Meet The Team
Investment Partners
AIX Ventures Investment Partners are fully immersed in the AI Ecosystem
Richard Socher
Founder, You.com
AIX Co-Founder
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Angel investor in 30+ startups in the Al space.
LP in 16 funds.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Currently CEO of you.com - a next-gen search engine.
Former startup founder/CEO of Metamind with successful exit to Salesforce.
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
Former Adjunct Professor at Stanford Computer Science.
Top 5 most cited NLP researcher in the world.
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
Former Salesforce Chief Scientist for four years.
Built & led 520-person team of Al engineering, research, & product at Salesforce.
Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
Anthony Goldbloom
Founder, Kaggle
Prolific Angel Investor
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Investor in 50+ AI startups.
Notable investments include: Weights & Biases, Flatfile, Coiled, Roboflow, Prefect.
LP in two venture funds.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Founder and CEO of Kaggle, which used predictive modelling competitions to solve problems for organizations such as NASA, Ford, Deloitte, etc.
Kaggle became the world’s largest community of data scientists and was successfully acquired by Google in 2017.
Kaggle raised $16MM and included investors such as Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, and DCVC.
<span class=awards>AWARDS</span>
Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 in Technology
Christopher Manning
Stanford ML Professor
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).
Inaugural Thomas M. Siebal Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science at Standford University.
Associate Director of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI).
Leader in applying Deep Learning to Natural Language Processing.
Most cited NLP research in the world.
<span class=advisor>ADVISOR</span>
Eloquent Labs, Lilt, Forethought.ai
HQ Team
Shaun Johnson
AIX Co-Founder & General Partner
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Perplexity
Tollbit
Workhelix
Chroma
Tahoe Therapeutics<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
VP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Lilt
VP of Product & Design at NimbleRx
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
UC Berkeley MBA
Stanford University MSEE
UT Austin BSEE
Krish Ramadurai
Partner
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Partner at Harmonix Fund, focusing on life sciences, healthcare, and deep technology.
Sourced and led diligence on 30+ early-stage investments including notable companies such as Insilico Medicine (IPO), Bit.Bio, Caresyntax, Rad.AI, PathologyWatch (acquired), Volumetric Biotechnologies (acquired), and Trials.AI (acquired).
Held board positions for multiple companies including Sorcero, xCures, and Precipoint.
<span class=advisor>ADVISOR</span>
Nucleate
National Venture Capital Association
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
Researcher at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs & MIT.
Trained under Nobel Laureate Economist Michael Kremer on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Development Innovation Ventures Fund ($149M Fund; 5x ROI)
Guest lecturer in Tissue & Biochemical Engineering at Harvard University
Authored three books on applied engineering and medicine featured in Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Princeton library collections
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
Oxford University, DPhil & Masters, Engineering Science & Nanomedicine
Washington University in St. Louis, MBA
Harvard University, Masters, Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Integrative Biology & Economics, Chemistry Minor
Jason McBride
Partner
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Partner at M12 Venture Fund, focusing on the app layer and cyber security
Sourced or led diligence for over 15 early-stage investments including notable companies such as Mermaid Chart, Builder.io, Zenity.io, Solve Intelligence, Adventr, Rain, EarlyBird, HiddenLayer.
Previously worked as a scout for Lightspeed Venture Partners.
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
Partner (App Layer), M12 Venture Fund
Director of Partnerships, Microsoft
Founder, Docstur, Inc.
Scout, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Senior Product Manager, CLM (Callidus Cloud, SAP)
<span class=advisor>ADVISOR</span>
Adventr, Inc.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Founder of Docstur; an AI-powered document automation solution that streamlines the review of high-volume, low-touch contracts, including NDAs and Professional Services Agreements.
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
UCLA School of Law, JD
Stanford, Master of Arts in Policy Analysis
Stanford, Master of Arts in Sociology
Stanford, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Lucy Chong
Principal
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
F-Prime Capital
Fine Structure Ventures
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
CalTech Ph.D. Systems Biology
University of Pennsylvania Bachelors in Biology
Christina Sfakianos
Investor Relations
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
JPMorgan Chase & Company Institutional and Private Client relationship management
Lehman Brothers Institutional and Private Client relationship management
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
Loyola University Maryland
Sara Tatman
Senior EA & Ops
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
20+ years Founder and Operational Support
Companies ranged from series A-D
Verticals include: SaaS (Autopilot, Famous), e-Commerce (Minted), Telehealth (Platejoy), FinTech (Plaid)
Former Matchmaker - Specializing in human connection
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
California State University, Sacramento