AIX Ventures

Perplexity is AI for people who expect more. Our products serve those whose questions spark change and whose decisions bend the world toward progress. We obsess over the details so our users can obsess over what comes next.

Hugging Face is a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence, providing an extensive platform for building machine learning applications. It offers a variety of tools, including a model hub, datasets, and collaborative spaces, aimed at fostering community engagement and innovation in AI development.

Weights & Biases provides tools for tracking experiments, optimizing hyperparameters, and visualizing data in machine learning workflows.

You.com is the AI Search Infrastructure company for enterprises. We build the intellectual backbone that enables organizations to reason like experts, decide with confidence, and act at scale through intelligent agents and workflows. We deliver real-time, accurate, and citation-backed answers—enabled by our proprietary vertical-specific web indices, which integrate public and domain-specific data for the deepest, most relevant search experience available.

Chroma is a fast, serverless, and scalable search platform that supports vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search, built on object storage and trusted by millions of developers.

Ataraxis AI is a domain for sale, offering premium domain name purchase and leasing options.

Atmo is a leading company in AI-powered weather forecasting, utilizing deep learning to provide ultra-precise weather predictions and modifications. Their technology integrates data from various sources to deliver forecasts faster and with greater accuracy than traditional methods.

CodeReview.ai is a company that uses AI to analyze code reviews faster than humans.

Wispr is building a Voice OS that enables effortless voice dictation for various user types including leaders, developers, creators, and students.

Basis Set Ventures is a $140M+ seed fund that uses psychometrics and structured data to categorize founders into specific archetypes (like "humble operator" or "agile visionary"), then statistically models which personality patterns correlate with outlier outcomes—turning typical "gut feel" investing into a repeatable, data-informed process. The women-led firm runs a quantitative sourcing engine that tracks obscure signals like GitHub activity spikes and engineer departures from big tech to find "future of work" AI companies outside the usual Sand Hill Road network, positioning itself as the place where introverted, pragmatic operators can practice their pitch and get hands-on help with everything from go-to-market strategy to model-building.

AI-focused, Alphabet-backed investor offering longer timelines; ex‑Google technical partners provide hands-on model architecture and data‑pipeline support plus access to TensorFlow experts and research engineers.

Invests in very-early to early-stage AI startups, leveraging founders Layer 6 and Vector Institute ties including Geoffrey Hinton for deep access, and offers up to $250,000 in GPU credits. Founded by the entrepreneurs behind Layer 6 AI and co-founded the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence alongside Geoffrey Hinton, creating unusually deep roots in cutting-edge AI research. The firm has raised some of the worlds largest exclusively-AI early-stage funds (including a $650M fund) backed by major pension plans.

Air Street Capital is led by Nathan Benaich, a former computational cancer researcher who has been publishing AI research guides since 2015 and co-authoring the widely cited State of AI report since 2018, giving the fund unusually early visibility into cutting-edge AI research and industry shifts. The fund focuses exclusively on AI-first companies where the product would not function without AI, particularly in technically intense domains like defense, robotics, drug discovery, and AI infrastructure, while using its own press arm to conduct high-signal technical debates with frontier builders.