# Founders.ai

> Founders.ai is a VC fund in Mountain View backing Software and SaaS. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/42342830/admin/
- Website: https://x.com/FoundersAI
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aifounders

Founders.ai is a VC fund in Mountain View focused on Software and SaaS. Founders.ai builds companies from scratch, makes venture investments, and buys shares on a secondary market. The aim of the Founders.ai startup platform is to enable tenacious people around the world to build companies that will improve work and life with AI and data.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 57% |
| SaaS | 4 | 29% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 36% |
| Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| Canada | 2 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Rumiantsau | Founder, Managing Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Activeloop | Activeloop believes that Software 2.0 needs Data 2.0. Our open-source library Hub is one of the fastest-growing libraries on GitHub, enabling data science teams collaborate at scale and easily connect CV datasets to ML models. Activeloop's stack is used by Google, Waymo, Red Cross and others. Activeloop is founded by PhDs from PrincetonUniversity, ex-Google, ex-Equinix, ex-Amazon employees. We are backed by Y Combinator and other prominent investors from Silicon Valley. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2023 |  |
| Britive | Our solution is cloud-native, delivering multi-cloud privileged access visibility, policy enforcement, and threat monitoring all in one platform. ​ Britive significantly increases operational efficiency by instant provisioning of cloud privileges to users and making them productive from day one. | $20.5M | Series B | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| Sensorydata Corp | Sensorydata Corp is building a platform to capture data from vital senses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Databook | Databook is a pioneer and leader in agentic workflows for enterprise go-to-market teams. The company’s award-winning platform integrates licensed datasets, patented algorithms, and deep domain expertise to help top sales teams align solutions with buyer pain points and close larger deals at scale. Elite sales teams such as Salesforce, Microsoft andDatabricks use Databook to achieve superior results like 2.5x larger deals and 1.5x faster deal cycles. Learn more at databook.com. | $50M | Series B | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Klue | B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $62M | Series B | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Contra | Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.It provides flexible work opportunities from people through an exclusive community and referral network by showcasing work portfolios that enable freelancers and other independent professionals to earn a living on their own terms.The SanFrancisco, California-based company was established in 2019 by Ben Huffman and Gajus Kuizinas. | $30M | Series B | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Nylas | Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready. | $120M | Series C | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Commit | Commit is the professional network for the world's best Startup Engineers. | $6M | Seed | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Gainy | While trading became easy for tens of millions of retail investors with Robinhood, choosing the right balanced portfolio is rocket science for most. With our mobile app, anyone will be able to set goals and pick up the right investments.New stock market analysis software is built for professionals in mind: complicated user interfaces withhundreds of parameters that only financial experts can understand. Gainy will allow retail investors to make more confident investment decisions by bringing only needed metrics and information in a simplified view that is personalized to our user’s profile and goals. Think of Pinterest recommendations for financial markets. | $200K | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2021 |  |
| Upsolver | Upsolver lets you build continuous pipelines for your cloud data lake using SQL and pipeline automation. No custom coding. No orchestration. No infrastructure maintenance. | $25M | Series B | Apr 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m12) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Founders.ai invest in?

Founders.ai invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Founders.ai?

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### Who are the partners at Founders.ai?

The team at Founders.ai includes Michael Rumiantsau (Founder, Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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