Basis Set Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and its practical application.
- Total investments:
- 140
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
- Fund size:
- $250M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Basis Set Ventures invests in
Stages Basis Set Ventures invests in
Countries Basis Set Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $770k–$5M
- Series A
- $7.2M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 39 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 39 (28%)
- Machine Learning 14 (10%)
- Information Technology 12 (9%)
- SaaS 11 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 65 (46%)
- Series A 42 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (7%)
- Series B 9 (6%)
- Series C 3 (2%)
Country
- United States 82 (59%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- Japan 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Mannes
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lan Xuezhao
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 35 | Find email | |
Lisa Chen
Operations Manager
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Operations Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rachel Wong
Head of Data Science
|
Head of Data Science | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Wilson Kyi
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gravity is an AI ad platform enabling AI apps to monetize conversations with contextual ads, targeting users through conversational intent. | $30.5M / Series A / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Agentic video editing for motion graphics and post-prod. Launch films, storytelling and new media for frontier tech co's | $5M / Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| SentientWorksAI is an interactive AI platform for brands, studios, learning platforms, sales teams, and customer experience organizations. Through AI avatars, intelligent video, and visual agents, it transforms static content into responsive digital experiences that can communicate naturally, adapt to different contexts, and support producteducation, customer engagement, training, and branded interactions. | $1.8M / Series A / Jul 25, 2026 | ||
| Tomo is an AI technology company that develops a text-based AI assistant for managing tasks, schedules, reminders, and everyday productivity. | $5M / Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Neion Bio uses advances in stem cell biology and genetic engineering to completely reimagine the biopharmaceutical production process. | $23M / Series A / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Orbital is a startup that is creating artificial intelligence data centers for deployment in low-Earth orbit to circumvent terrestrial power and cooling limits. The company specializes in satellite-based compute for AI inference workloads, utilizing continuous solar power and space's inherent radiative cooling. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Synthetic provides an autonomous accounting agent that processes financial data and produces completed monthly books with minimal manual input. Its system handles tasks such as transaction categorization, reconciliation, and financial record generation. The platform is designed to integrate with existing financial tools and maintain structured,auditable outputs. | $10M / Seed / May 14, 2026 | ||
| Basata develops AI-powered tools that help healthcare practices manage administrative workflows such as referrals, scheduling, document processing, and patient communications. The company’s platform integrates with existing electronic health record systems and automates tasks related to faxes, phone calls, and patient intake. Its solutions aredesigned to reduce administrative workload for healthcare staff while improving the speed of patient scheduling and document handling. Basata also provides AI voice agents and document-processing systems that help healthcare organizations handle high volumes of operational tasks more efficiently. The company works with medical practices and healthcare networks to streamline back-office operations and improve coordination across administrative processes. | $21M / Series A / May 08, 2026 | ||
| Pursuit removes friction from public sector contracting. | $22M / Series A / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| PrismVault is building a more programmable future for biological R&D. By connecting machine learning, experimental data, and protein optimization workflows, the platform helps biopharma, industrial bio, and academic research teams generate candidates, optimize multiple properties, and make better R&D decisions in fewer experimental rounds.Whether the program focuses on antibodies, enzymes, vaccines, or peptides, PrismVault enables teams to explore sequence space more efficiently, balance complex constraints, and turn every round of lab work into a smarter next step. | $3.2M / Series A / Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 140 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Basis Set Ventures invest in?
Basis Set Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 140 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 Basis Set Ventures's check size?
Basis Set Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $770k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $7.2M–$50M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Basis Set Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Basis Set Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Basis Set Ventures?
The team at Basis Set Ventures includes John Mannes (Partner), Lan Xuezhao (Founder and Managing Partner) and Lisa Chen (Operations Manager), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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