AMD
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
AMD is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics, processors, and media solutions for both commercial and consumer markets. focuses on innovations related to gaming technologies, surround computing, Pro graphics technologies, enhanced media, business technologies, server technologies, embedded technologies,security technologies, and mobility technologies.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries AMD invests in
Stages AMD invests in
Countries AMD invests in
Contacts
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Andre Heidekrueger
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Ava Hahn
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Jean Hu
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Joseph Macri
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Lynn Comp
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 14 (52%)
- Software 8 (30%)
- Generative AI 3 (11%)
- Semiconductor 3 (11%)
- Machine Learning 3 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (26%)
- Seed 3 (11%)
- Funding Round 3 (11%)
- Series D 2 (7%)
- Private Equity 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 17 (63%)
- South Korea 2 (7%)
- Japan 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Andre Heidekrueger
Solution Architect Datacenter Products EMEA
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Solution Architect Datacenter Products EMEA | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ava Hahn
SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jean Hu
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Joseph Macri
Vice President/CTO
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Vice President/CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Lynn Comp
Corporate Vice President, Cloud Business Group
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Corporate Vice President, Cloud Business Group | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 19 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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DriveNets
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DriveNets is a fast-growing IP networking software company that revolutionizes Communications Service Provider (CSP) networks by disaggregating the network infrastructure from core to edge, similar to the way hyperscalers have disaggregated the cloud. DriveNets Network Cloud is an open distributed disaggregated networking solution based oncloud-native software and standard networking white boxes.The company was founded in 2016 by Ido Susan and Hillel. | $410M / Series D / Jun 01, 2026 | |
World Labs
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World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities. | $1B / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2026 | |
Cerebras Systems
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Cerebras Systems is a startup backed by premier venture capitalists and the industry’s most successful technologists. They are serially successful entrepreneurs dedicated to solving problems others are afraid to tackle. They value integrity, passion, real world problem solving ability, and a sense of humor. | $1B / Series H / Feb 04, 2026 | |
Eliyan
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Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. | $50M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2026 | |
Genki Robotics
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Genki Robotics is a humanoid robotics that offers to aid practical applications of physical AI. | $50M / Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | |
Sciforium
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Sciforium builds the next generation of AI models with unprecedented efficiency, privacy, and versatility. | $12M / Seed / Oct 27, 2025 | |
Uniphore
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Uniphore is a global conversational AI technology company that offers a customer service platform that is powered by AI and automation technologies. The company’s vision is to bridge the gap between people and machines through voice. Uniphore enables businesses globally to deliver transformational customer service by providing a platform ofConversational Analytics, Conversational Assistant, and Conversational Security that changes the way enterprises engage their consumers, build loyalty and realize efficiencies.It was founded in 2008 and has offices in the U.S., India, and Singapore. | $260M / Series F / Oct 22, 2025 | |
Upstage
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Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure. | $44.5M / Series B / Aug 19, 2025 | |
CHAI AI
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The Leading Platform For Chat AI. More human. Less filters. | $47M / Jul 02, 2025 | |
Luma AI
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Luma AI develops tools that let users generate photorealistic images and videos from text, image, or video prompts via its Dream Machine platform. Its models learn from multimodal data, including video, audio, and language to build “world models” that can reason about motion, context, and physics. It provides access through a web app, iOS app, andAPI, enabling creative professionals to scale visuals for storytelling, advertising, animation, gaming, and more. For enterprises, Luma offers a secure full-stack solution with data ownership, legal clarity, and customizable AI models. | Dec 06, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does AMD invest in?
AMD invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Generative AI startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 27 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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The team at AMD includes Andre Heidekrueger (Solution Architect Datacenter Products EMEA), Ava Hahn (SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary) and Jean Hu (CFO), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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