# Neo

> Neo is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 129 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 129
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Fund size: $235M
- Last fund: May 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neoventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/neo
- Website: http://www.neo.com

Neo is an accelerator firm that invests in technology consulting and information service startups.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Neo. Shizune tracks 8 team members at Neo. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/neo-vc?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 9% |
| FinTech | 9 | 7% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 7% |

109 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 60 | 47% |
| Series A | 23 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 13% |
| Series B | 9 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 77 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Partovi | Founder and CEO | 106 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-partovi |
| Emily Cohen | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-cohen-c51d |
| Evan Henshaw-Plath | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rabble-evan-henshaw-plath |
| Healy Jones | Head of Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healy-jones |
| Ken Barker | Regional Leader - United States | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-barker |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matey | Developer of an AI-powered eDiscovery platform designed to search and sort large volumes of electronic data. | $7.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| VibeCode | VibeCode allows you to build mobile apps directly from your phone. Simply download the VibeCode app, put in your idea, and our agent will build your app for you. You can keep adding more features and functionality to your app. Then, when you're ready, we help you export the app to the App Store and Play Store! | $9.4M | Seed | Aug 13, 2025 |  |
| Mako | Mako makes deploying AI models easier, AI-powered compiler enabling high performance on any GPU. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Chai Discovery | Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $70M | Series A | Aug 06, 2025 |  |
| Hiretic | Hiretic empowers global businesses with human-centered, high-performance customer support solutions. As a modern customer experience outsourcing partner, the company helps growing organizations build exceptional support teams by leveraging top-tier talent from the Global South.The company provides scalable, cost-effective solutions across threecore service areas: (1) Real-Time Support encompasses live chat, voice, and social media interactions, ensuring immediate customer engagement across multiple channels. (2) Inbox Support covers email management, ticketing systems, and back-office operations, providing comprehensive asynchronous customer service solutions. (3) Specialized Support addresses technical assistance, CRM management, and data-intensive roles, delivering expert-level service for complex customer needs.Hiretic's foundational philosophy centers on the belief that exceptional customer experience stems from people, not geographical boundaries. The company recruits and trains English-fluent, empathetic customer experience professionals from emerging markets who deliver support that maintains the quality and consistency of in-house operations. Whether partnering with startups experiencing rapid growth or enterprises seeking operational optimization, Hiretic offers flexible solutions designed to scale with business needs while representing each client's brand with precision and care. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Moment | Moment develops AI software for investment management and wealth management operations. The company provides tools for financial advisors and investment firms to manage portfolios, workflows, and investment processes. | $36M | Series B | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Remark | Remark is a product guidance startup for online stores that brings the in-store experience online. | $16M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Kalshi | Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific thanother instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade.Website: https://kalshi.com | $185M | Series C | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Aethero | Aethero enables satellites to deploy AI/ML applications on orbit with high-performance space computers. Their compute modules are equipped with the latest storage, processing, and connectivity capabilities to support reinforcement learning and in-space model training for missions such as such visual positioning, EO data processing, link budgetcalculation, autonomous operation, and more | $8.4M | Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Amperos Health | Amperos Health operates as an AI biller for healthcare providers. | $4.2M | Seed | Jun 04, 2025 |  |

10 of 129 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-innovation) — VC Fund, 125 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Neo invest in?

Neo invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 129 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 Neo?

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### Who are the partners at Neo?

The team at Neo includes Ali Partovi (Founder and CEO), Emily Cohen (Partner) and Evan Henshaw-Plath (CTO), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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