# AI Fund

> AI Fund is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 81 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 81
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Fund size: $175M
- Last fund: Jan 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aifund/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/ai_fund
- Website: https://aifund.ai/

AI Fund is a venture capital firm that strives to move humanity forward by accelerating the adoption of AI. We work intensively with entrepreneurs during their startups’ most critical and risky phase, from 0 to 1. At the earliest stages, your company strategy is still being formed, and you’re still on the path to demonstrating your idea’s fullpotential — this is a reality we well understand. This is the period when decisions on product strategy, market fit, and team are most critical and a time when your company is most under-resourced. Even if you have a sense for the changes you need to make to be attractive to investors, moving fast and fixing parts of your business when you have limited resources is a challenge.We believe we help entrepreneurs best by providing our time, expertise, and resources to help flesh out these key strategic decisions. Making these choices well can often be the difference between success and failure. AI Fund is here to improve these dynamics, at a time when the help matters the most, leading to a significant upgrade in your company’s opportunity, strategy, and fundability.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for AI Fund. Shizune tracks 11 team members at AI Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/andrew-ng-ai-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 35 | 43% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 22% |
| Software | 16 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 14 | 17% |
| SaaS | 5 | 6% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 30% |
| Series A | 11 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 42 | 52% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Armenia | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Romania | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Ng | Managing General Partner | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-ng |
| David Norris | Founder in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-norris |
| Ellen Li | Head of Finance and Accounting | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-li-38f6 |
| Eva Wang | Partner, COO, General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eva-wang-340e |
| Hauke Hansen | Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hauke-hansen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Skyfire AI | Skyfire AI develops autonomous drone systems that use artificial intelligence for mission planning, data analysis, and aerial coordination. Its platform enables object detection, real-time tracking, and adaptive flight control for use in public safety, defense, and infrastructure. The technology supports tasks such as surveillance, inspection, andsearch and rescue by providing AI-driven insights and automated mission execution, including multi-drone deployments. | $11M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Gen AI Last | Gen AI Last is a technology company that specializes in leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize content creation. At the heart of Gen AI Last mission is the development of a cutting-edge AI content creator tool designed to assist businesses, marketers, writers, and creative professionals in generating high-quality,engaging, and contextually relevant content with unprecedented efficiency. | $550K | Seed | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| Haven Safety AI | Haven Safety AI provides an AI-native safety intelligence platform that supports the full lifecycle of workplace incident management. The platform analyzes incidents, reconstructs timelines, and guides root cause analysis using an industry safety knowledge graph. It captures multi-format evidence, structures witness statements, and recommendscorrective and preventive actions mapped to recognized safety frameworks. Haven targets high-risk industries such as energy, construction, manufacturing, and logistics where serious injury and fatality prevention is a priority. Its modules integrate with existing EHS and HR systems to help organizations move from reactive reporting to proactive risk reduction. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| BizTrip AI | BizTrip AI builds cutting-edge AI software to streamline business travel. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| IrisGo.AI | IrisGo combines powerful AI with intuitive design to create a digital butler that anticipates your needs and handles tasks before you even ask. | $2.1M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Profitmind | Netail enables retailers to auto-identify competitors across the internet and track their assortments, and optimize prices in real time, leading to dramatic increases in traffic, profits and revenue. | $9M | Series A | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| RapidFire AI | RapidFire AI provides an agile deep learning development platform to accelerate AI development while reducing infrastructure costs | $4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Callidus Legal AI | CallidusAI's staff brings extensive experience in data science, legal process improvement/automation, and enterprise SaaS. |  | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| StrongSuit | StrongSuit is an AI platform that automates legal research, document drafting, and contract review for litigation and transactional attorneys. The software integrates a proprietary database of over 10 million U.S. legal cases with AI models to generate legal briefs, memoranda, contract redlines, and discovery timelines. The platform includesanti-hallucination verification systems and maintains cited legal precedents for court-ready document output.The software serves solo practitioners, small to mid-sized law firms, and in-house legal departments through a cloud-based interface with Microsoft Word integration. Core modules include legal research with case law retrieval, litigation document drafting, contract analysis and redlining, document review automation, and timeline generation from case files. Callidus operates on a subscription model starting at $149 per user monthly, with enterprise features including SSO integration and volume pricing available for larger organizations. | $10M | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| IrisGo.AI | IrisGo combines powerful AI with intuitive design to create a digital butler that anticipates your needs and handles tasks before you even ask. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |

10 of 81 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [RTP Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rtp-global) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Basis Set Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basis-set-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AI Fund invest in?

AI Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 81 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact AI Fund?

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### Who are the partners at AI Fund?

The team at AI Fund includes Andrew Ng (Managing General Partner), David Norris (Founder in Residence) and Ellen Li (Head of Finance and Accounting), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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