# Chris Prucha

> Chris Prucha is a seed investor backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherprucha
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/chrisprucha

Chris Prucha is an entrepreneur that Co-Founded Notion and Origin (acquired by Stratasys). Before that, he was a software engineer at Apple.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Big Data | 1 | 11% |
| Hardware | 1 | 11% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jamix | Jamix is your AI assistant for work. We connect with your company's apps, data, and APIs. This enables you to search across your apps, chat with your data, and automate daily tasks. We take your data security and privacy seriously, and never train models using your data. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 | https://www.jamix.ai |
| TextQL | TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M | Seed | Jan 24, 2024 | https://www.textql.com/ |
| Nous Research | Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $20M | Seed | Jan 10, 2024 | https://nousresearch.com |
| TextQL | TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2023 | https://www.textql.com/ |
| TextQL | TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M | Seed | Dec 12, 2023 | https://www.textql.com/ |
| Extropic AI | Extropic AI is a hardware startup that is building a chip optimized to run large language models, or LLMs. | $14.1M | Seed | Dec 04, 2023 | https://www.extropic.ai/ |
| Liquid AI | Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI | $37.5M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 | http://liquid.ai/ |
| Lumafield | Lumafield develops industrial computed tomography (CT) solutions for non-destructive testing and inspection for engineers. Its Neptune X-ray CT scanner provides detailed imaging for engineers to analyze internal structures and detect defects in various materials. The Voyager software platform enables cloud-based AI-powered analysis, offeringautomated inspections and collaboration tools. Triton, its high-speed CT system, is designed for rapid scanning in high-volume manufacturing environments. Lumafield’s solutions serve industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, and medical devices, helping improve product quality and reliability. |  | Seed | Aug 23, 2019 | https://www.lumafield.com/ |
| Moesif | Moesif helps product-led teams grow and monetize usage of AI and API products with a powerful API analytics and billing platform. Moesif's customers span financial, healthtech, logistics and enterprise software including fast-growing startups like You.com and PandaDoc as well as large enterprises like UPS and Sinch. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 04, 2019 | https://www.moesif.com |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Firsthand Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthand-alliance) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Firsthand Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthand-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Neo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-innovation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OSS Capital L.P.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oss-capital-l-p) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Page One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/page-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Prucha invest in?

Chris Prucha invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Chris Prucha?

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### When did Chris Prucha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Prucha closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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