# Richard Socher

> Richard Socher is a seed investor at You.com backing Artificial Intelligence. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: You.com
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-socher-19363b18/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/RichardSocher
- Website: http://www.socher.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsocher

Richard Socher is a seed investor at You.com 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$10M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$30M |
| Series B | $15M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 60% |
| Software | 10 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 30% |
| Health Care | 5 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 25% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 45% |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 65% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmos Innovation | Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment. | $16.8M | Series A | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Ambience Healthcare | 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 AI | 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 |  |
| ZenML | https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Wispr Flow | Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $4.6M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Viva Translate | Viva Translate helps people around the world communicate in English, Spanish and Portuguese in real time. | $4M | Seed | Nov 20, 2021 |  |
| Omneky | Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Ellipsis Health | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AIX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aix-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greenoaks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenoaks-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hyphen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyphen-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About You.com

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

You.com is an AI-powered search and productivity platform that integrates conversational search, large language models, and specialized tools to provide users with contextual and personalized answers. The platform combines traditional search results with generative AI responses, allowing users to interact through natural language queries. It alsooffers task-oriented applications such as writing assistance, code generation, summarization, and content creation within the same interface. You.com emphasizes customization by enabling users to choose preferred sources and adjust their search experience according to their needs. The platform positions itself as both a search engine and an AI assistant, aiming to streamline workflows by combining browsing, research, and productivity features in one environment. Through its combination of AI-driven insights and integrated tools, You.com supports users across different tasks such as research, problem solving, and creative work.

5 contacts available at You.com.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Oliner | Field CTO | — |
| Alex Triplett | Chief Operating Officer | — |
| Bryan McCann | Cofounder | — |
| Jason Egnal | Chief Marketing Officer | — |
| Mariane Bekker | Head of Developer Relations | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Richard Socher invest in?

Richard Socher invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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.

### How do I contact Richard Socher?

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### When did Richard Socher last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Socher closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 20 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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