Factorial Funds
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Series B–Late Stage · 19 people tracked
Also known as Factorial Funds Athena · Factorial Funds LLC KS
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Investment thesis
Factorial Funds pursues a strategy of concentrated technology investments. The team draws on roughly a decade of experience in machine learning and autonomous vehicles, gained during a period when AI architecture was still emerging and computing resources were limited. That environment required resourcefulness and ingenuity, which shaped the firm's appreciation for founders who build in a similarly scrappy, inventive manner.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 19 people
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What they invest in
from 15 of 19 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×15Enterprise Software ×6Deep Tech ×5Developer Tools ×5Creator Economy ×3Hardware ×3Cloud Computing ×2Media & Entertainment ×2
HQs:United States×12United Kingdom×2France×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×23 founders×34+ founders×8
Where their founders studiedfrom 34 founders with education data
Stanford University ×3École Polytechnique ×2Harvard University ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of California, Santa Cruz ×2University of Cambridge ×2University of Oxford ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 36 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×22Engineering ×13Mathematics & Statistics ×5Physics ×5Humanities ×4
Where their founders worked beforefrom 42 founders with career history
Openai ×16DeepMind ×8Stanford University ×4Facebook ×3Tesla ×3Goldman Sachs ×2LinkedIn ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ×2
17 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 38 with degree data)
Investments · 19 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12023 · 32017 · 15 dated
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer)inBret Johnsen(Executive Officer)inGwynne Shotwell(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAntonio Gracias(Director)inSteve Jurvetson(Director)inDonald Harrison(Director)
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures2080 Ventures4DX Ventures7BC Venture CapitalA*+150 more
Anduril builds autonomous systems and software for defense and military applications, including attack aviation, unmanned aircraft, and underwater vehicles, unified by an autonomy platform.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareRobotics
Palmer Luckey(Founder)inBrian Schimpf(CEO)inTrae Stephens(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures1Flourish Capital8VCAltra VentureAndreessen HorowitzAnorak Ventures+84 more
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Co-founder & CEO)inDaniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)inChris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)in
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAccelAlkeon InnovationAllen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator+85 more
Sam Partee(Founder)in
Co-investorsAdverb VenturesCanaan PartnersInspired CapitalTorch CapitalSound Ventures
Ayar Labs develops co-packaged optics (CPO) technology for AI infrastructure, enabling optical connectivity between thousands of GPUs across data center racks.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductorsSan Jose, US
Co-investorsNVIDIAAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundBerkeley FrontierBlue Bear VenturesCastor Ventures+17 more
Confluent provides a cloud-native platform for real-time data streaming and movement, enabling organizations to connect applications and respond to business events as they occur.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Neha Narkhede(Co-founder; former Chief Technology Officer and board member)inJay Kreps(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)inJun Rao(Co-founder)inEdward (Jay) Kreps(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMatthew Miller(Director)Eric Vishria(Director)in
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAltimeter CapitalAxevil CapitalBattery VenturesCoatue ManagementCusp Capital+13 more
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that builds voice generation and audio processing platforms for creating human-like voice interactions with technology.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB
Mati Staniszewski(Founder & CEO)inPiotr Dabkowski(Co-founder)inHannah C(Founder)Mateusz Jakub Staniszewski(Co-founder)in
BoardJennifer Li(Director)in
Co-investorsAir Street CapitalAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzAntiAspire11BroadLight Capital+30 more
Fractile designs processors for AI acceleration, offering the next generation of computing hardware.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductorsBristol, GB
Walter Goodwin(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors01 AdvisorsAccelFelicis VenturesGigascale CapitalInovia CapitalKindred Capital+4 more
Fundamental Research Labs builds autonomous, socially intelligent AI agents capable of reasoning and multi-agent collaboration.
AI & Machine Learning
Nico Christie(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzA16Z SpeedrunCastor VenturesFirst Spark Ventures, LlcPatronVamosVentures+3 more
Luma Labs builds AI agents that generate, understand, and operate in the physical world, enabling creative teams to rapidly produce video, image, audio, and text content with unified general intelligence driving creative workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentPalo Alto, US
Amit Jain(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Sixian Yu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amit Jain at CVPR(Founder)
BoardDavid Beyer(Director)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzCRV (Charles River Ventures)MatrixSouth Park CommonsAMD Ventures+3 more
Mistral builds and open-sources frontier AI models, developer tools, and applications for organizations in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and the public sector to solve complex problems.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareParis, FR
Arthur Mensch(Co-founder & CEO)inGuillaume Lample(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inTimothee Lacroix(Co-founder and CTO)inTimothée Lacroix(Co-founder & CTO)in
Co-investors83NorthAndreessen HorowitzBalderton CapitalCisco InvestmentsConvictionElad Gil+27 more
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An AI-powered answer engine providing accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to questions.
San Francisco, US
Andrew D. Konwinski(Executive Officer, Director)Dzianis Yarats(Director)Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan(Director, Executive Officer)Aravind Srinivas(Co-founder & CEO)inDenis Yarats(Co-founder & CTO)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
Co-investors359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX VenturesArrington Capital+49 more
Physical Intelligence develops generalist AI models for robotics that can control any robot to perform various tasks through learning algorithms and multi-robot training.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Sergey Levine(Founder)Adnan Esmail(Founder)inBrian Ichter(Founder)inKarol Hausman(Founder)inLachy Groom(Founder)inQuan Vuong(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapitalGKhosla VenturesLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesSequoia CapitalThrive Capital+26 more
Sardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Francisco, US
Soups Ranjan(Founder & CEO)inAdi G(Founder)Zahid Shaikh(Founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCannage CapitalCoinbase VenturesCross Creek Advisors+14 more
A later venture from the Cruise founding team that Spark partnered on again.
Kyle Vogt(Founder)inParil Jain(Founder)in
Co-investorsDaft CapitalFifty YearsMaven VenturesMVP VenturesSpark CapitalSV Angel+3 more
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company building systems for human-AI collaboration with emphasis on customization, safety, and accessibility.
AI & Machine LearningSan Francisco, US
Mira Murati(Co-founder)inBarret Zoph(Co-founder)inLilian Weng(Co-founder)inAndrew Tulloch(Co-founder)inLuke Metz(Co-founder)inPhuong Nga Nguyen(Founder)
Co-investorsAccelAndreessen HorowitzBison VenturesGV (Google Ventures)Juniper Ventures Management, LlcOwl Ventures+4 more
Udio is an AI music creation tool that generates songs from text descriptions and offers AI audio-editing features for uploaded audio.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US
Andrew V. Sanchez(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitz
x.ai builds frontier AI reasoning models, real-time voice AI, and generative media systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu(Founder)inGreg Yang(Founder)inGuodong Zhang(Founder)inIgor Babuschkin(Founder)inElon Musk(Founder)in
Co-investors7percent VenturesAbstract VenturesAccess Ventures (New York)Aglae VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+36 more
Exits · 3
1 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 2Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Manus · techcrunch.com · Sep 18, 2026
Space X · techcrunch.com · Sep 16, 2026
Anthropic · techcrunch.com · Sep 15, 2026
Mistral AI · mistral.ai · Sep 8, 2026
Eleven Labs · bebee.com · Sep 5, 2026
Fractile · cryptopolitan.com · Aug 20, 2026
Perplexity · cryptonews.com · Aug 20, 2026
Anduril · bloomberg.com · Aug 10, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Factorial Funds made?
- Factorial Funds has 19 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Factorial Funds invest at?
- Factorial Funds invests at the Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Factorial Funds focus on?
- Factorial Funds focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, SaaS.
- Where is Factorial Funds located?
- Factorial Funds is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Factorial Funds co-invest with?
- Factorial Funds most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Index Ventures, among 201 tracked co-investors.
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