Richard Socher
Founder & Managing Director @ AIX Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Richard Socher is a seed investor at AIX Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Richard Socher is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the Co-founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously worked at Salesforce as a Chief Scientist and EVP. Richard Socher attended Stanford University. Richard Socher has received the best computer science PhD thesis award.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Richard Socher invests in
Stages Richard Socher invests in
Countries Richard Socher invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$10M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$30M
- Series B
- $15M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (62%)
- Software 10 (48%)
- Health Care 6 (29%)
- Machine Learning 6 (29%)
- Information Technology 5 (24%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (48%)
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 14 (67%)
- India 1 (5%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment. | $16.8M / Series A / Oct 16, 2023 | ||
| 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 | ||
| https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml | $2.7M / Seed / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $4.6M / Seed / Nov 30, 2021 | ||
| Viva Translate helps people around the world communicate in English, Spanish and Portuguese in real time. | $4M / Seed / Nov 20, 2021 | ||
| Sage provides 24/7 support and simplified healthcare navigation, guiding patients through complex healthcare processes with empathetic conversation. | $26M / Series A / Jun 15, 2021 | ||
| Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.The platform provides a free cross-platform experience for consumers. Its patented, AI-powered matching algorithm enables real-time discovery of new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental products, takingcomparison shopping to new heights. Price.com is available as a desktop and mobile website, browser extension, native app, and chatbot.RJ Rain founded Price.com in San Francisco, California in 2016. | $10M / Seed / Mar 31, 2021 | ||
| Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City. | $40M / Series B / Mar 11, 2021 | ||
| Weights & Biases offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. It helps companies turn deep learning research projects into deployed software by helping teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training and improving models. | $45M / Series B / Feb 01, 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
Principal
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Christopher Manning
General Partner
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Fang Yuan
General Partner
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Jason McBride
partner
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FAQ
What does Richard Socher invest in?
Richard Socher invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Richard Socher's check size?
Richard Socher typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$10M at Seed, $6.5M–$30M at Series A and $15M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Richard Socher participates in.
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When did Richard Socher last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Richard Socher closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 21 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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