AIX Ventures
Artificial Intelligence · Venture Capital
72investments
7exits
$585Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
507open roles in its portfolio
Overview
AIX Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in artificial intelligence startups. It partners with founders building AI-native products and infrastructure, pairing capital with hands-on help from a partner group made up of well-known AI researchers and practitioners. The firm was founded in 2021 in Palo Alto, California, with partners including Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel and Christopher Manning alongside investor Shaun Johnson.
Investor profile
Venture capitalInvestments
72
59 of them startups
Hiring now
25
507 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
5
$585M raised
Exits
7
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 65%Health Care 15%Software 15%Biotechnology 10%Data & Analytics 6%Internet Services 6%Information Technology 4%Science & Engineering 4%
Where its companies are
United States 51%Germany 3%Canada 1%Switzerland 1%Sweden 1%United Kingdom 1%
Stage of its companies
Series A 33%Series C and later 23%Pre-seed & seed 23%Series B 21%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 72 investments
LovableVenture round $382.5M · 3 mo ago · 72 roles
CommureVenture round $70M · 5 mo ago · 68 roles
BranchLabSeries A $26M · 6 mo ago · 11 roles
Hyper NaturalVenture round $500k · 10 mo ago
ProfluentVenture round $106M · 11 mo ago · 13 roles
SumbleVenture round $38.5M · 12 mo ago · 8 roles
Reflection AISeries B $2B · 13 mo ago · 44 roles
Moonlake AISeed $28M · 13 mo ago · 9 roles
Alignmt AISeed $6.5M · 14 mo ago
CoverflowVenture round $4.8M · 15 mo ago
Ambience HealthcareVenture round $140M · 16 mo ago · 13 roles
Perplexity AISeries D $500M · 16 mo ago · 135 roles
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 
Plug and Play 
Coatue 
Sequoia Capital 
Andreessen Horowitz 
NEA 
avra 
Menlo Ventures 
GV 
Silicon Valley Investclub Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Khosla Ventures
Felicis
SV Angel
Scribble Ventures
Abstract Ventures
Lux CapitalSources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3; 1 rounds in the press that name it
Financials
Total raised
$202M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $202M | Details |
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News
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Startup Illoca Brings Tracing Paper Feel to BIM/CAD Design
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Moonlake: Causal World Models should be Multimodal, Interactive, and Efficient - with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
We cap out our World Models coverage with one of the most exciting new approaches - long running, multiplayer, interactive world models built with agents bootstrapped from game engines!
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The AI Power List: The most influential people in artificial intelligence
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Working 3 Jobs at Harvard: How Desperation Built Conviction Krish Ramadurai (1/4)
Part 1 of 4 of our series with Krish Ramadurai, Partner at AIX Ventures. Host Jon Chee sits down with Krish to hear about his childhood interest in science, his
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Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence
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Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring
Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
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Trump's tariffs could have major ripple effects on startups and venture capital
Investors are telling startups to batten down the hatches after Trump's latest tariffs to counteract potential cost hikes and funding freezes.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Palo Alto
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff