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Investment thesis
Inception Fund positions itself as a credible AI-focused super angel, writing early checks to back the top 0.1% of European and New Nordic technical founders creating global, business-facing AI application, infrastructure, foundation model and deeptech companies. It emphasizes moving fast, keeping terms simple, taking no board seats and not needing to lead rounds, while supporting founders from zero to one. It is well networked across Europe and the US and offers access to top-tier VC funds and leading AI labs. An opportunity fund lets it write larger tickets at seed and beyond as a value-add follower alongside top-tier funds.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 35 of 46 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×32Enterprise Software ×14Deep Tech ×13SaaS ×12Developer Tools ×9LegalTech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4
HQs:Sweden×7United States×6United Kingdom×5Finland×2Czechia×1France×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 28 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×103 founders×54+ founders×4
Where their founders studiedfrom 61 founders with education data
KTH Royal Institute of Technology ×13Aalto University ×6Stockholm School of Economics ×5Chalmers University of Technology ×4Lund University ×3National University of Singapore ×3University of California, Berkeley ×3University of Cambridge ×3
What their founders studiedfrom 56 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×26Engineering ×18Physics ×7Business & Management ×4Economics ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×4Humanities ×3Law ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 63 founders with career history
OpenAI ×8Google ×7Meta ×7McKinsey & Company ×6Microsoft ×5Depict ×4Google Deepmind ×3QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey ×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
19 founders hold a PhD (of 61 with degree data)
Investments · 46 tracked
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Abstraction builds a code comprehension layer that compiles source code into a universal semantic model to generate auto-validated wikis, process graphs, system maps, and semantic PR reviews.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investors2048 Ventures25MadisonAlumni VenturesAntlerBankless VenturesCosmostation+11 more
Ace Waves provides AI-powered customer support agents that automate up to 80% of support operations, operating 24/7 with human-like intelligence across multiple channels while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance standards.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Antanas Baksys(Founder)in
Co-investorsDig Ventures Management LimitedFirstpickFJ LabsMarketplace
AMI Labs develops advanced AI systems that understand the real world through world models and action-conditioned architectures, enabling intelligent agents with persistent memory, reasoning, and safety controls for industrial automation, robotics, and healthcare applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsParis, FR
Yann LeCun(Founder)Alex LeBrun(Founder)inLaurent Solly(Founder)inMichael Rabbat(Founder)inPascale Fung(Founder)inSaining Xie(Founder)in
Co-investors20VCAglae VenturesAlpha Intelligence CapitalAlpha Square GroupAvenir Growth CapitalBerliner Volksbank Ventures+45 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 Capital7GC & CoA.Capital VenturesAccelAlanda Capital Holding Limited+129 more
An AI company associated with scientist Tomáš Mikolov, whose research contributions include algorithms for scaling neural network language models and neural text generation methods used in chatbots.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechPrague, CZ
Jaroslav Beck(Founder)inTomáš Mikolov(Co-Founder & CSO)in
Co-investors20VCFELIX CAPITALRockaway VenturesTola Capital
Callosum is building heterogeneous AI intelligence, working across the full stack from silicon to algorithms to systems.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSemiconductorsLondon, GB
Danyal Akarca(CEO)inJascha Achterberg(CTO)in
Co-investorsPluralAlbionVCAtomicoDCVC (Data Collective)Entrepreneur FirstSamos Investments+3 more
CuspAI develops AI models for materials science and discovery, and leads the AI Materials Foundry initiative that combines accelerated computing infrastructure with chemistry data and materials expertise.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew MaterialsCambridge, GB
Max Welling(Co-Founder)inChad Edwards(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesHoxton VenturesKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Northzone+19 more
Cybret builds a security engine that detects complex business logic vulnerabilities in software, focusing on unintended interactions across API endpoints, permissions, states, and data paths that conventional tools and LLM-based scanners miss.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsSkyfall VenturesWave Ventures
Everi builds software for orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) clinics to reduce administrative burden and documentation work, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsnode.vc
Hedda is an AI system for analyzing RFPs and complex project documentation, helping teams qualify opportunities, extract requirements, and draft responses by connecting to existing enterprise systems like SharePoint and Microsoft 365.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Zakarias Hedenfalk(Founder)inFabian Platoff(Founder)inFredrik Juvet(Founder)in
Co-investorsWave VenturesAntlerZenith Venture Capital
ICEYE operates a satellite-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system that delivers persistent, real-time monitoring and damage assessment data globally.
Climate TechDeep TechDefense TechSpace TechFinland, FI
Rafal Modrzewski(CEO and Co-Founder)inPekka Laurilain
Co-investorsDnx VenturesDraper AssociatesFOUNDER.orgGen CapitalGeneral CatalystIn-Q-Tel+10 more
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Inference Capital is an investment firm representing permanent capital and allocators across private markets, providing advisory and direct allocation services.
Fintech
Co-investorsPreston-Werner Ventures
IQM builds full-stack superconducting quantum computers, from NISQ-era to fault-tolerant systems, including quantum processing units, on-premise machines, and a cloud platform.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingEspoo, FI
Co-investors55 NorthBayern KapitalChanger ClubFirst MomentumKreos CapitalOpenOcean+9 more
Last Accounting Company (LAC) offers a combined accounting service and AI platform, using its agent "Björn" to automate manual bookkeeping while human accountants review the results, replacing tools like Procountor, Fennoa, and Netvisor.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Riki Karjalainen(Co-Founder)inSami Laakkonen(Founder)inVeikko Pere(Founder)inPietari Virkkunen(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorVela PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)Founders FactorySandwith Ventures, LLC
Legora builds AI-powered collaboration software for lawyers to automate routine tasks and improve efficiency in legal work.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechStockholm, SE
Max Junestrand(Co-founder & CEO)inSigge Labor(Founder)inAugust Erséus(Co-founder)in
BoardChetan Puttagunta(Director)Jacob Effron(Redpoint board member)inLogan Bartlett(Redpoint board member)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAccelAirTree VenturesAlkeon InnovationAtlassian VenturesBain Capital Ventures+37 more
Lightbringer is a SOC 2 Type 2 compliant service provider that describes its data security and privacy practices, including encryption, access controls, and monitoring for customer data.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityLegalTechSaaS
Dominic DaviesinMarkus AndreassoninOla Wassvikin
Co-investorsAlliance VCAlliance VentureLuminar VenturesNewion6 Degrees Capital
Lovable is an AI-powered platform that enables users to build web applications and websites through conversational chat interactions with artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSDover, US
Fabian Hedin(Executive Officer, Director)inAnton Osika(Executive Officer, Director)inAndy Toung(Executive Officer)
BoardBenjamin Fletcher(Director)Matt Murphy(Director)in
Co-investors20VC83NorthAccelAIX VenturesAnthropy PartnersAntler+40 more
Moritz is an AI-native law firm that combines senior lawyers with custom software to deliver legal work for technology companies across the EU, US, and Australia, using fixed fees and rapid turnaround rather than hourly billing.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Pamir Ehsas(Founder & CEO)inStefan Mandaric(Founder)inDaniel Dalla Vedova(Founding Head of Legal & COO)in
Co-investorsY Combinator20VCPioneerTranspose Platform ManagementUrban InnovationFounder Capital+13 more
PhysicsX offers an AI and simulation software platform that combines physics inference with numerical simulation to help engineering and manufacturing enterprises design, optimize, and control products across the product lifecycle.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechLondon, GB
Robin Tuluie(Co-Founder)inJacomo Corbo(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)in
Co-investorsAtomicoGeneral CatalystTemasekFelicis VenturesIntrepid Growth PartnersRadius Capital Ventures+4 more
Prior Labs builds pre-trained tabular foundation models (TabPFN) that make predictions on structured data without tuning or ML pipelines, delivered via API, private cloud, or agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Frank Hutter(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtlanticBalderton CapitalGalion.exeXTX Markets
Recursive develops self-improving superintelligence systems designed to automate knowledge discovery.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechLondon, GB
Caiming Xiong(Founder)inYuandong Tian(Founder)inTim Rocktäschel(Founder)in
Co-investorsAIX VenturesAlumni VenturesARA NEA Ventures (Brand: Dmz.Xyz)Conexo VenturesDCVC (Data Collective)Glasswing Ventures+10 more
Scape is a desktop email client that organizes inboxes for Gmail and Outlook users, using AI to prioritize important messages, draft replies, and track follow-ups from emails and meetings.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSStockholm, SE
Melvin Hagberg(Founder and CEO)in
Co-investorsPioneerWave VenturesY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzAngelHubCapitalize VC+7 more
Scorable provides calibrated AI judges that evaluate AI responses in real time, detecting hallucinations, policy violations, and quality regressions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsAngular Ventures
AI company co-founded and led by CEO Peter Sarlin, featured in Antler's podcast.
Specific builds infrastructure software for AI coding agents, enabling them to run, deploy, and maintain the code they generate with tools designed for AI-native workflows rather than human developers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareStockholm, SE
Fabian Lindfors(Founder)inIman Radjavi(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator20VCAmino CapitalFounders FactoryHassan Lantry (Blast)James Beshara Fund
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StackOne provides infrastructure for AI agents to integrate with and act across business applications through optimized connectivity, execution, and security features.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNewbury, GB
Romain Sestier(Founder)in
Co-investorsEpisode1GV (Google Ventures)Preston-Werner VenturesThunder Future LLCPlayfair CapitalWorkday Ventures
Stilta builds software for patent protection and intellectual property work, serving patent attorneys and innovators who depend on patent safeguards.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechStockholm, SE
Oskar Block(Founder)inOscar Adamsson(Founder)inTobias Estreen(Founder)inPetrus Werner(Co-founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzHassan Lantry (Blast)Phosphor Capital
Tandem Health builds regulated clinical AI for clinicians and health systems, including an AI scribe that generates clinical documents and diagnosis/procedure codes (ICD-10, SNOMED), a coding assistant, and clinical decision support certified as EU MDR Class IIa medical devices.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Lukas Saari(Founder)in
Co-investorsGROOVE CAPITALIdeashipKinnevikNorthzoneAmino CollectiveEQT+1 more
Terra Labs builds AI that turns satellite and Earth observation data into monitoring and decision-making intelligence, starting with forestry.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechDeep Tech
Co-investorsNorrsken VC
The Token Company builds a compression model called Bear-2 that reduces the size of LLM inputs such as documents, websites, and transcripts before they enter an LLM context window.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Otso Veisterä(Founder)in
Co-investorsFailup VenturesPioneerTranspose Platform ManagementWave VenturesY CombinatorVisionaries Club
Touchmark operates a live order book for reserved AI inference capacity, letting buyers commit forward to blocks of tokens on named models at posted discounted prices while providers sell capacity ahead to lock in revenue against GPU buildouts.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Ilia Bolgov(Co-Founder)inRoman Yanushevskyi(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsVela PartnersY CombinatorHassan Lantry (Blast)Kima VenturesLiquid VenturesSpot VC
Tzafon develops machine intelligence systems focused on multimodality, high-performance compute, and continuous learning.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Noah T.(Founder)in
Co-investorsStreamlined VenturesHannah Grey VenturesKakao VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementWave VenturesZone 2 Ventures Llc+2 more
Validio provides an agentic data management platform that automates data observability, quality, lineage, and cataloging for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareStockholm, SE
Patrik Liu Tran(CEO & Founder)inAdrian Strömberg(Head of Finance)inSophia Granfors(Head of Marketing)inChristopher Alfred Brown(Head of Product & Engineering)
Co-investorsJ12 VenturesLakestarAlleyCorpPlural
Vantel provides AI-powered tools to insurance brokers for analyzing policies, comparing quotes, and identifying coverage gaps across their client portfolios.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSaaSStockholm, SE
Love Redin(Founder)inUlme Wennberg(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorRebel Fund
Vesence is a platform that enables teams to delegate complex work in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) to AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSStockholm, SE
Henrik Hansson(Founder)inLudvig Swanstrom(Founder)in
Co-investors20VCEmergence Capital PartnersY CombinatorCreandumMetsu CapitalTwenty Two Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ABC LabsAgatonDentioEthiraKeska LabsNativelySapheniaSMIDE LabsUserjourneysZero
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Legora · runtimewire.com · Sep 22, 2026
Tandem Health · techfundingnews.com · Sep 14, 2026
Callosum · thenextweb.com · Aug 20, 2026
Lovable · eu-startups.com · Aug 12, 2026
Anthropic · Anthropic Newsroom · Aug 4, 2026
Prior Labs · eu-startups.com · Jul 17, 2026
Touchmark · extruct.ai · Jun 20, 2026
Lightbringer · techfundingnews.com · Jun 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Inception Fund made?
- Inception Fund has 46 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Inception Fund invest at?
- Inception Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Inception Fund's typical check size?
- Inception Fund typically writes checks of $110K – $1.1M.
- What sectors does Inception Fund focus on?
- Inception Fund focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Quantum Computing.
- Does Inception Fund lead rounds?
- Inception Fund typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Inception Fund co-invest with?
- Inception Fund most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Wave Ventures, 20VC, among 182 tracked co-investors.
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