AI Fund
San Francisco, CA · Invests in US; Asia; LATAM · Website
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Builds AI companies from inception alongside recruited CEOs, acting as an AI R&D studio that sources ideas with large corporates to deliver agentic-AI ventures with built-in customers and traction. Fund II focused on application and software infrastructure layers with emphasis on enterprise adoption and agent protocols.
Likely not a fit for
Companies without clear AI application, non-technical founding teams, or those that don't solve meaningful domain-specific problems
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Preferred
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $370M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
5 contacts on file
Portfolio
AI-Powered Skills Intelligence for Enterprise Workforces
Factored AI partners with businesses to provide elite engineers in AI, machine learning, data science, and data engineering, addressing the talent shortage in the U.S.
Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform that provides the tooling, expertise, and hardware necessary to rapidly bring AI products to market. Their proprietary Inference Stack combines performance research with reliable infrastructure, ensuring global availability and high uptime.
ValidMind is the AI governance platform for regulated industries. We can help your organization adopt AI quickly, safely, and with measurable ROI through centralized oversight, automation, and scalable risk operations.
Woebot is a mental health app that provides chat-based AI wellness tools to support users in managing their mental health. Founded by clinical research psychologist Dr. Alison Darcy, the company aims to make mental health support radically accessible.
Skyfire AI is a next-gen autonomous and swarming AI platform for drone systems in multiple domains. Offering a turnkey 'drone-as-a-service (DaaS)' platform, we leverage AI to enable highly effective, precise and efficient drone operations for law enforcement, fire, search-and-rescue / First Response, intelligence, defense and critical infrastructure.
SpeechLab provides AI-powered speech-to-speech translation and dubbing services, enabling effortless localization of content for global audiences.
Rypple is a Salesforce company specializing in AI-driven CRM solutions. It integrates various applications to provide a unified platform for sales, service, and customer care.
Recent activity
- Dec 2025
Multiple 2025 portfolio additions
Pre-Seed · Lead
AI Fund in the news
thebambooworks.com
Zhihu to invest $223 million in AI fund
6 hours ago
bloomingbit
Nvidia Makes M&A Overture to Rebellion, South Korean AI Chip Startup Championing 'AI Independence'
8 hours ago
fticommunications.com
FTI Consulting News Bytes – 4 September 2026
2 days ago
finance.yahoo.com
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI Fund Was Forced to Sell. Were Micron and SanDisk Wrong—or Just the Leverage?
4 days ago
Yellow.com
Grayscale Launches Decentralized AI Fund, Targeting Blockchain-AI Crossover
4 days ago
Bloomberg.com
AI Fund Chief Urges UK Government to Think Like an Investor to Boost Startups
5 days ago
finance.biggo.com
China's National AI Fund Invests 1.4 Billion Yuan in Kling, Valuing Kuaishou's Video AI Unit at Roughly Its Parent's Market Cap
6 days ago
TechNode
Kuaishou’s Kling AI brings in China AI fund with RMB1.4 billion investment
6 days ago
富途牛牛
Secured RMB 1.4 billion in funding from the National AI Fund and other investors; Keling's latest post-money valuation stands at RMB 122.8 billion, closing in on its parent company, Kuaishou.
6 days ago
app.dealroom.co
China's national AI fund backs Kuaishou's Kling in ¥1.53B raise
6 days ago
finance.yahoo.com
This AI Fund Is Crushing QQQ, and Nvidia Is Barely 2% of It
9 days ago
24/7 Wall St.
This AI Fund Is Crushing QQQ, and Nvidia Is Barely 2% of It
9 days ago
Bloomberg.com
DWS Shifts AI Fund Bets Into Hyperscalers From Chipmakers
10 days ago
WSJ
The Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’
12 days ago
The American Bazaar
Reach Capital closes $265 million fund to back AI startup founders
12 days ago
Futurism
Feds Investigating Wall Street Bro After His AI Hedge Fund Imploded Spectacularly
13 days ago
builtin.com
What Is a Sovereign Wealth Fund? Top Funds and the Growing Push to Invest in AI.
21 days ago
Electronics For You BUSINESS
Micron’s VC Arm to Launch a $250 Million AI Fund
21 days ago
techbuzz.ai
SignalPulse:
21 days ago
TradingView
Key facts: NVIDIA Corporation Leads $500B AI Fund; LG MoU for Robot
21 days ago
매일경제
Micron Launches 350 Billion Won AI Fund, Competing With Samsung and SK for Memory Ecosystem Leadership
22 days ago
simplywall.st
Is Micron Technology (MU) A Bargain On Its $250 Million AI Fund Launch?
23 days ago
Trend Hunter
Consumer AI Venture Funds
23 days ago
Yahoo Finance
Is Micron (MU) Using Its New AI Fund to Quietly Redefine Its Memory Strategy?
24 days ago
marketscreener.com
Micron Technology Launches $250 Million AI Fund
24 days ago
Alternatives Watch
K2 raises $200m AI fund; Cerberus to exit DefenseTech company
26 days ago
The Times
Nvidia teams up with Wall Street financiers to create $500bn AI fund
27 days ago
Investing.com
Vara hedge fund shares fall 44% in July on AI stock selloff - Bloomberg
27 days ago
Briefs Finance
AI Fund Doubles Down on Chip Startup Amid Volatility
27 days ago
Bloomberg.com
AI-Focused Hedge Fund VARA Drops 44% in July on Stock Plunge
27 days ago
Forbes
This AI Wunderkind’s Hedge Fund Crashed, Putting This Dividend On Sale
1 month ago
AOL.com
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge-fund implosion offers 3 investing lessons for everyone
1 month ago
Trend Hunter
AI Startup Support Programs
1 month ago
finance.biggo.com
The Week: The $45 Billion AI Fund That Imploded|The Prof G Pod
1 month ago
Dealroom
Integris launches $100K AI fund to build client-sourced software tools
1 month ago
New York Post
Tech bro makes drastic honeymoon decision after $45B AI fund collapse as lavish lifestyle revealed
1 month ago
International Business Times
Suzuki invests in San Francisco AI fund A.Capital Fund V
1 month ago
Tech Funding News
Sequoia doubles down on AI with $10B fund under new leadership
1 month ago
Tech Funding News
Yann LeCun joins new $100M AI fund, weeks after his last one lasted 8 hours
1 month ago
Briefs Finance
Citadel's Strong July Followed a Distressed AI Fund's Liquidation
1 month ago
Bybit
American AI Fund (AAIF) Price Prediction 2026-2031
1 month ago
Tech in Asia
Moonshot backer Monolith targets $500m China AI fund
1 month ago
Yellow.com
Grayscale Rebalances Multi-Asset Funds For Q2 2026, Drops NEAR And Adds SUI
1 month ago
The Next Web
Yann LeCun's second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini's co-lead as a partner
1 month ago
Benzinga
Novogratz Calls Aschenbrenner's AI Fund Collapse the 'Most Catastrophic Hedge Fund Blowup of Our Careers'
1 month ago
Business Insider
What Leopold Aschenbrenner can learn from Warren Buffett after his $45 billion AI fund imploded
1 month ago
Study International
How an Indian engineer built an AI career in Silicon Valley
1 month ago
Digital Watch Observatory
UK Sovereign AI fund invests in inference chip developer OLIX
1 month ago
Benzinga
Ross Gerber Says Leopold Aschenbrenner AI Fund Collapse Offers A Lesson - Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)
1 month ago
Yahoo Finance
Ross Gerber Invokes the Tortoise and the Hare to Explain Difference Between Investing and Betting Amid AI Fund Collapse: 'It Is About Understanding Risk'
1 month ago
The Motley Fool
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI Hedge Fund Just Blew Up, and It Highlights an Endemic Problem for Wall Street
1 month ago
CryptoRank
The sudden collapse of a $20 billion AI fund reveals why Bitcoin is the first thing Wall Street sells when margin calls hit
1 month ago
GuruFocus
AI Fund Faces 67% Drawdown Amid Market Turmoil
1 month ago
GuruFocus
AI Fund Faces 67% Drawdown Amid Market Turmoil
1 month ago
Ticker News
“WARNING SIGN”: A $45 billion AI fund collapse exposes growing risks
1 month ago
TechNode
Embodied-AI startup PaXini raises RMB1 billion to scale tactile-sensing technology
1 month ago
Yahoo Finance
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $20 Billion AI Hedge Fund Imploded. Here’s How It’s Still Up 80% This Year
1 month ago
Cryptonews.net
The sudden collapse of a $20 billion AI fund reveals why Bitcoin is the first thing Wall Street sells when margin calls hit
1 month ago
New York Post
Tech bro’s $45 billion AI fund collapses days before lavish California wedding
1 month ago
Yahoo Finance
Citadel Buys AI Fund Situational Awareness' Portfolio After Forced Unwind: Ross Gerber Says 'Leverage Will Kill and Bury You'
1 month ago
Chosunbiz
Citadel buys $16b SA portfolio as leveraged AI fund unravels - CHOSUNBIZ
1 month ago
The New York Times
Inside the Meltdown of a Wunderkind’s A.I. Hedge Fund
1 month ago
Seeking Alpha
'We let you down': Leopold Aschenbrenner's mea culpa to fund investors after near-collapse (AIQ:NASDAQ)
1 month ago
Quiver Quantitative
A $45B AI Fund Blew Up. Here's What Was Inside.
1 month ago
WSJ
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
1 month ago
eciks.org
Aschenbrenner’s AI fund forced to sell all stocks after steep losses
1 month ago
The Tech Buzz
Ex-OpenAI researcher's $45B AI fund collapses in days
1 month ago
South China Morning Post
Sudden US AI fund sell-off serves as wake-up call for Chinese tech traders
1 month ago
South China Morning Post
Sudden US AI fund sell-off serves as wake-up call for Chinese tech traders
1 month ago
moneyshow.com
(07/31/26) Market Minute 7/31/26: Tech Earnings, AI Fund Fiasco in Focus
1 month ago
The Neuron
Leopold’s $20B AI Fund Hit the Leverage Wall
1 month ago
TradingKey
Former OpenAI Researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI Fund Liquidation: How Leverage Amplified the Crisis?
1 month ago
Briefs Finance
Trouble for Leopold Aschenbrenner: $24 Billion AI Fund Unwinds After Four Stakes Drop Sharply
1 month ago
Moomoo
From 2000% to Margin Call: What the AI Fund Blowup Reveals About Leverage
1 month ago
Bloomberg.com
Watch AI Hedge Fund Collapses as Earnings Hit Tech Giants | Bloomberg Businessweek 7/31/2026
1 month ago
Tech Times
Citadel Buys Situational Awareness Portfolio as 4x Leverage Ends AI Fund’s 1,000% Run
1 month ago
Yahoo Finance
AI-focused hedge fund sells all of its stocks
1 month ago
CNBC
AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
1 month ago
finance.yahoo.com
Guardian Capital LP Launches Innovative AI Fund
1 month ago
AlleyWatch
The 19 Largest Global Startup Funding Rounds of June 2026
1 month ago
CoinMarketCap
TRON DAO Scales AI Fund to $1B to Back Agentic Economy Infrastructure
1 month ago
nibusinessinfo.co.uk
UK Sovereign AI Fund: Northern Ireland launch
1 month ago
Outlook Respawn
South Korea Launches $102M State Fund for AI and Cultural Exports | Outlook Respawn
1 month ago
Infrastructure Investor
Temasek plans significant increase in AI-related exposure
1 month ago
Johnson & Johnson
AI Surgery Innovations: 2026 Polyphonic Fund Awardees
1 month ago
quasa.io
Greylock Fund 18: What the $1.5B AI Fund Signals
1 month ago
Telecompaper
JA Mitsui Leasing invests in NTT-led IOWN AI fund
1 month ago
The Guardian
Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
1 month ago
StartupHub.ai
Greylock Bets $1.5B on the Next AI Wave
1 month ago
Startup Fortune
Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on CuspAI
1 month ago
The Telegraph
Labour’s AI fund to back £1.9bn start-up CuspAI
1 month ago
Infrastructure Investor
The Pipeline: EQT secures $9.4bn for AI fund, GIP’s record busy year, IFM’s $2bn value-add target
1 month ago
Reuters
China's DeepSeek to raise fresh capital at $74 billion valuation ahead of onshore IPO, sources say
1 month ago
calcalistech.com
Sequoia leads $45 million bet on Israeli entrepreneur building the next generation of AI employees
1 month ago
CNBC
Majority of U.S. workers support an AI wealth fund as tech layoffs surge, survey finds
1 month ago
AltAssets Private Equity News
Facebook co-founder’s B Capital hits $500m hard cap for third early-stage AI fund
2 months ago
CoinDesk
Crypto VC Paradigm launches $1.2 billion AI fund as it broadens beyond digital assets
2 months ago
Forbes
MGX's $49B AI Fund vs HUMAIN, Qai, GIC: Four Sovereign Bets
2 months ago
Yahoo Finance
Abu Dhabi's MGX closes $49 billion AI fund above target
2 months ago
With Intelligence
Focus on AI companies fuels fastest-growing hedge fund managers in industry’s history
2 months ago
calcalistech.com
Merav Bahat raising $25-30 million AI fund with Assaf Rappaport, Sequoia, Greylock and a16z
2 months ago
Reuters
Publicis chief urges France, Germany to lead European AI fund
2 months ago
group.ntt
Establishment of the "IOWN AI Fund" to Bring Global Innovation Together and Build the IOWN Ecosystem
2 months ago
Business Wire
Opto Investments Closes AI Fund Focused on Next-Gen Innovation
3 months ago
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