About
Warren Packard is an advisor at AI Fund who focuses on helping build early-stage startups. He founded Angara Database Systems in the mid-1990s (acquired by Personify) and co-founded Thuuz Sports in 2010 (acquired by Stats Perform in 2020), and spent 13 years as a managing director at DFJ, where he led more than two dozen investments. He holds an MBA and master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering, all from Stanford University, and holds 18 patents, several related to AI generative video.
Invests in
AI & Machine Learning
Experience
- Recursive Robotics IncChief Executive Officercurrent2026 — present
- Mojave Energy Systems, Inc.Executive Board Membercurrent2022 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- AI FundVenture Partner2025 — 2026Palo Alto, CA
- AI FundPartner2022 — 2025Palo Alto, California, United States
- AI FundVenture Partner2022Palo Alto, California, United States
- Thuuz SportsCo-founder and CEO2010 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- Draper Fisher JurvetsonManaging Director1997 — 2010Palo Alto, California, United States
- U.S. Naval Research LaboratoryExecutive Committee Member - Naval Research Advisory Committee2005 — 2006Washington DC-Baltimore Area
- Angara Database SystemsCo-founder and Head of Business Development1996 — 1997
- IVPVenture Capital Associate1996 — 1997Menlo Park, California, United States
- Baxter InternationalSenior Principal Engineer1991 — 1995
- Stanford UniversityResearch Assistant - Center for Design Research1989 — 1991Stanford, California, United States
- HughesSystems Engineer1987 — 1988El Segundo, California, United States
Education
- Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA1995 — 1997
- Stanford UniversityMS, Mechanical Engineering1989 — 1991
- Stanford UniversityBS, Mechanical Engineering1985 — 1989
Skills & more
Business Formation2Executive Leadership2New Business DevelopmentCorporate FinanceStart-ups80Venture Capital89Entrepreneurship99Consumer Internet13MobileEntrepreneur1Sports Entertainment2Corporate Development20
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Mobile DevicesProduct ManagementMergers & AcquisitionsValuationStrategic PartnershipsDue DiligenceBusiness StrategyAngel InvestingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Strategy- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Sequence Models — Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
- Machine Learning — Coursera
From Warren's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,187
Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew
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Also attended Stanford University1,726
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at AI Fund35
Anthony SoohooVenture Partner at Copper Sky CapitalPhoebe FanDirector of Operations at Foothill VenturesBill MacCartneyFormer VP ML at Cohere at SignalFirePhoebe WangPartner at WI Harper GroupJason RischPartner at Greylock PartnersCaroline DuffyPartner at Cowboy Ventures
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Also worked at Thuuz Sports2
Also worked at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory6
Also worked at Baxter International35
Brian CheeManaging Partner at Polaris PartnersNick RoelofsVenture Partner at ScietyBengt JulanderSenior Advisor at ScietyRamanathan VStartup Ecosystem Builder at SeafundJulie KimRepresentative Director – President and CEO at Takeda VenturesKavita BjörkdahlInvestor at Almi Invest
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Investments
Investor
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Per the firm's website.
Colleagues at AI Fund
Andrew Ng
Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Andy Ku
Partner at AI Fund
Anthony Soohoo
Venture Partner at Copper Sky Capital
Bill MacCartney
AI Fund Fellow at AI Fund
Brendan Marx
Engineer at AI Fund
Carlos Alzate
CTO at AI Fund
Dan Landau
Sr. Marketing Manager at AI Fund
Daniel Macklin
Venture Advisor at AI Fund