# Barak Berkowitz

> Barak Berkowitz is a seed investor at MIT Media Lab backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MIT Media Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mit-media-lab)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barakberk

Barak Berkowitz is a seed investor at MIT Media Lab in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Barak Berkowitz - Director of Operations and Strategy @ MIT Media Lab

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unlikely AI | Unlikely AI is a talented group that is approaching artificial intelligence from a daring, fresh angle. | $20.3M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Unlikely AI | Unlikely AI is a talented group that is approaching artificial intelligence from a daring, fresh angle. | $1.4M | Angel | Oct 01, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cambridge Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Metaplanet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metaplanet-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MIT Media Lab

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, andaffective computing.Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in more than 25 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner.”The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.

5 contacts available at MIT Media Lab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hanft | Member of the Board of Advisors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hanft |
| Andrew Lippman | Sr Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lippman |
| Barak Berkowitz | Director of Operations and Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barak-berkowitz |
| John Edge | Fellow, Connection Science | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-edge |
| Agnis Stibe | Social Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agnis-stibe |

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## FAQ

### What does Barak Berkowitz invest in?

Barak Berkowitz invests primarily in Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Barak Berkowitz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Barak Berkowitz closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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