# Amazon Alexa Fund

> Amazon Alexa Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 142 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 142
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/amazon-alexa-fund
- Website: http://www.amazon.com/

Amazon Alexa Fund is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$5.7M |
| Series A | $5.1M–$46M |
| Series B | $11M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 32 | 23% |
| Machine Learning | 15 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 11% |
| Internet of Things | 13 | 9% |

170 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 40 | 28% |
| Series A | 28 | 20% |
| Series B | 20 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 86 | 61% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 4% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Finland | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rodrigo Prudencio | Fund Development | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigo-prudencio |
| Zain Gulamali | Investor | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zain-gulamali |
| Brian Adams | Portfolio Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-adams-df79 |
| Hanns Anders | Venture Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanns-anders |
| Paul Bernard | Director | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-bernard-98ff |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hearvana | Hearvana is a IT consulting company. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Fable Studio | Fable Studio aims to create and nurture characters with style and approachability. Fable creator-driven teams remain nimble enough to take necessary risks and explore more than we could in a traditional pipeline. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| IXI | Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision. |  | Series A | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Heyboss.xyz | Smart AI Friends that Help Kids Learn | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Heyboss | AI engineer for non-coders, backed by OpenAI. Get your personal AI engineer to build apps, websites and games without you writing any code. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Volley | Volley is the leading creator of AI-powered games for smart TVs and Amazon Alexa devices. Popular Volley games include Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, 20 Questions, and Question of the Day. The company's platform offers a wide range of voice-based games and develops interactive stories and podcasts with artificial intelligence systems, enablingusers to enjoy audio entertainment experiences. | $55M | Series C | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Skild AI | Skild AI is a startup that develops software to power various robots including ones with two or four legs. | $300M | Series A | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| DatologyAI | DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation. | $46M | Series A | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Please Platforms, Inc. | Consumer, AI, Agents, Personalization |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| BP-FLAC | BP-FLAC is an AI and a vast computing pool, provides limitless expansion possibilities for web3. | $10M | Seed | Nov 18, 2023 |  |

10 of 142 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Alexa Accelerator, Powered by Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-alexa) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Relay Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/relay-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Amazon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Amazon Alexa Fund invest in?

Amazon Alexa Fund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 142 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amazon Alexa Fund's check size?

Amazon Alexa Fund typically joins rounds of $120k–$5.7M at Seed, $5.1M–$46M at Series A and $11M–$120M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amazon Alexa Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Amazon Alexa Fund?

Public channels for Amazon Alexa Fund include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Amazon Alexa Fund?

The team at Amazon Alexa Fund includes Rodrigo Prudencio (Fund Development), Zain Gulamali (Investor) and Brian Adams (Portfolio Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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