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The AI-focused fund built for and by the industry’s best.

Hugging Face - The AI community building the future | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Perplexity - Where knowledge begins | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Weights & Biases - A developer-first MLOps platform, built for practitioners by practitioners | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
You.com - Your Personalized AI Assistant | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Chroma - AI-native open-source embedding database | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Tollbit - Platform for scalable access to licensed data and content for training and on-demand usage | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Ambience - Using AI to transcribe doctor appointments | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund
Codeium - AI Coding Assistant | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund

 Investing Partners

Pieter Abbeel Headshot | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund

Pieter
Abbeel

Founder, Covariant
UC Berkeley, Professor

Anthony
Goldbloom

Founder, Kaggle
Prolific Angel Investor

Christopher Manning Headshot | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund

Christopher
Manning

Stanford University
ML Professor

Richard Socher Headshot | AIX Ventures - An AI Fund

Richard
Socher

Founder, You.com
AIX Co-Founder

  • "Anthony Goldbloom was my most helpful angel investor when I started Decision AI. He just started a VC fund (AIX Ventures) with Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, and Chris Manning. That’s a legit all-star lineup of AI. If I started something, those are the first investors I’d want.”

    Dan Becker, CEO Decision.ai

  • "From the very earliest days of the company — when we had nothing but a tech demo that was being worked on — Pieter has been a huge help. Starting then, Pieter became a great technical advisor, providing his expertise in AI/ML, as well as connecting us to other experts in the space when we had specific technical hurdles to overcome. As the company grew and we began to fundraise, Pieter proved to be a fantastic member of the team in more ways than one. He became an investor himself, provided assistance with the deck and story, and made introductions to other relevant investors. He is absolutely someone I would want in my corner on any future company.”

    James Sha, CTO Onyx.fit

  • “Pieter is the best connected investor and biggest thinking advisor you could ask for in your AI company. At every stage of our journey, Pieter has put us in touch with the biggest names in the ML and VC worlds and pushed us to make our pitch and vision more compelling and more ambitious. Working with Pieter will instantly make you stand out as a technical leader among the sea of companies rushing to capitalize on the AI wave.”

    Josh Tobin, Founder/CEO, Gantry

  • “HekmaCare is building AI-centric technologies to power self-guided medical devices and medical robotics. I am deeply honored to have Professor Pieter Abbeel on our technical advisory board. Pieter has been an invaluable addition, providing critical guidance and validating early concepts. His exceptional knowledge and expertise in AI and robotic learning are only matched by his professionalism, enthusiasm, and work ethic. Pieter always makes himself available, brings clarity, and conveys trust.”

    Wassim Haddad, Founder/CEO, Hekmacare

  • “Dr. Abbeel has been a super helpful advisor to Traptic over the past several years. He has been instrumental in making connections to a bunch of different folks, including potential future investors and technical experts. Most importantly, he is well respected, so his intros carry a great deal of weight. He also gives great advice on technical matters. He is knowledgeable on a wide variety of topics, which has helped allow us to quickly figure out where we want to focus our efforts and when we should change direction. I have been lucky to have Dr. Abbeel as an advisor and look forward to working with him for a long time to come!”

    Lewis Anderson, Founder/CEO, Traptic

  • "Pieter truly takes the time to understand the core needs of our business and enjoys double-clicking on our hardest technical challenges. He also has deep personal connections to ML leaders and has connected us to invaluable advisors, including Richard Socher and Serena Young. During our seed raise, Pieter helped us think through the ideal set of investors for us and actively made introductions to 10+ VCs and high-value add angels. These were very thoughtful, high-quality introductions, which directly led to our first term sheet."

    Michael Ng, Founder/CEO, Ambience Healthcare

  • “Pieter can help assess the technical challenges of an AI problem (in research or production) as well as anyone. However, what leaves me dumbfounded is his ability to encourage and energize those he mentors to unrelentingly make progress on long-term problems.”

    Ziang Xie, CEO, Sapling

  • “Richard was involved with Whisper before we had a name or a deck. He helped us refine our ML thesis, think through technical risks, and more than that — he was one of the defining factors in landing our first key hires and partners, and he hopped on the phone many times to help close crucial deals. He went above and beyond to help out, and I can truthfully say Whisper might not exist without him.”

    Dwight Crow, Co-Founder, WhisperAI

  • “Anthony has been a great support in building Weights & Biases (as an investor) and my previous company, Figure Eight (as an advisor). He’s helped with everything from product feedback to navigating Google Cloud and helping us think through how to get traction in the Kaggle community. Really appreciate my association with Anthony and look forward to it continuing long into the future.”

    Lukas Biewald, CEO, Weights & Biases

  • “Chris was a secret weapon for us as an angel investor, helping us pick the diamonds from the garbage in research ideas, saving us engineering effort on blind alleys, and keeping our tech ahead of our competition. I can’t state this strongly enough: we would not have been successful without having Chris as a mentor and a friend, and I’m incredibly grateful.”

    Keenon Werling, CEO, Eloquent Labs

  • “Pieter’s advice, introductions, and broad support of Cohere have been extremely helpful throughout our growth. Given his experience as both a founder and academic, Pieter is uniquely capable of diving into both complex technical topics as well as business-level advising.”

    Alan Johnson, CEO, Cohere

  • “Richard has been our first, and most valuable, angel investor. He has added value across every function: from recruiting, to fundraising, to mentorship, to brand building. His operational experience and network are second-to-none and he also happens to be a fantastic person that I look forward to calling a friend for a long time.”

    Ryan Alshak, CEO, Ping

  • “Anthony has been one of our most helpful investors. He’s been an incredible source of startup wisdom for us and has also made some valuable early customer and investor introductions. I would strongly recommend him for any data or AI/ML cap table.”

    Jeremy Stanley, CTO & Co-Founder, Anomalo

  • “It has been an absolute pleasure working with Dr. Chris Manning. He’s worked with our Machine Learning team regularly, helping us hone our research direction, experimentation, and ML-driven product insights. This has led to game-changing new models and product for Forethought’s core AI platform. And Chris’ support and reputation have helped us bring in some of the best talent in AI and NLP. We couldn’t be happier to have Chris as an advisor and angel investor at Forethought.”

    Deon Nicholas, CEO & Co-Founder, Forethought

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