Andrej Karpathy
Angel Investor
Palo Alto, United States
Andrej Karpathy is a seed investor in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Andrej Karpathy was the Sr. Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot. He attended the University of Toronto and had his Master's degree at the University of British Columbia.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Andrej Karpathy invests in
Stages Andrej Karpathy invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$180M
- Series A
- $25M–$100M
- Series B
- $63M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (48%)
- Software 2 (9%)
- Cloud Computing 2 (9%)
- Information Technology 2 (9%)
- GPU 1 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (35%)
- Series A 5 (22%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 13 (57%)
- Nicaragua 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Intelligence operates as an AI research company. Standard Intelligence develops FDM-1 which is optimized for computer use tasks. | $75M / Series A / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| 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. | $100M / Series A / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Flapping Airplanes is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on advancing foundational AI technologies with an emphasis on data-efficient model development and fundamental research into next-generation learning approaches. The organization’s work centers on exploring alternative training paradigms that reduce dependency on massivedatasets and compute scale, aiming to enable systems that learn with efficiency more akin to human cognition rather than brute-force training methods. Its team includes researchers and technical experts pursuing long-horizon scientific challenges in AI architecture, training mechanisms, and algorithmic innovation. Flapping Airplanes engages with investors and collaborators to support its research agenda, backing efforts that expand the theoretical and practical frontiers of artificial intelligence without immediate commercial product constraints. While the lab operates primarily as a research-first initiative, its findings are intended to inform future applications in areas such as enterprise AI, robotics, scientific discovery, and decision systems. The company’s strategy reflects a shift away from traditional scale-focused AI development toward exploring deep, principled advances in learning efficiency and model capabilities. | $180M / Seed / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| A company developing diffusion based large language models | $50M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M / Angel / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Brain Co. is a San Francisco-based AI company, that partners with large enterprises and governments to build secure, impactful AI platforms and applications for real-world problems. It delivers faster, cost-saving, and reliable AI solutions, including automation and optimization across sectors like healthcare, energy, and government. R | $30M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Prime Intellect is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company that develops an open platform for training, deploying, and continuously improving AI models and agents. It combines AI infrastructure, reinforcement learning (RL) tooling, compute orchestration, and open-source research to make frontier AI training accessible to organizations ofall sizes. Its platform enables enterprises and researchers to build, evaluate, fine-tune, and deploy custom AI models while leveraging globally distributed compute resources.The company's platform provides an integrated stack for compute, RL post-training, evaluation, inference, and agent development. Its offerings include hosted model training on thousands of reinforcement learning environments, evaluation tools with public leaderboards, one-click deployment for fine-tuned models, and infrastructure that continuously feeds production data back into training workflows. Prime Intellect also operates an Environment Hub containing thousands of open-source RL environments and develops prime-rl, an open-source framework for large-scale asynchronous reinforcement learning. | $15M / Seed / Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, a curated software stack for seamless integration of MLtools, and consulting services that help build scalable ML infrastructure and workflows. | $480M / Series D / Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| /dev/agents platform will work on new UI patterns that make it easier to build AI agents in a new cloud-based operating system. | $56M / Seed / Nov 26, 2024 | ||
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. | $230M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 13, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Andrej Karpathy invest in?
Andrej Karpathy invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Andrej Karpathy's check size?
Andrej Karpathy typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$180M at Seed, $25M–$100M at Series A and $63M–$80M 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 Andrej Karpathy participates in.
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When did Andrej Karpathy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Andrej Karpathy closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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