SV Angel — 2023 Investments

An ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling people and computers to work together creatively

Enterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

DLDavid Luan(Founder)inAshish Vaswani(Founder)NPNiki Parmar(Founder)Augustus Odena(Co-founder)Maxwell Nye(Co-founder)inErich Elsen(Co-founder)

Co-investorsA.A.Capital VenturesADAdditionAIAir Street CapitalATAtlassian VenturesGEGeneral CatalystGRGreylock Partners+10 more

Black Ore builds intelligent infrastructure for tax and financial services, automating execution and scaling personalized advice for firms, businesses, and individuals.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

ESEyal Shinar(Founder)in

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzAUAudaciousGEGeneral CatalystHAHAWKTAILLILionBirdOAOak HC/FT+7 more

Braintrust provides AI observability and evaluation platform that monitors production AI systems to surface patterns, define quality standards, and automate improvements.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

AGAnkur Goyal(Founder)inEHEden Halperin(Head of Product)in

BoardMJMatthew Jacobson(Board Member; General Partner, ICONIQ Growth)inSMSaam Motamedi(Board Partner / Investor Director, Greylock)in

Co-investorsALAlt CapitalANAndreessen HorowitzDADatabricks VenturesELElad GilGRGreylock PartnersICICONIQ+5 more

Braintrust provides an observability and evaluation platform for teams building AI agents, letting them inspect production traces and tool calls, run evals against datasets, and surface behavior patterns to improve quality.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsBOBoxGroupGRGreylock Partners

Bellevue, WA social network where users create AI personas that autonomously post and interact with humans and other AIs.

Vu Tran(Founder)

Co-investorsCOCoatue Management

C1 provides an AI-native identity security platform for enterprises to manage and secure human, non-human, and AI identities at scale.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Alexander Bovee(Executive Officer, Director)PQPaul Querna(Founder)inAlex Bovee(Founder)

BoardMVMarcie Vu(Director)inPLPing Li(Director)in

Co-investorsACAccelALAlumni VenturesFEFelicis VenturesGAGaruda VenturesGLGlynn Capital ManagementGRGreycroft+9 more

Captions is an AI video editor that automatically transforms raw footage into fully edited videos with cuts, overlays, captions, and music.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US

GMGaurav Misra(Founder)inDCDwight Churchill(Founder)inGaurav Misra Dwight Churchill(Founder)

Co-investorsCHChapter OneSESequoia CapitalANAndreessen HorowitzCHChapter One VenturesINIndex VenturesKLKleiner Perkins

Consumer generative-AI platform where users create and chat with customizable AI characters via web and mobile apps.

Menlo Park, US

KAKarandeep Anand(Founder)inDaniel De Freitas(Founder)inNoam Shazeer(Founder)in

Co-investorsA.A.Capital VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzCOConnect VenturesELElad GilGRGreycroftLILightspeed Venture Partners

Coactive develops machine learning and AI systems, with a focus on data-centric AI and content intelligence for the media and advertising industries.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMedia & Entertainment

CCCody Coleman(Founder)inWGWill Gaviria Rojas(Co-Founder and Field CTO)inWilliam Gaviria Rojas(Founder)

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzBEBessemer Venture PartnersCHCherryrock CapitalEXExceptional CapitalGRGreycroftLILittlejohn+4 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

MSMati Staniszewski(Founder)inPDPiotr Dabkowski(Co-founder)inHannah C(Founder)MJMateusz Jakub Staniszewski(Co-founder)inMati Staniszewski Piotr Dabkowski(Founder)Piotr Dąbkowski(Founder)

Co-investorsAIAir Street CapitalALAlkeon InnovationANAndreessen HorowitzANAntiASAspire11BOBond Capital Management+45 more

Evidence is a browser-based IDE for building interactive data dashboards and reports using SQL and markdown, with AI-powered development tools and support for multiple database backends.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareToronto, CA

AMAdam McAskill(Founder)inSHSean Hughes(Founder)inUdesh Senaratne(Engineer)Archie Wood(Head of Community)Brian Donald(Engineer)Charles Hardy(Engineer)

Co-investorsA.A.Capital VenturesY Y CombinatorASASDF VenturesFOForesite CapitalNENextView VenturesNVNVP Capital

Mailgun provides an API platform that enables businesses to send, receive, and track transactional and marketing email messages.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

EKEv Kontsevoy(CEO)inTWTaylor Wakefield(Founder)inAKAlexander Klizhentas(Founding Engineer)

Co-investorsSCScaleworksSPSpider CapitalY Y CombinatorDSDST GlobalENEniac VenturesFEFelicis Ventures+6 more

Maza provides financial services for immigrants in the US, helping them access the US financial system along with tax filing and ITIN services.

ConsumerFintechSaaS

Luciano Arango(Co-founder & CEO)Robbie Figueroa(Co-founder & COO)Siggy Bilstein(Co-founder & CTO)

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesFIFinancial Venture StudioKUKube VCRERestive VenturesTITitanium VenturesANAndreessen Horowitz+4 more

Method builds financial connectivity infrastructure that enables software companies and financial services firms to embed banking, payments, and account data capabilities into their platforms.

Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSNew York City, US

JBJose Bethancourt(Founder)inJMJesus Marco del Carmen(Founder)inMSMit Shah(COO)inMDMarco del Carmen(Founder)inNBNeil Batlivala(Early Software Engineer)inAgustin Cygiel(Head of Growth)

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesALAlumni VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzARArdent VentureAVavraCACameron Ventures+10 more

Orb provides billing and revenue infrastructure for software companies, enabling usage-based and hybrid pricing models.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

AMAlvaro Morales(Founder)inKGKshitij Grover(Founder)inJBJosh Buckler(Head of Sales)inBas de Goei(Head of Marketing)inJCJustin Chuan(Head of Design)in

BoardSMSaam Motamedi(Board Member / Investor Representative (Partner, Greylock))in

Co-investorsANAngel Collective Opportunity FundDAData Community FundESESSENCE VCFOFOG VenturesGRGreylock PartnersMAMayfield Fund+9 more

Pika provides AI-powered creative tools for making videos and images.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentPalo Alto, US

DGDemi G.(Founder)inChenlin Meng(Founder)Demi Guo(Founder)

Co-investorsBEBeyond CapitalGRGreycroftHOHomebrewLILightspeed Venture PartnersSASarah SmithANAndreessen Horowitz+3 more

Reask develops climate risk models for insurers and reinsurers to forecast, price, and manage extreme weather exposure.

Climate TechData & InfrastructureInsurTechLondon, GB

Co-investorsCOCollaborative FundHAHAWKTAILMAMastryMOMosaic General Partnership, LLCBRBreakthrough Energy VenturesCOComcast Ventures+4 more

Replicate builds tools that make AI models accessible to software engineers through simple APIs and abstractions, similar to standard software libraries.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

BFBen Firshman(Founder)inAJAndreas Jansson(Founder)inAbby T. Miller(ops)Jill Wohlner(Recruiter)John LaMarche(recruiter)Auni Nair(Ops)

Co-investorsAIAIX VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzAVavraHEHeavybitSESequoia CapitalY Y Combinator+5 more

Resend provides an email sending platform for developers to build and send modern email templates that reach the inbox reliably.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

ZRZeno Rocha(CEO)inBKBu Kinoshita(Founder)in

BoardGRGuillermo Rauch

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzRORogue CapitalY Y CombinatorASASDF VenturesBABase Case CapitalCRCRV (Charles River Ventures)+5 more

SendGrid provides email delivery and marketing infrastructure via APIs and SMTP services for developers and marketers to send emails at scale.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSDenver, US

Isaac Saldana(Founder)inJLJose Lopez(Founder)inTJTim Jenkins(Founder)Yancey Spruill(Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer)Michael Tognetti(Executive Officer)James H. Franklin(Chief Executive Officer)

Co-investors50500 GlobalBABain Capital VenturesBEBessemer Venture PartnersDEDecibel PartnersGRGraph VenturesK2K2 Global+6 more

Sesame builds personal voice AI agents capable of natural conversation, along with hardware devices designed to make them more effective.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeep TechHardwareSan Francisco, US

BIBrendan Iribe(Founder)inAnkit Kumar(Founder)inRyan Brown(Founder)inNMNate MitchellinAngela Gaylesin

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzMAMatrixSESequoia Capital7P7percent VenturesA*A*ABAbstract Ventures+23 more

Together AI builds a full-stack platform for production AI systems, serving teams that need to deploy and scale machine learning models reliably.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

VVVipul Ved Prakash(Founder)inCZCe Zhang(Founder)inCRChris Ré(Founder)TDTri Dao(Founder)inPLPercy Liang(Founder)inVipul Prakash(Founder)

Co-investors13137 VenturesA.A.Capital VenturesALAlumni VenturesBRBrave CapitalBRBrilliant Phoenix CapitalCACambium Capital+40 more