strategy shifts, fundraising, B2B and B2C sales, global partnerships, and acquisitions. Her work has spanned ed tech, healthcare, network security, and real estate services, with focus areas including product-market fit, scaling, corporate strategy, and M&A.

Scott C. Taylor· Venture Advisor

Shan Sinha· Venture Advisor

Shannon Lieu· Assistant General Counsel· San Francisco Bay Areain

Shannon Lieu is Assistant General Counsel at AI Fund. She has advised technology and life sciences startups through formation, financing, and exit stages, drawing on experience as a former CPA and legal background.

Sharbani Roy· AI Fund Fellow

Terry Boyle· Venture Advisor· Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Thomas Kiessling· Venture Advisor· Palo Alto, California, United Statesin

Thomas Kiessling is the Chief Executive Officer of PassiveLogic, working in the clean technology, energy, and industrial IoT sectors. He previously served as Chief Development Officer and Business Unit CEO at Siemens, where he established Building-X, eMobility as a Service, and Energy as a Service beginning in 2021, and co-founded AmplyPower in 2019, which was acquired by BP in 2021. His earlier roles include COO of Symphony.com and CEO of Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile's Digital Business Unit, and he has held board positions including strategic advisor to Aigen.io and Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Scout24.

Tim Westergren· Venture Advisor

TJ Kennedy· Venture Advisor

Carlos Alzate· CTO· Boca Raton, Florida, United States

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Paul Chiarelli· Venture Advisor and Board Member· Ottawa, Ontario, Canadain

Phoebe Wang· SME Advisor· San Francisco, Californiain

Phoebe Wang is a Partner at WI Harper Group in the firm's Beijing office, focusing on advanced technology and new energy investments. Before joining WI Harper, she worked as a manager at Kingsoft Co., Ltd., where she handled product, marketing, online games, growth strategy, and game publishing. She holds an MBA from Tsinghua University and a B.E. from Dalian Maritime University.

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Rotimi Tijani· Venture Advisor / Board Member· Toronto, Ontario, Canadain

Rotimi Tijani leads DMZ's Black Innovation Programs, designing programming and mentoring founders. He has experience launching e-commerce ventures in Nigeria and supporting founders across North America, with a background in venture capital and startup ecosystems.

Founder mafia

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16 people who came through AI Fund went on to found or lead other companies.

Ryan HowardVenture AdvisorFounded Practice Fusion +5 Andrew NgManaging General PartnerFounded Factored +3 Fahad AzizFounder in ResidenceFounded PuppyDog +2 Monte ZwebenVenture AdvisorFounded Splice Machine +1 Robert SchulteVenture AdvisorFounded Lumatax +1 Jennifer WongFounder in ResidenceFounded AI Fund +1 Mark WatsonFounder in ResidenceFounded Vidably +1 Joseph HannaFounder in ResidenceFounded Haven Safety +1 Eli ChenTechnology PartnerFounded Credo AI Daniel MacklinVenture AdvisorFounded Salary Finance David SobieVenture AdvisorFounded Happy Returns Dean SysmanVenture AdvisorFounded Cymmetria

+ 4 more

What they invest in

from 48 of 62 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×44SaaS ×22Enterprise Software ×20Developer Tools ×7Fintech ×7Cybersecurity ×6Data & Infrastructure ×5Digital Health ×5

HQs:United States×13Germany×2

Who they back

founder profiles across 19 portfolio companies

53%

solo founders

10 of 19 mapped founding teams

72%

repeat founders

of 25 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×102 founders×53 founders×34+ founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 22 founders with education data

University of California, Berkeley ×3Carnegie Mellon University ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 20 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×9Engineering ×7Business & Management ×4Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 25 founders with career history

Gumroad ×2Landing AI ×2Stanford University ×2USC Information Sciences Institute ×2

4 founders hold a PhD · 6 hold an MBA (of 22 with degree data)

Investments · 62 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 4 2025 · 5 2024 · 12 2023 · 2 2021 · 3 2019 · 127 dated

Civio AIcivio.ai in 𝕏✓ verified

Civio provides an AI-powered platform that connects revenue teams' tools, knowledge, and workflows to reduce manual work and operational friction.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Anindo Banerjea(Founder)inJames Ha(Founder)in

Co-investorsGovtech Ventures

Haven Safetyhavensafety.com in✓ verified

Haven provides an AI-powered platform for incident investigation and root cause analysis that collects witness statements, reconstructs timelines, and generates corrective actions across manufacturing, utilities, construction, and other industrial sectors.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Joseph Hanna(Co-Founder & CEO)in Jim Wang(Co-Founder & CTO)in

Octagonoctagonai.co in 𝕏✓ verified

Octagon AI operates a public prediction market and forecasting platform that aggregates market-implied predictions for company KPIs (deliveries, subscribers, orders, DAU, etc.) and compares them against Octagon's proprietary quantitative models.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechSaaS

Ken So(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-investorsInception Studio Capital

Octagonoctagonfi.com in 𝕏✓ verified

Octagon provides research reports and analytics for prediction markets, comparing model-generated probabilities to live market prices to identify pricing gaps ("edge").

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintech

Co-investorsZelda Ventures

PuppyDogpuppydog.io in 𝕏Aug 2024✓ verified

PuppyDog.io is an AI agent platform that automatically generates and delivers personalized product videos for marketing campaigns, user onboarding, team training, and sales.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSMountain View, US

Fahad Aziz(Founder and CEO)inPierce Gaynor(Head of Product)inMuneeb Khawaja(VP of Engineering)in

SpeechLabspeechlab.ai in✓ verified

Speechlab is a speech-to-speech AI platform that localizes and makes video and audio content accessible across 50+ languages through dubbed audio, translated captions, and subtitles, with an editing suite for quality control.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & Entertainment

Ryan Medlin(Founder)inJayadev Billa(Founder)in

Co-investorsGrit Capital Partners

Vocal Bridgevocalbridgeai.com in✓ verified

Vocal Bridge provides a developer SDK and CLI for adding real-time voice interaction to AI applications, letting apps embed bidirectional voice with UI actions, turn any text-based LLM agent into a voice agent, and place outbound phone calls.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

10Web10web.io in 𝕏Jul 2021 · $2M

10Web provides a white-labeled website generation API that enables platforms to automatically create WordPress sites from user-submitted business data, assets, and branding information.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Sergey Markosyan(Co-founder & CTO)inArmen Saghatelyan(Co-founder & CDO)Tigran Nazaryan(Co-founder & CInO)Narek Torosyan(CEO)in

Co-investorsFormula VC Sierra Ventures

Affineonaffineon.com inFeb 2025 · $5M

Affineon Health builds automation tools for healthcare providers and care teams, reducing administrative and tedious tasks so clinicians can focus on patient care.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech

Ryan Van Wert(Physician Executive / Co-founder)inEvan(Executive (former COO Zus Health, CPO Codametrix, CPO Innovaccer))Tony(CTO)Dan(CFO & COO)Abid Siddiqui(Chief Operating Officer)in

Co-investorsBenhamou Global Ventures City Light Headwater Ventures Loup Ventures Signal Peak Ventures

Basetenbaseten.co in 𝕏Jun 2026

Baseten provides AI inference and infrastructure services that optimize model deployment, serving, and orchestration across the full stack.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Tuhin Srivastava(CEO and Co-Founder)in Amir Haghighat(CTO and Co-Founder)inPhil Howes(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)in Pankaj Gupta(Co-Founder)inPhilip Howes(Co-Founder and Chief Scientist)inDanielle Herzberg(Executive Officer)

Co-investors01 Advisors Alpha Partners Aspire11 Athletic Ventures Battery Ventures Blackbird Ventures +23 more

Bearingbearing.ai in

Bearing AI provides AI-powered intelligence for the maritime and global supply chain sector, offering insights on vessel availability, fuel consumption, freight rates, and port congestion using large language models and proprietary shipping data.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Co-investorsAZ-VC High Alpha Lightbank PHX Ventures

Biztripbiztrip.ai in

BizTrip AI is an AI-powered travel agent for corporate employees that handles the full business trip lifecycle—booking air, hotel, and ground transport, applying travel policy, and automatically rebooking when fares drop—using Sabre inventory.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSTravel & Hospitality

Tom Romary(Founder and CEO)in Andrew Ng(Cofounder)in Scott Persinger(Cofounder and CTO)in

Co-investorsCorrelation Ventures RRE Ventures

BNTObnto.comOct 2025 · $15M

BNTO operates a clothing and accessories rental subscription service that allows customers to select and rotate designer pieces monthly without committing to ownership.

B2B MarketplacesCircular EconomyConsumer

Co-investorsBasis Set Ventures Notable Capital New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

CallidusAI inJan 2024 · $10M

Mckinney, US

Justin Ray McCallon(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Stolzenberg(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardTaylor Oliver(Director)Emil Stefanutti(Director)in

Co-investorsActive Capital Capital Factory CERVIN VENTURES Myriad Venture Partners Tandem Ventures

Common Sense Privacycommonsenseprivacy.net in

Common Sense Privacy offers a compliance platform powered by privacy and legal experts to help businesses navigate evolving privacy regulations and implement privacy best practices.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS

Co-investorsMagnify Ventures

Credo AIcredo.ai in 𝕏

Credo AI provides an AI governance platform that integrates policy and regulatory requirements into technical implementation, serving enterprises, policymakers, and regulators seeking to ensure AI systems remain compliant, safe, and responsible.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSector Agnostic

Navrina Singh(CEO and Founder)in

Co-investorsBooz Allen Ventures Decibel Partners FPV Mozilla Ventures

Crewaicrewai.com in 𝕏Series A · Oct 2024 · $12M

CrewAI provides an enterprise platform for discovering, building, deploying, and governing AI agents that automate workflows across business applications, with no-code multi-agent workflow creation and observability.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

João (Joe) Moura(Co-founder)inRob Bailey(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsboldstart ventures Craft Ventures Dallas Venture Capital Earl Grey Capital FirsthandVC Flybridge Capital Partners +2 more

Dealcodedealcode.ai inSeed · Sep 2024

dealcode offers an AI-powered B2B sales suite that de-anonymizes business website visitors, finds decision-makers with their business emails and phone numbers, and writes them into the CRM through automated workflows.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

AlexanderDennis

Co-investorsHeartfelt Capital

Esteamesteam.ai in 𝕏Acquired

Esteam builds an AI-powered reading tool, Esteam Reader, that uses speech recognition and generative AI to assess reading and create personalized stories and assessments for children.

AI & Machine LearningEdTech

Jennifer Wong(Founder)in

Co-investorsBoutique Venture Partners First Row Partners Magnify Ventures

Factoredfactored.ai in 𝕏

Factored provides vetted AI, machine learning, and data engineers to enterprises through embedded engineering teams, managed services, and advisory, working in U.S. time zones.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Andrew Ng(Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsAmity Ventures BAM Ventures Dynamo Ventures

Feenyxfeenyx.ai in 𝕏

Feenyx is a talent acquisition software company that provides recruiting and hiring teams with tools designed to streamline candidate sourcing, evaluation, and placement through AI-powered recommendations and insights.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Freight Herofreighthero.ai in

Freight Hero provides an AI-powered managed service for freight brokers that handles load operations from rate confirmation through POD collection, including dispatching, tracking, check-ins, and issue escalation.

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSPalo Alto, US

Andre André Luis Martins Filho(Founder)in

Co-investorsCowboy Ventures Dynamo Ventures Field Ventures

Gaia Dynamicsgaiadynamics.ai in 𝕏Pre-Seed · Feb 2025 · $1.5M

Gaia Dynamics provides AI-driven tariff classification and real-time tracking of tariff changes to help businesses calculate accurate duty rates for international shipments.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSPalo Alto, US

James Gregory Johnston(Director)Thomas Gould(Director)

Board Emil Stefanutti(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in David Sobie(Director)in

Co-investorsZenda

Hirundohirundo.io inSeed · Jun 2025 · $8M

Hirundo provides machine unlearning technology that detects and removes specific weaknesses, biases, jailbreak vulnerabilities, and unwanted data from AI models without requiring full retraining.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Rhodes Scholar (name not provided)(CEO)

Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence Capital SuperSeed Tachles VC ManchesterStory Group, LLC Maverick Ventures Israel

IPerceptipercept.io inSeed · May 2025 · $6M

IPercept provides condition monitoring and predictive maintenance for CNC machines, collecting motion and vibration data via a smart device on the machine's kinematic chain to detect developing faults in components like axes, spindles, and joints.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoT

Karoly Szipka in Andreas Archenti(Professor)in

Co-investorsBackstage AB J12 Ventures Luminar Ventures RunwayFBU

IrisGoirisgo.ai in 𝕏May 2026 · $2.8M

IrisGo is an AI-powered automation platform that observes user workflows and autonomously executes tasks across desktop applications and tools without manual configuration.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkPalo Alto, US

Jeffrey Lai(Founder)in

Co-investorsNVIDIA

Jivijivi.ai in 𝕏Seed · Oct 2024

Jivi is an AI-powered clinical platform offering MedX AI Agents and a HealthOS system that provide diagnostic support, lab report analysis, personalized health recommendations, and 24/7 medical guidance to consumers.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech

Kirakira-learning.com in 𝕏Apr 2023

Kira is an AI-based learning platform that combines instruction, assessment, and intervention into a single system, replacing disconnected education software tools.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaSPalo Alto, US

Andrea Pasinetti(Executive Officer, Director)inJagriti Agrawal(Cofounder)

Board Carmen Chang(Director)in Andrew Ng(Director)in Eva Wang(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)AI Venture Blockchange Ventures Grit Capital Partners Grit Ventures

Laminilamini.aiSeries A · Apr 2024 · $25M

Co-investorsAglae Ventures Amplify Partners Artisanal Ventures First Round Capital

Landing AIlanding.ai in 𝕏Nov 2021

LandingAI builds Agentic Document Extraction, an AI system that converts complex, multi-page documents into structured, auditable data for automation in high-stakes workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsInsight Partners Intel Capital McRock Capital Samsung Catalyst Fund Taiwania Capital

Mindpeakmindpeak.ai inSeries A · Sep 2024 · $15.3M

Mindpeak develops AI-powered diagnostic software for cancer pathology, translating complex tissue data into clinical insights to support treatment decisions.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical Devices

Felix Faber(Founder)in

Co-investorsNina Capital European Innovation Council Fund ZEISS Ventures

Olakaiolakai.ai in 𝕏

Olakai provides a platform for AI governance and ROI measurement that unifies insights from coding AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents across enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Xavier Casanova in

Podcastlepodcastle.ai inOct 2021 · $7M

Podcastle (Async) is an AI video and audio editing platform that lets users create, edit, and repurpose videos through chat-based prompts, including generating video, cleaning up audio, creating voiceovers, adding subtitles, dubbing, and turning long content into short-form social clips.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Arto Yeritsyan(Founder)in

Co-investorsRTP Global Sierra Ventures Mosaic Ventures Point Nine SmartGateVC

Profitmindprofitmind.com inSeed · Feb 2026 · $9M

Profitmind offers an agentic AI platform for the retail and CPG industry that provides quantified, prioritized recommendations for pricing, inventory, and merchandise decisions by ingesting a retailer's strategy and historical data.

AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS

Dr. Mark Chrystal(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccenture Ventures Magarac Venture Partners

Rapidfirerapidfire.ai in 𝕏Mar 2024

RapidFire AI provides an open experimentation engine that orchestrates datasets and LLM pipelines for AI practitioners to customize and test AI models with greater speed and efficiency.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US

Arun Kumar(Co-founder)in Jack Norris(Co-founder)inPradyumna Sridhara(Founder)inJohn Schroeder(Director)

Co-investors.406 Ventures

Rypplerypple.ai in

Rypple is an AI coaching tool for managers that draws on a team's meetings, messages, goals, and commitments to surface signals, prompt daily actions, and support tougher conversations.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsBridgescale Partners Extreme Venture Partners

Sinpexsinpex.de inJan 2024 · $4M

Sinpex provides KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) compliance solutions that help organizations verify customer and business identities at scale while maintaining regulatory compliance and reducing risk.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBerlin, DE

Dr. Camillo Werdich(Founder)in

Co-investorsTX Ventures ACE & Company Realyze Ventures

Skyfireskyfire.xyz in 𝕏Apr 2026 · $11M

Skyfire provides financial infrastructure that enables AI agents to transact autonomously—making and receiving payments, managing accounts, and accessing services globally without traditional financial intermediaries.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSector AgnosticSan Francisco, US

Amir Sarhangi(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsArrington Capital Blitzscaling Ventures Coinbase Ventures DCVC (Data Collective)Draper Associates Evolution Equity Partners +8 more

Skyfire AIskyfireai.com in

SkyfireAI develops autonomous drone systems with AI-powered threat detection for first responders and security applications, reducing response times and false alarms in emergency situations.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRobotics

Matt Sloane(Founder)in Don Mathis in

Co-investorsBDev Ventures GENIUS NY Halogen Ventures Management Company Llc New York Angels Mucker Capital

StrongSuitstrongsuit.com in 𝕏

StrongSuit is an AI platform for litigators that covers discovery, legal research, drafting, precedent verification, and oral argument preparation in one system.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS

Justin McCallon(Founder)in

Sunrisesunrise.ai

Sunrise AI designs, deploys, and operates custom AI systems inside client businesses, connecting to their proprietary data and workflows to build an "AI operating layer" starting with a single high-impact workflow.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsKurma Partners

upgrade your browserbestvpn.orgJul 2024

BestVPN.org ranks VPN providers by analyzing user discussions from Reddit and Twitter, using natural language processing and shill-detection to filter out affiliate spam and paid promotions and compute community-based approval ratings.

ConsumerCybersecurityMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsGore Street Investment Goldman Sachs HV Capital Mozilla Ventures Sands Capital Ventures

ValidMindvalidmind.com in 𝕏

ValidMind Agent Authority is a control layer that sits in the call path of AI agents to intercept, evaluate, and rule on whether each business action is permitted before it executes, then records an audit trail.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Jonas Jacobi(Co-founder)in Andres Rodriguez(Co-founder)inMehdi Esmail(Co-founder)in Jan Larsen(Chief Revenue Officer)inKristof Horompoly(Head of AI)in

Co-investorsMS&AD Ventures New York Life Ventures Point72 Ventures Third Prime Angel Invest FJ Labs +2 more

ValidMindvalidmind.ai in 𝕏Mar 2024 · $8.1M

ValidMind provides a platform for testing, documenting, validating, and monitoring AI models, primarily serving financial institutions like banks and insurers seeking to deploy AI safely and maintain regulatory compliance.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Jonas Jacobi in Andres Rodriguez inMehdi Esmailin

Co-investorsAngel Invest FJ Labs Gaingels New York Life Ventures Notion Capital Point72 Ventures +1 more

Whylabswhylabs.ai inAcquired

WhyLabs provided AI observability and monitoring tools for responsible AI adoption, including platforms for data logging, privacy-preserving monitoring, and large language model oversight.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsAllen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator Ascend Venture Capital Defy Partners Madrona Venture Group

Woebotwoebot.io in 𝕏

Woebot Health builds chat-based AI wellness tools to provide mental health support to individuals and organizations.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental Health

Alison Darcy(Founder)in

Co-investorsJAZZ Venture Partners Owl Ventures Leaps by Bayer New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Temasek

Woebot Healthwoebothealth.com in 𝕏

Woebot is a chat-based mental health support app for adolescents that uses conversational AI informed by cognitive behavioral therapy and other evidence-based approaches.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMental Health

Dr. Alison Darcy(Founder)

Co-investorsAurum Venture Partners Giant Leap Khosla Ventures Kicker Ventures New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Owl Ventures +1 more

Workeraworkera.ai inMar 2023 · $23.5M

Workera provides skills assessment and talent intelligence solutions, helping organizations evaluate technical capabilities and workforce readiness in AI and cloud technologies.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR Tech

Kian Katanforoosh(Founder and CEO)in

Co-investorsAIX Ventures In-Q-Tel New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Owl Ventures Sozo Ventures Tech Square Ventures +1 more

Workhelixworkhelix.com in 𝕏Series A · Oct 2024 · $15M

Workhelix provides enterprise leaders with real-time visibility into their AI adoption, quantifying time saved, mapping AI opportunities, and linking usage to business outcomes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US

Erik Brynjolfsson(Director)in Andrew McAfee(Director)inDaniel Rock(Director)in Shaun Johnson(Director)inJames Milin(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsAIX Ventures Accenture Ventures Benhamou Global Ventures Bloomberg Beta

WPXIwpxi.com 𝕏

WPXI is a local news outlet covering the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, publishing coverage of regional events and community stories.

Media & EntertainmentPittsburgh, US

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has AI Fund made?: AI Fund has 62 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 13 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does AI Fund invest at?: AI Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What is AI Fund's typical check size?: AI Fund typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.
What sectors does AI Fund focus on?: AI Fund focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Media & Entertainment, Retail Tech, SaaS.
Where is AI Fund located?: AI Fund is headquartered in Mountain View, US.
Does AI Fund lead rounds?: Yes, AI Fund leads investment rounds.
Who does AI Fund co-invest with?: AI Fund most often shares deals with Magnify Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Battery Ventures, among 55 tracked co-investors.

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No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund

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The Near Future of AI [Entire Talk] - Andrew Ng (AI Fund)

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Human Relationships with Tech and AI - Andrew Ng (AI Fund)

Stanford eCorner · Andrew Ng

Skills for Students with AI Goals - Andrew Ng (AI Fund)

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Co-investors · 50

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.

Both backed · 5

BNTO Kira Woebot Woebot Health Workera

$200K – $40M

Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with over $2 billion in assets under management that invests in education technology companies serving PreK-12, higher education, career mobility, and professional learning sectors. The firm also invests in companies at the intersection of education technology and other industries.

Both backed · 3

Woebot Woebot Health Workera

$5M – $50M

Insight Partners

Insight Partners is an investment firm focused on accelerating revenue and profit growth in software companies, providing capital and operational support through its Insight Onsite team.

Both backed · 2

Crewai Landing AI

$120M – $350M

Sierra Ventures

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in first-principles founders, backing companies from inception through Series A across AI infrastructure, applied/vertical AI, deep tech, and physical/embodied AI.

Both backed · 2

10Web Podcastle

$10M

AIX Ventures

AIX Ventures is an AI-focused venture fund that backs founders building companies in artificial intelligence.

Both backed · 2

Workera Workhelix

$1M – $5M

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla.

Both backed · 1

Woebot Health

$5K – $50M

Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building companies from inception. Its partners make only one or two new investments per year to focus deeply on each partnership.

Both backed · 1

Baseten

$100K – $200M

First Round Capital

First Round Capital is an early-stage venture firm that backs companies at their earliest moments, often before they are named, across enterprise, AI, consumer, healthcare, fintech and hardware sectors.

Both backed · 1

Lamini

$1M – $7M

DCVC (Data Collective)

DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep tech venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve large-scale real-world problems across many industries.

Both backed · 1

Skyfire

$5M – $25M

Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-founded venture firm that partners with founders across early and acceleration stages, providing capital plus hands-on support in recruiting, strategy, business development, and fundraising.

Both backed · 1

Whylabs

$2M – $10M

Caffeinated Capital

Caffeinated Capital is a venture firm based in San Francisco and New York that leads seed and Series A rounds and continues investing throughout the life of technology companies.

Both backed · 1

Baseten

$3M – $50M

Amplify Partners

Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm that backs technical founders — engineers, researchers, and scientists — building companies across AI/ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, and life sciences.

Both backed · 1

Lamini

$500K – $5M

▶38 more co-investors

Point Nine Mosaic Ventures Conviction RTP Global Defy Partners JAZZ Venture Partners SuperSeed Luminar Ventures Sequoia Capital Uncork Capital Menlo Ventures CRV (Charles River Ventures)Canaan Partners Partech Ventures SciFi VC Obvious Ventures Practical Venture Capital Ridge Ventures Homebrew TSVC AngelPad Eclipse Ventures Betaworks Ventures Management, Llc Causal Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)August Capital Passion Capital Transmedia Capital Walden International A.Capital Ventures Yes VC Morado Venture Partners Origin Ventures CSC Venture Capital Lifeline Ventures Colle Capital Partners Alpana Ventures X Machina Capital

Firms observed investing alongside AI Fund, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with AI Fund's recorded portfolio.

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