# Oriol Vinyals

> Oriol Vinyals is a seed investor at Google DeepMind backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google DeepMind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepmind)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriol-vinyals-00b3366
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/oriolvinyalsml?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/oriolvinyalsml?lang=en

Oriol Vinyals is a seed investor at Google DeepMind in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Oriol Vinyals is the Principal Research Scientist at DeepMind. He attended University of California, Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 75% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Generative AI | 1 | 25% |
| Search Engine | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Spain | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alinia AI | Alinia AI is an alignment platform that allows enterprises to implement generative AI in a safe and controlled manner, governed by their rules and operations. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| Udio | Udio is an AI-powered music creation app that offers a platform for instant music creation. | $10M | Seed | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| V7 | V7 is a powerful AI training data platform that enables you to annotate images, videos, documents, and medical imaging files. It is the quickest way to obtain high-quality annotated data for training your computer vision models. You can utilize auto-labeling features to accelerate your annotation projects, manage your MLOps workflows, or hireprofessional annotators for assistance. With advanced auto-labeling, quality assurance (QA), and team collaboration tools, V7 will help you reduce your data annotation time by 10x and assist you in developing more accurate AI solutions. Annotate any dataset with ease and seamlessly integrate V7 into your training data management and model development pipeline. You can seamlessly integrate V7 with your existing tech stack and import/export annotations with ease. Additionally, V7 empowers you to have complete control over your models, tasks, and datasets through the open API, Darwin-py SDK, and CLI. | $33M | Series A | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| Perplexity | Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Air Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/air-street-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [K Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 1 deal 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 Oriol Vinyals invest in?

Oriol Vinyals invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Oriol Vinyals last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Oriol Vinyals closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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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