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Venture Investors

Profiles of the 32 venture investors who back AI companies, listed A–Z by last name.

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Ran Achituv
General Partner
Entrée Capital

He founded the Israel Defense Forces' satellite intelligence unit and later served as Amdocs's CTO, and now invests in deep tech at Entrée.

Ravi Adusumalli
Founder and Co-Managing Partner
Elevation Capital

Elevation's founder wants to build the firm Indian founders pick first for decades, and now backs companies later in their journey.

Mukul Arora
Co-Managing Partner
Elevation Capital

He walks into founder meetings without a fixed thesis, looking for customer-obsessed founders in Indian consumer tech, SaaS and AI.

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Eran Bielski
General Partner
Entrée Capital

He backs software teams that learn fast from customers, the trait he cited when Entrée led Chamelio's Series A.

Zachary Bogue
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
DCVC

He co-founded DCVC on the bet that systems thinking from environmental science plus deep tech can tackle urgent real-world problems, and still invests on it.

Zach Bratun-Glennon
General Partner
Gradient

He led acquisitions and strategic investments at Google Cloud, and now backs AI infrastructure and vertical software from Lambda to Nango.

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Navin Chaddha
Managing Partner
Mayfield

Mayfield's managing partner treats company building as a marathon, and is steering the firm's AI investing from a company's first day.

Joanne Chen
General Partner
Foundation Capital

She backs AI-first business applications from Jasper to Tennr, and has taken the case for AI in the enterprise to the TED stage.

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Avi Eyal
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Entrée Capital

He aims to be the first investor behind generational companies, the pattern behind his leads in monday.com, Riskified and Stripe.

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Julian von Fischer
General Partner
42CAP

A founder before he was an investor, he now backs European AI infrastructure such as Deepslate's voice models and Kontext's agent security.

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Ashu Garg
General Partner
Foundation Capital

An early investor in Databricks, Turing and Arize, he works with technical founders on finding product-market fit and growing into CEOs.

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James Hardiman
General Partner
DCVC

He backs AI that developers can build into real software, as in DCVC's lead on TypeSafe AI's seed round.

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Phil Inagaki
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer
Xora

A deep tech founder at 24, he now runs Xora's investing and its venture lab, backing AI infrastructure such as Celestial AI and HyperLight.

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Jonathan Lehr
Co-Founder and General Partner
Work-Bench

He grew New York's enterprise tech meetup into a community of more than 10,000 and backs AI, developer tool and infrastructure founders at seed.

Jessica Lin
Co-Founder and General Partner
Work-Bench

She leads Work-Bench's SaaS investing and built the #womenterprise community for women in enterprise tech.

Pavel Livshiz
General Partner
Hetz Ventures

He leads Hetz's cyber investing and has argued that the next Israeli cyber unicorn will be agentic.

Kent Lucas
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Non Sibi Ventures

He built Non Sibi's AI strategy around industrial markets, and backed Satlyt because its business grows with every satellite launched.

Steve Luczo
Co-Founder and Senior Partner
Crosspoint Capital Partners

He ran Seagate Technology through two long stints as chief executive, and brings that infrastructure operating record to Crosspoint's security investing.

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Matt MacKenzie
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Crosspoint Capital Partners

A lawyer turned operator, he ran legal, finance and staff work at the four companies Greg Clark led before they started Crosspoint together.

Alex Meyer
General Partner
42CAP

He went from eCircle's venture investor to its CFO, and brings that operator's view of scaling SaaS companies to 42CAP's seed rounds.

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Matthew Ocko
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
DCVC

He has been building technology since 1983, and steers DCVC's deep tech bets from quantum computing to applied AI.

Yoni Osherov
General Partner
Entrée Capital

He built monday.com's global revenue organization through its IPO, and now brings that go-to-market experience to Entrée's founders.

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Brian Schechter
Partner, Infrastructure
Primary Venture Partners

He bets on outsider founders taking first-principles swings at AI compute, and led seed rounds for Etched and TeRAM.

Darian Shirazi
General Partner
Gradient

A self-taught engineer who was among Facebook's first, he backs AI developer tools such as Mastra, Linkup and Photon at the earliest stage.

Sid Smith
Co-Founder and General Partner
Non Sibi Ventures

A securities lawyer and founder, he runs Non Sibi's business and compliance work after years as counsel to investors in diverse founders.

Ben Sun
Co-Founder, Partner and Co-CIO
Primary Venture Partners

A two-time founder, he backs consumer founders building AI-native products that people come to rely on every day.

Brad Svrluga
Managing Partner and Co-CIO
Primary Venture Partners

He backs founders using AI to cut costly, repeatable failures out of enterprise and industrial operations.

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Judah Taub
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Hetz Ventures

A former intelligence officer and hedge fund data chief, he argues that startups building around AI chip constraints will own the next decade.

Alan Thompson
Chief Executive Officer
Xora

A Temasek veteran who helped open its offices in Brazil and Mexico, he now runs Temasek's early-stage platform for AI and industrial companies.

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Steve Vassallo
General Partner
Foundation Capital

A former IDEO product designer, he backs product-minded founders and led Foundation's investments in Cerebras Systems, Stripe and Anomalo.

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Thomas Wilke
General Partner
42CAP

A co-founder of eCircle who later ran Teradata's Marketing Cloud unit, he now backs European B2B software founders at seed from Munich.

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Moritz Zimmermann
General Partner
42CAP

He co-founded Hybris and later ran product and engineering for SAP Customer Experience, and now brings that builder's view to 42CAP's seed bets.

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