Pieter Abbeel
Investing Partner @ AIX Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Pieter Abbeel is a seed investor at AIX Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machinelearning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter's work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Pieter Abbeel invests in
Stages Pieter Abbeel invests in
Countries Pieter Abbeel invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$98M
- Series A
- $16M–$83M
- Series B
- $30M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (59%)
- Machine Learning 7 (41%)
- Software 5 (29%)
- Generative AI 2 (12%)
- AI Infrastructure 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (41%)
- Series A 6 (35%)
- Series B 4 (24%)
Country
- United States 10 (59%)
- Canada 2 (12%)
- United Kingdom 2 (12%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Engram is an artificial intelligence startup building a persistent "learned memory layer" designed to help enterprise AI models deeply understand and retain an organization's specific context | $98M / Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Config develops data infrastructure services for robotics applications. | $27M / Seed / May 11, 2026 | ||
| Prompt AI offers a platform that enables users to convert visual data into a searchable database, allowing them to prototype visual AI solutions, share their workflows with the larger community, and ask questions about these events, transforming visual data into insights. | $5M / Seed / Sep 28, 2023 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Gantry is built on cloud-native technologies and designed to scale to terabytes of data. They are computed metrics about data quality, data drift, model performance, and user satisfaction. They are deploying machine learning models with confidence. | $23.9M / Series A / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| Ambience Healthcare develops an AI operating system used for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows in healthcare settings. The company builds an AI medical scribe that captures clinician-patient conversations in real time and converts them into clinical notes. Its scribe tool includes speech recognition, real-time documentation, and AIfeatures designed to integrate with electronic medical record systems. The tool generates notes within seconds and allows customization based on user preferences. | $30M / Series A / Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Bloom boosts e-commerce conversion rates by optimizing the merchant’s existing product content, showing the right photos to the right shopper based on the shopper’s device, location, and behavior. | $1.1M / Seed / Mar 07, 2022 | ||
| Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $124.9M / Series B / Feb 15, 2022 | ||
| Wayve develops autonomous driving technology using end-to-end deep learning models that enable vehicles to navigate complex urban environments. The company builds AI software that learns directly from data collected through cameras and sensors, reducing reliance on high-definition maps and rule-based systems. Its approach focuses on embodiedintelligence, where the system improves driving performance through large-scale real-world training and simulation. Wayve partners with automotive manufacturers and fleet operators to integrate its driving software into production vehicles. The platform is designed to adapt to different geographies and driving conditions through continuous learning and model refinement. | $200M / Series B / Jan 17, 2022 | ||
| https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml | $2.7M / Seed / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About AIX Ventures
AIX Ventures is an AI fund and seed stage venture capital firm partnering top AI startups and AI practitioners. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage companies, particularly in the Pre/Seed stages, to foster innovative AI-driven solutions.
AIX Ventures Contacts
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Anthony Goldbloom
Investing Partner
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Bianca Caban
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Christopher Manning
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Fang Yuan
General Partner
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Jason McBride
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FAQ
What does Pieter Abbeel invest in?
Pieter Abbeel invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Pieter Abbeel invest in?
Pieter Abbeel typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$98M at Seed, $16M–$83M at Series A and $30M–$200M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Pieter Abbeel's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Pieter Abbeel took part in.
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When did Pieter Abbeel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pieter Abbeel closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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