Alchemist Accelerator
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Alchemist Accelerator is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on the median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, prioritizing havingdistinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community throughout a 6-month program. The company's backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley -- including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others—the accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures/year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.
- Total investments:
- 639
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $1.4M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Alchemist Accelerator invests in
Stages Alchemist Accelerator invests in
Countries Alchemist Accelerator invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 201 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 141 (22%)
- Information Technology 101 (16%)
- SaaS 81 (13%)
- Machine Learning 76 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 305 (48%)
- Pre-Seed 176 (28%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 49 (8%)
- Funding Round 17 (3%)
- Convertible Note 15 (2%)
Country
- United States 400 (63%)
- Canada 18 (3%)
- Germany 10 (2%)
- India 7 (1%)
- Japan 7 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Albert Kim
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Andrew McMahon
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Arun Shekar
Mentor & Advisor
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Mentor & Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ash Rust
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Asif Khan
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 40 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbo Law is a privately held legal technology company that provides an AI-native execution platform designed to simplify complex, document-intensive litigation for defense law firms and insurance carriers. | $3.8M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| The engineering intelligence layer for industrial facilities. Every critical engineering document in your facility's archive — P&IDs, piping isometrics, PFDs, line lists — contextualized, unified, and queryable. Deployed on your cloud or on-premise. In production today. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| QodeX Quantum offers quantum-native AI models and a platform to train and deploy them at scale. | $50K / Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Donkit is building the RAGOps Agent — an AI system that automates the full lifecycle of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): from deployment to experimentation to evaluation.With Donkit, enterprises can go from a natural language prompt to a production-ready RAG pipeline in hours — not months — and with higher accuracy. The system runs 100+parallel experiments, evaluates results automatically, and delivers the optimal configuration for each dataset and use case.Donkit is cloud-agnostic, works across OpenAI, open-source, or fine-tuned models, and can be deployed in any environment — public cloud, hybrid, or fully on-prem — without vendor lock-in.By eliminating the need for DevOps-heavy workflows and costly AI teams, Donkit helps CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of AI scale AI use cases faster, cheaper, and with better results.:) Donkit transforms “Can we deploy this AI use case?” into “It’s already live.” | $200K / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Zeehub AI empowers manufacturing executive leaders and workers by delivering precise enterprise systems knowledge to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making.Underutilized Workers and Skill Gaps The manufacturing industry faces a significant challenge—a projected $2 trillion economic impact in the next 5-7 years due to underutilizedworkers and skill gaps. Fragmented data, inefficient processes, and inexperienced workers lacking access to tribal knowledge contribute to this pressing issue.An AI-powered platform for manufacturing that enables executives, plant managers, and field engineers to uncover multi-modal personalized insights from industrial data using natural language and voice commands without expensive data scientists. | Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| Cosign AI is a digital assistant that will revolutionize your clinical workflow. | Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| Melurna is an AI platform that maps sensitive data flows and helps organizations manage third party privacy risk and compliance. | Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| We have created a cutting-edge bio-nanotechnology platform that generates various types of nanoparticles with applications in agriculture. Our approach harnesses the power of nanotechnology while also utilizing the distinctive attributes of carefully selected microorganisms. | Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| Pairity is an platform that unifies fragmented human data into actionable profiles for informed decision making. | Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| FotoNow is an AI-powered visual inspection system developed to identify and solve a wide range of manufacturing quality issues. It offers a fully automated error tracking and identification for optimized manufacturing agility and quality, factory throughput, and capital spending. | $4.2M / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| See all 639 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Alchemist Accelerator invest in?
Alchemist Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 639 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Alchemist Accelerator?
The team at Alchemist Accelerator includes Albert Kim (Investor), Andrew McMahon (Mentor) and Arun Shekar (Mentor & Advisor), among 40 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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