# Mehdi Ghissassi

> Mehdi Ghissassi is a seed investor at Google DeepMind backing Artificial Intelligence. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google DeepMind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepmind)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mghissassi

Mehdi Ghissassi is a seed investor at Google DeepMind in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$13M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.7M–$8.4M |
| Series A | $12M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 49% |
| Software | 15 | 35% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 26% |
| Internet | 5 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 12% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 30% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 14% |
| France | 5 | 12% |
| Germany | 5 | 12% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 7% |
| Sweden | 2 | 5% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marker | A writing tool for people who believe in writing | $13.4M | Seed | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Scope AI | Scope AI is a software development platform that offers AI-driven industrial software inspection and faster decision-making. | $20M | Series A | May 19, 2026 |  |
| White Circle | White Circle detects and fixes AI vulnerabilities automatically, keeping your system under control. | $11M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Pomo | Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Gradium | Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion. | $70M | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Cercli | Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $12M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Afori | Afori provides intelligent task management and workflow automation by using specialised AI agents. | $4.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Forgent AI | Forgent AI creates domain-specific AI agents to assist enterprises in securing, winning, and delivering public sector contracts. | $5.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Palabra.ai | Palabra AI is a cutting-edge AI-powered platform that enables real-time speech translation and voice interpretation across audio/video chats, live events, and streaming applications. | $8.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| MarvelX | MarvelX builds the agentic AI platform for regulated industries sush as insurance. | $6M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Google DeepMind

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

DeepMind Technologies Ltd. operates as an artificial intelligence company. They build general-purpose algorithms for use in simulations, e-commerce applications, and games. DeepMind markets its products and services internationally. DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact.They re ona scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how.They believe this will be one of the most important and widely beneficial scientific advances ever made, increasing their capacity to understand the mysteries of the universe and to tackle some of their most pressing real-world challenges. From climate change to the need for radically improved healthcare, too many problems suffer from painfully slow progress, their complexity overwhelming their ability to find solutions. With AI as a multiplier for human ingenuity, those solutions will come into reach.

5 contacts available at Google DeepMind.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Demis Hassabis | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/demis-hassabis |
| Douwe Kiela | Research Scientist Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douwe-kiela-68b7 |
| Oriol Vinyals | Principal Research Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oriol-vinyals |
| Satinder Singh Baveja | Research Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satinder-singh-baveja |
| Vishal Maini | Research Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vishal-maini |

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## FAQ

### What does Mehdi Ghissassi invest in?

Mehdi Ghissassi invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mehdi Ghissassi's check size?

Mehdi Ghissassi typically joins rounds of $3M–$13M at Seed, $1.7M–$8.4M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$26M 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 Mehdi Ghissassi participates in.

### When did Mehdi Ghissassi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mehdi Ghissassi closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 43 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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