YAR Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSunnyvale · Pre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
Yar Ventures believes the AI era is already underway and invests in AI and DeepTech founders building core infrastructure, applied intelligence, and defensible technologies at the foundation layer. The firm targets strong teams solving hard technical problems and provides not only capital but also deep expertise, active network access, and hands-on guidance. The platform addresses a market of over 1 million tech professionals and founders across North America and Europe lacking structured access to top-tier venture opportunities.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 21, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's websiteRepeat entrepreneur and investor with over 15 years of experience who previously scaled a telecommunications company to $90M+ in revenue and co-founded a $5M tech accelerator fund backing 31 startups with multiple exits. He has held senior investment roles at Plug and Play and Amidi Group and is the co-founder of the Persian Tech Network.
Senior Research Fellow at UC Berkeley with academic roles at Stanford University and Sharif University of Technology and deep expertise in AI-based cognitive learning. An Erdős International Award recipient who has co-founded seven technology startups, including Polyup, an interactive learning platform. Recently collaborated with Google's Gemini team on training large language models for mathematical reasoning.
What they invest in
from 1 of 12 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×1HR Tech ×1SaaS ×1
Investments · 12 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAn AI-powered workspace for citation-backed research, managing references, conducting literature reviews, annotating PDFs, and writing papers.
A biotechnology company leveraging advanced data and computational tools to accelerate biological research.
An AI-powered video platform creating unlimited video content with AI twins and fully synthetic avatars at scale.
Allows companies to create highly realistic digital twins—interactive AI personas of real people that look, sound, and think like them—to scale personalized customer interactions, training, and content creation.
An AI platform focused on accelerating EV charging deployment by simplifying the engineering process.
A workforce management platform helping companies manage HR operations and employee engagement more efficiently.
An AI security and trust platform securing live voice and video calls with real-time context analysis, deepfake detection, and social engineering response automation.
A research-driven company developing the first commercial soft manipulator and AI foundation models for safe and intuitive robotics.
Stride is a compensation management platform that helps organizations plan, manage, and execute pay decisions while identifying and reducing pay gaps. It integrates with HRIS systems and provides HR leaders, managers, and financial analysts with data-driven insights, budgeting tools, and automation to streamline compensation workflows and support equitable pay practices.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does YAR Ventures invest at?
- YAR Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does YAR Ventures focus on?
- YAR Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech.
- Where is YAR Ventures located?
- YAR Ventures is headquartered in Sunnyvale, US.
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