Conviction

Artificial Intelligence · Venture Capital
$7.3Braised by its portfolio in 12 months
1,199open roles in its portfolio
27investments
2022founded

Overview

Conviction is a venture capital firm dedicated to AI-native software companies at the seed and Series A stages. It invests in foundation model tooling, AI infrastructure and applications that apply machine learning to large markets, and it also runs programs for very early founders. The firm was founded in 2022 by Sarah Guo, formerly a general partner at Greylock, and is based in San Francisco.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
27
23 of them startups
Hiring now
22
1,199 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
Rounds in 12 months
13
$7.3B raised
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 74%Health Care 13%Cybersecurity 9%Software 9%Robotics 9%Education 4%Science & Engineering 4%Consumer Electronics 4%
Where its companies are
United States 78%France 4%Israel 4%
Stage of its companies
Series C and later 38%Series B 31%Series A 19%Pre-seed & seed 13%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 27 investments
InstinctSeries C $1B · 1 mo ago OpenEvidenceVenture round $250M · 1 mo ago · 6 roles CorridorVenture round $25M · 1 mo ago · 7 roles Mistral AIVenture round $3.5B · 2 mo ago · 236 roles KeenableSeed $26M · 2 mo ago · 4 roles OnyxSeries B $113M · 3 mo ago · 14 roles BasetenSeries F $1.5B · 4 mo ago · 103 roles TrajectoryVenture round $15M · 5 mo ago · 8 roles Listen LabsSeries B $69M · 9 mo ago HarveyVenture round $160M · 11 mo ago · 373 roles SierraVenture round $350M · 14 mo ago · 160 roles CognitionVenture round $1.6M · 14 mo ago · 105 roles
1,199 open roles at 22 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Harvey140 new roles in 30 days Mistral AI62 new roles in 30 days Sierra41 new roles in 30 days Baseten26 new roles in 30 days Cognition14 new roles in 30 days Onyx7 new roles in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
Watneyadded Nov 3 · 24 roles Quadrillion Labs, Inc.added Nov 3 · 6 roles Enigmaadded Nov 3
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Silicon Valley Investclub 7 shared Sequoia Capital 7 shared Kleiner Perkins 6 shared avra 5 shared Andreessen Horowitz 5 shared ValueAdd VC 5 shared General Catalyst 4 shared Index Ventures 4 shared Coatue 4 shared Lightspeed Venture Partners 4 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
SV Angel Khosla Ventures Multimodal Ventures Sequoia Capital Felicis Scribble Ventures avra Andreessen Horowitz
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3; 2 rounds in the press that name it

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ