AI funds

Technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies. 8VC partners with elite founders to build transformational technologies that create long-term economic and societal value.

Invests in AI-first technology and life science companies as early as possible and enjoy iterating through product, market, and technology strategy from day 1.

Seed stage venture firm led by the world's foremost thought leaders in AI with a mission to fund generations of AI-focused entrepreneurs. They invest in companies where AI is a core component and are looking for an amazing founding team who has insight on how to disrupt an industry with signs of product-market fit for their initial product, including revenue traction.

Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

Invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.

$50M seed-stage operator fund led by Raymond Tonsing. Thesis and stage agnostic firm. They typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.

Data infra and dev tools specialist fund who believes that they only succeed when they make a difference.

AI researchers investing in AI, deeptech, robotics, and future of work.

VC for AI-Native Startups. They help technical founders turn machine-learning models into market-leading companies.

Google's AI-focused early-stage venture fund.

Venture arm of OpenAI. Also runs Converge: a highly selective, five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries.

Invests in early-stage technology companies that fundamentally transform the way people work. They believe artificial intelligence delivers core value by improving productivity for all parts of the economy; from factories to offices.

AI-focused venture capital firm purpose-built for Software 3.0 founded by Sarah Guo.

Founders Jonathan and Kent combine their different perspectives not just as entrepreneurs, operators, and angel investors, but also as advisors to both startups and funds, mentors, LPs in venture funds, co-founders of one of SF’s favorite communities for startups and investors, and host of one of Silicon Valley’s top business podcasts.

$500 million seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

SF-based hard tech seed fund managing $300M+ AUM. As engineers themselves, they specialize in leading initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities. With a selective few new deals a year and 2/3 of their funds in reserve, they are committed to being a long-term partner, supporting each funding round and bridging any gaps in between.

Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.

OSS Capital globally invests exclusively in early-stage COSS (commercial open-source software) startup companies.

Fund established by operators for operators.

Heavybit is an early-stage venture capital firm and the premiere investor in developer-first startups. Since 2013, they’ve worked with numerous Pre-Seed to Series A companies that have redefined how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale mission-critical software.

Heavybit offers team-based structured support and a platform tailored to your specific needs that incorporates their unique partnership, an active community of 600+ domain specific advisors, and fellow Heavybit startup founders.

To learn more: https://www.heavybit.com/faq

Global venture capital firm focused on multi-stage, sector-focused investments. Recognizing that the talent to build great companies can come from anywhere, the firm invests in founders building category-leading companies around the world. Founded in 2000 with roots in Singapore and Silicon Valley, GGV has expanded with additional offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Beijing.

Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.

Partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights—before traditional venture firms are willing.

Helps their founders build a generational company by adding incredible connections, experience, sleeve-rolled up help, and a human touch. They are looking for founders who have a unique insight into a problem, are targeting a large and growing market, are obsessed with building an outstanding product and customer experience, and have a plan to execute on their opportunity.

Founded in 2012 from NYC, LDV Capital Invests in people building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack.  

Bloomberg's early-stage venture fund investing in startups focusing on machine learning.

Partners with entrepreneurs solving real-world problems using data and machine learning, focusing on applications of frontier technologies such as AI, computational biotech, connected sensors, AR/VR, and blockchain.

Pre-seed venture capital fund focused on the automation of manual processes in legacy industries. Story invests across the data stack, with a focus on data capture, data aggregation, and data application (i.e. machine learning).

Founded by Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.

Funds founders solving impactful problems in forgotten industries using revolutionary technology.

No project is too early for Wing. They invest early, before it's obvious, often before product or revenue. They also put substantial capital and strategic resources into each company throughout its lifecycle.

Pebblebed invests in early-stage companies with profound technical insight as its differentiator. They like to back businesses that build long-term moats, like end-user stickiness, brand, or high switching costs.

Enterprise-focused seed & early stage venture capital investment firm.

Seed-stage investment firm focused on exceptional founders building machine intelligence and data companies.

Focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. Founded by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko.

Backs entrepreneurs who are a lot like them: hungry, thoughtful, tenacious, and looking to solve big problems. They specialize in enterprise and fintech, and that focus has given them experience and expertise to be exceptionally helpful to founders building in those markets.

Partnership and distributed network that is agile, diversified, and market-tested led by Hank Vigil. They are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost

Supports seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with unique ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries.

Correlation Ventures is a new breed of venture capital firm, leveraging world-class analytics to offer entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists a dramatically better option when they are seeking additional capital to complete a financing round. Backed by leading institutional investors, Correlation has more than $450+ million under management.

Simpler.
They make investment decisions in two weeks or less. They don’t take board seats, and they are flexible on investment size.

Bottom line: Correlation Ventures provides fast and reliable access to venture capital so teams can spend less time fundraising and more time building their businesses.

They do not invest in tobacco, cannabis, firearms, real property holding companies, and oil and gas companies.

Forged in 2015 as the private investment arm of the multi-billion dollar hedge fund, Maverick Capital, Maverick Ventures backs early-stage healthcare and technology-driven businesses through an evergreen fund structure.

Dropbox Ventures is the venture capital arm of cloud storage company, Dropbox. It is a $50 million venture fund focused on startups in the AI space.

They are more than just a funding program—it’s a strategic partnership. Dropbox Ventures will work closely with our portfolio companies, providing mentorship and potential exposure to over 700 million registered Dropbox users who can benefit from their product.

Dropbox Ventures is looking for founders w/ a track record of success and innovation, building unique AI-powered apps and experiences that can transform how we work.