Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in United States in May 2026
Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in United States in May 2026
| Investor | Machine Learning United States investments |
|---|---|
| Kevin Mahaffey | 14 |
| Scott Belsky | 13 |
| Scott Banister | 11 |
| Elad Gil | 10 |
| Paul Buchheit | 10 |
| Farzad Nazem | 10 |
| Gokul Rajaram | 10 |
| Daniel Gross | 10 |
| Lachy Groom | 10 |
| Naval Ravikant | 9 |
| Georges Harik | 9 |
| Anthony Goldbloom | 9 |
| Wei Guo | 9 |
| Kevin Moore | 8 |
| Nat Friedman | 8 |
| Nat Friedman | 8 |
| Ram Shriram | 8 |
| Greg Brockman | 8 |
| Jason Calacanis | 8 |
| Nat Friedman | 8 |
| Adam D’Angelo | 7 |
| Max Levchin | 7 |
| Jerry Yang | 7 |
| Jerry Yang | 7 |
| Lee Linden | 7 |
| Peter Thiel | 7 |
| Dylan Field | 7 |
| Frederic Kerrest | 7 |
| Wayne Chang | 6 |
| Alessandro Piol | 6 |
| Konstantin von Unger | 6 |
| Jackson Moses | 6 |
| Jeff Seibert | 6 |
| Ronald Conway | 6 |
| Auren Hoffman | 6 |
| Tom Chavez | 6 |
| Guillermo Rauch | 6 |
| Ross Mason | 6 |
| Steve Chen | 6 |
| Charlie Cheever | 6 |
| Sahin Boydas | 6 |
| Jeff Dean | 6 |
| Peter Livingston | 5 |
| Kyle Vogt | 5 |
| Oleg Rogynskyy | 5 |
| Howard Morgan | 5 |
| Vivek Garipalli | 5 |
| Eric Kwan | 5 |
| Ihar Mahaniok | 5 |
| Walter Winshall | 5 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
- Chameleon — Chameleon offers software application with the features including microsurveys, launchers, tooltips, integrations, status, styling, analytics, templates, goals, testing, checklists, feedback loop, dashboard reporting, no coding, targeting surveys, data access, trigger surveys, track performance, and more.
- Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.
Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Simile — Simile is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for automating and improving communication and collaboration through AI-driven tools. It offers solutions for creating and managing conversations, generating content, and analyzing interactions to support business workflows. The company integrates AI models to assist teams indrafting messages, responding to queries, and enhancing productivity across digital communication channels. Its platform combines natural language processing, automation, and data analysis to streamline communication tasks and improve organizational efficiency.
- Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
- The General Intelligence Company — Automate your life with natural language. Cofounder plugs into your existing tools, writes automations, and organizes workflows. Driving the software you're already familiar with.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- RunSybil — RunSybil is an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously evaluates applications and infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques, it autonomously identifies and exploits real-world security flaws through sophisticated penetration testing. By automating hacker-like intuition, RunSybil delivers proactivedefense capabilities, empowering organizations to strengthen the security of modern applications.
- Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
- Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
- Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.
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- Health Care, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
- Ceevra — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
- TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the leading AI-powered graph database. Uncover hidden relationships, run real-time analytics at scale, and power fraud detection, customer 360, and AI
Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Sentra — Sentra is your organizational memory system that transforms your company's collective knowledge, data and decisions into living intelligence.
- BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
- Deeptrace — Deeptrace develops AI SRE agents that detect, investigate, and resolve production incidents.
Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
- Pincites — Pincites AI speeds up contract reviews in Microsoft Word with AI-generated suggestions and centralized playbook management. To ensure reviews follow your precedent and preferences, Pincites will build contracting playbooks based on your templates and precedent negotiations.
- Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
- Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
- Yuzu Health — Automating health plan administration
Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
- Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Anthony Goldbloom is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaggle.com. He is also the Founder Partner at Founder Collective. Forbes has twice named Anthony one of the 30 under 30 in technology, the MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni ofDistinction Award.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- CoScreen — Bring your team closer to you. One click to share and remote control any window. Get things done together like never before.
- OpenAxis — OpenAxis makes it easy to tell stories with data. Discover insights, share, and visualize data with a community of data explorers and storytellers.
- Galileo — Galileo's AI observability and evaluation platform empowers AI teams to evaluate, monitor, and protect GenAI applications and agents at enterprise scale.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
- Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
- Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Distributed Spectrum — Gain actionable insights from the radio spectrum in real-time with small, cheap and efficient sensors from Distributed Spectrum
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.
Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
- NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI
Greg Brockman is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the President, Chairman and Co-Founder of OpenAI. Greg previously worked at Stripe as a CTO. Greg Brockman attended the Harvard University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
- Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
- Lumos — Lumos is the internal AppStore for companies. It speeds up access requests, access reviews and license management through self-service.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- latchkey — Latchkey helps software teams ship faster by eliminating CI/CD investigations.
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
- Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
- Distributed Spectrum — Gain actionable insights from the radio spectrum in real-time with small, cheap and efficient sensors from Distributed Spectrum
Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Sweden
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- Town — Town Assistant operates behind the scenes, managing everything from busywork to big ideas.
- Simile — Simile is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for automating and improving communication and collaboration through AI-driven tools. It offers solutions for creating and managing conversations, generating content, and analyzing interactions to support business workflows. The company integrates AI models to assist teams indrafting messages, responding to queries, and enhancing productivity across digital communication channels. Its platform combines natural language processing, automation, and data analysis to streamline communication tasks and improve organizational efficiency.
- Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, China, Canada
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- Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
- Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
- Entire — Entire is developing the world's next developer platform, allowing agents and humans to interact, learn, and ship together.
Jerry Yang is an Investor and Advisory Board Member of Sarcura. Jerry Yang attended the National Taiwan University and HEC Paris.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, China, Canada
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- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- Entire — Entire is developing the world's next developer platform, allowing agents and humans to interact, learn, and ship together.
- Clockwork Systems — 100% Software based solution to speed AI Jobs, eliminate Link/NIC failures and boost GPU utilization. Clockwork.io is built on breakthrough technology developed at Stanford University.
Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.
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- Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Jupiter is a specialized manufacturer of hair, scalp care and dandruff products.
Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- STARK — EUROPEAN DEFENCE SOVEREIGNTY
- Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
- Kriya Therapeutics — Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy to address common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. Learn more.
Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
- Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
- Senra Systems — Senra Systems operates in the manufacturing industry, focusing on software configuration to improve manufacturing processes. The company works to transform skilled assembly tasks into production lines, enhancing production efficiency. It also has involvement in the Aerospace and Defense industry. It collects anonymous data through Google Analyticsto analyze user behavior and use the insights to improve its services.
Frederic Kerrest is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta’s day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners and customers to deliver on the company’s mission of leveraging the cloud to make people more productive and IT more secure. As a key member of management, Frederic helps set corporatepriorities to drive success for the company and its customers.Frederic is passionate about enterprise technology and has spent almost two decades driving corporate efficiency via innovative software solutions. Prior to co-founding Okta, he worked at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, where he evaluated enterprise software investment opportunities and helped portfolio companies strengthen their operations and Go-To-Market strategies. From 2002 to 2007, Frederic worked in sales and business development at Salesforce.com, where he started and built the Latin America sales organization, Mobile group and OEM / Reseller programs and was a two-time Peak Performer Sales Award recipient. Prior to Salesforce.com, he co-founded and served as director of technology at an award-winning high-tech consulting firm. Frederic began his career in a variety of enterprise software development and management roles.Frederic earned a French Baccalauréat (Sciences) from the Lycée International de St. Germain-en-Laye in France, a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was the 2008 MIT Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award recipient. Frederic currently serves as an advisor to early stage software companies and a mentor at the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and the Stanford StartX Accelerator program. He enjoys spending time with his wife and son, reading historical biographies, playing ice hockey and supporting the San Jose Sharks.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Actively — A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences
- Datalinx AI — Datalinx AI is an agentic software application that prepares consumer data for AI models and applications quickly and securely.
- JetStream Security — JetStream Security is a platform for enterprise AI governance and security designed to manage, safeguard, and expand agentic AI in manufacturing. JetStream allows teams to define and approve AI behavior, ties all actions together, and offers continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and processes.
Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Ghost Message — Record and turn your classes into automated notes, quizzes, flashcards together with classmates.
Alessandro Piol is the President of Epistemic AI. He previously worked at Vedanta Capital as an Owner, President and co-founder. Alessandro Piol attended Columbia Engineering.
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- Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States
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- Vaidio — Vaidio is a U.S.-based company that provides AI-powered video analytics to help organizations enhance safety, security, and operational effectiveness. At the core of Vaidio’s offering is the Vaidio AI Vision Platform, which transforms video into actionable insights through real-time monitoring, sub-2-second forensic video search, and businessintelligence. Vaidio supports 21+ AI engines and integrates with any camera, VMS, or infrastructure—on-prem, cloud, SaaS, or edge—without requiring costly rip-and-replace projects. Vaidio serves customers across industries including critical infrastructure, education, transportation, healthcare, and retail. By reducing response times, eliminating manual review, and enabling smarter decisions, Vaidio helps organizations operate more safely, securely, and effectively.
- Epistemic AI — At Epistemic AI we are building the next generation of tools to accelerate biomedical research with AI and NLP.We are a group of senior scientists and engineers from the likes of Google, New York University, Stanford and more. We are dedicated to enabling advances in biomedical research and practice with AI and NLP.We are creating a movement ofpeople enthusiastically committed to a new vision for the future of biomedical research and we hope you want to join us.
- Quantum bridge technologies QBT — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
Konstantin von Unger is a an experienced investor in technology companies and an independent Board member. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee at Henkel AG and as the Chairman of the supervisory board at the Henkel Family Office. Konstantin attended London Business School and Brown University.
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- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
- Mosaic.tech — Mosaic.tech combines big data and machine learning that provides predictive reporting capabilities, leveling the playing field, and giving startups tools and insights for large enterprises. Its one-click integrations and real-time analytics offer clear insights and straightforward recommendations. Mosaic provides greater visibility into the mostimportant dynamics of the business.Founded in 2019, Mosaic.tech is headquartered in San Diego, California.
- Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory.
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- Aerospace, National Security, Military
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
- Solestial — Delivering cost-effective, reliable and safe solutions to power the new space economy.
- Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation
Jeff Seibert is the Co-Founder of CEO of Digits. He previously worked at Pix.wine as a Board Member. Jeff Seibert attended Stanford University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- LLM Shield — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
- Finch Legal — Finch Legal is a software development company that supports personal injury law firms. The company aims to provide practical and effective legal solutions, as suggested by its commitment to serving clients better and more efficiently.
- Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Denmark
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- Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
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- Software, Analytics, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
- CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
- Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Tom Chavez is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Co-Founder & General Partner of super{set} and Founder and Board member of The Ethical Tech Project. Tom previously worked at Krux as a CEO and Co-founder. Tom Chavez attended Harvard University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- Kogniz — Explore the latest phone apps and stay protected with expert tips on mobile security, privacy, and safe tech use.
- TruValue Labs — Build sustainable investment strategies and create multi-asset class reports with flexible ESG data, research, and analytics for all phases of the portfolio lifecycle.
- LiftIgniter — LiftIgniter is a machine learning platform that personalizes content and product recommendations in real-time to optimize conversions and provide a better customer experience for your website.
Guillermo Rauch is based out of Lanús, Buenos Aires and is the CEO of Vercel. Guillermo previously worked at MooTools as a frontend engineer.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Aravolta — Aravolta provides software that helps data center operators monitor, control, and manage complex infrastructure through a unified platform. The company’s products combine data center infrastructure management, network monitoring, and asset tracking into a single interface to support real-time visibility and operational workflows. Its platformincludes tools for automated alerts, infrastructure planning, compliance reporting, and integration with diverse hardware systems to streamline workflows and visibility across electrical, cooling, and IT assets. Aravolta also offers features such as customizable customer portals and remote monitoring capabilities that enable remote oversight and control of modular or distributed facilities. Its services target colocation providers, cloud operators, and data center managers seeking integrated operational and compliance software solutions.
- Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
- Natural — Payments for AI agents.
Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
- Evercoin — Evercoin is a mobile application that provides a cryptocurrency exchange service. The application allows users to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash. Users can also trade from the safety and control of their own wallet. Evercoin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- Garnet Labs — Protect modern dev/ops environments with behavioral monitoring, threat detection and enforcement. Detect and block unknown threats in real-time before they impact users.
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
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- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
- E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
- Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] playground for beauty enthusiasts
Charlie Cheever is the Co-Founder of Expo. He was also a Co-Founder of Prior to joining Facebook, Charlie served as a Software Development Engineer at Charlie graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
- Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
- Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
Sahin Boydas is the PEF Chapter Lead of PEF Community. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com as CEO and Founder. Sahin Boydas attended Koç University, where he took a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, and Bahcesehir University, where he took a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Norway
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- Labtree — Labtree is an AI-powered collaborative R&D platform that prevents experimental failures before labs waste their time and money.
- You.com — you.com is a search engine that helps users find what they're looking for by prioritizing real results. It aims to take on Google and other search engines dependent on advertising. It offers privacy controls to let users customize their browsing experience. It raises the bar on privacy, offering a zero trace incognito mode. It never tracksusers on the internet.You.com was developed by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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- RunSybil — RunSybil is an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously evaluates applications and infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques, it autonomously identifies and exploits real-world security flaws through sophisticated penetration testing. By automating hacker-like intuition, RunSybil delivers proactivedefense capabilities, empowering organizations to strengthen the security of modern applications.
- Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
- Supermemory — Supermemory offers a platform for organizing and retrieving saved knowledge through a combination of memory APIs, semantic search, and integrated tools. It enables users and developers to import content from documents, bookmarks, and external services, and then query that content using natural language. Supermemory supports workflows like building“second brain” systems, intelligent agents, and knowledge bases by connecting context across documents. It provides permission controls and integration with large language models to allow applications to maintain stateful, evolving memory. Supermemory also addresses use-cases in research, content writing, support systems, and enterprise knowledge management.
Peter Livingston is the Founder and General Partner at Unpopular Ventures. Peter attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Internet, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Peru, India
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- Rinse — We personally pick up, professionally clean, and hand deliver your clothes to your door. Rinse gives you superior quality and personal service. Guaranteed.
- Landis — We buy your dream home and coach you towards mortgage eligibility. You rent to own your home until you are prepared to buy.
- HODL Media — HODL Media is the publisher of the popular HODL app, a real-time crypto & stock market tracker.
Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Singapore
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- Basis — AI agents built specifically for accountants.
- Mach9 — Mach9 is building the operating system for cities. We're monitoring surface and underground infrastructure to predict and prevent infrastructure failures.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Oleg Rogynskyy is the Founder and CEO at People.ai. Prior to People.ai Oleg helped start and scale three big data companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has had an interest in data science, machine-learning and text analytics. At People.ai Oleg is leveraging these technologies to solve theage-old problem of measuring and optimizing human productivity.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Ukraine
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- HIMERA — A resilient communication system that operates in the most challenging conditions.
- Pomerium — Pomerium enables clientless, secure connections to your applications without a VPN
- Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.
Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior tohis move into the business of technology, Howard served as a professor at the Wharton School and the Moore School, both at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cornell University. He is also an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley. Howard’s research on user interface technology and the optimization of computer networks was critical to bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in the 1970s. Through this early internet participation, he helped corporate and government agencies use technology to improve the efficiency of both large and small organizations. He also has deep experience with very large databases, and served as the first Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Journal. Throughout his career, Howard has sought out great people and nurtured them so that they could realize their dreams. His mentees have included both PhD students researching a key topic, and early stage entrepreneurs building companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He currently serves as a Director of Idealab, and he is on the board of several non-profits including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America. He has also served on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He was CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods and in 1997 he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences. Howard received a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a BS in Physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, India
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- Aktivate — Aktivate provides a SaaS based tecnology platform for K-12 schools to manage and fund scholastic sports. The system features administration and engagement tools to bring together student-athletes, their families, schools, and valued partners.
- NeuroKaire — Genetika+ is revolutionzing depression treatment. Using biological, medical and genetic data, GenetikaPlus develops personalized solution for every patient to help them recover better, faster.
- HATCH — HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving!
Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.
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- Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
- Uplift — Rebuilding mental healthcare to work for everyone
Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures
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- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
- Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
Ihar Mahaniok is the Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. Ihar Mahaniok attended Belarusian State University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Ukraine
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- Localie — Global community, that makes you feel at home no matter where you are.
- Workee — Workee is a back-office for freelancers. We are helping appointment led professionals (such as coaches, health experts, tutors, lawyers) to manage their accounting, invoices, client and work management in one place out of the box. We save at least 4 hours per week and at least $200-$400 per month.
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.
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- Software, Finance, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France
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- Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
- Rheaply — Rheaply provides procurement management software to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources. Its platform develops the exchange technology for researchers to share their ideas and surplus resources with colleagues to reduce time, costs, as well as environmental waste that enable clients to help lower procurement and storage costs and reducewaste.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
- StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
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