Factorial Funds
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Series B–Late Stage · 16 people tracked
Also known as Factorial Funds Athena · Factorial Funds LLC KS
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 Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 14 of 19 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14Deep Tech ×6Enterprise Software ×5Developer Tools ×3Cloud Computing ×2Creator Economy ×2Fintech ×2Hardware ×2
HQs:United States×4France×1United Kingdom×1
Investments · 19 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12023 · 12 dated
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSan Francisco, US
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 & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Neha Narkhede(Founder)
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 SoftwareSaaS
Mati Staniszewski(Founder & CEO)
Fundamental Research Labs builds autonomous, socially intelligent AI agents capable of reasoning and multi-agent collaboration.
AI & Machine Learning
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)
BoardDavid Beyer(Director)
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 Software
Arthur Mensch(Co-founder and CEO)Guillaume Lample(Co-founder and Chief Science Officer)Timothee Lacroix(Co-founder and CTO)
Physical Intelligence develops general-purpose AI models that enable robots to perform a wide range of manipulation and mobility tasks through foundation models trained on multi-robot, multi-task data.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
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 Learning
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAnthropic AI Safety and Research · techcrunch.com · Jul 20, 2026
xAI · readsludge.com · Jul 17, 2026
Luma AI · ngram.com · Jul 17, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab · cryptobriefing.com · Jul 16, 2026
Mistral AI · techbuzz.ai · Jul 5, 2026
Fractile · datacenterdynamics.com · Jun 18, 2026
Physical Intelligence (π) · roboticscenter.ai · Apr 1, 2026
Confluent · thesaasnews.com · Oct 24, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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