Radical Ventures
AI Agents · Venture Capital
60investments
1open role
3exits
$8.5Braised by its portfolio in 12 months
Overview
Radical Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to companies built on artificial intelligence. It invests from pre-seed to growth stage in AI-first businesses across sectors, with holdings that include language model developer Cohere and autonomous trucking company Waabi. The firm was founded in Toronto in 2017 by Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen and also operates from San Francisco and London.
Investor profile
Venture capitalInvestments
60
50 of them startups
Hiring now
47
1,435 open roles
Deals in 12 months
2
2 as the lead
Rounds in 12 months
25
$8.5B raised
Exits
3
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 75%Software 12%Health Care 10%Information Technology 6%Sales & Marketing 6%Biotechnology 6%Cybersecurity 4%Hardware 4%
Where its companies are
United States 55%Canada 17%United Kingdom 7%Finland 2%India 2%
Stage of its companies
Pre-seed & seed 40%Series A 20%Series B 20%Series C and later 20%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 60 investments
ServalSeries C $150M · this month · 66 roles
CyeraVenture round $400M · 1 mo ago · 240 roles
ManticSeed $25M · 1 mo ago · led a round · 1 role
CrusoeVenture round $3.9B · 1 mo ago · 277 roles
PixxelSeries C $100M · 2 mo ago · led a round · 1 role
Emerald AISeries A $150M · 2 mo ago · 6 roles
Muon SpaceSeries C $250M · 2 mo ago · 136 roles
EtchedVenture round $700M · 2 mo ago · 79 roles
Veeda AISeed $90M · 2 mo ago · 10 roles
Generalist AIVenture round $198.2M · 3 mo ago · 37 roles
P-1 AISeries A · 3 mo ago · 7 roles
First HandVenture round $10M · 4 mo ago · 2 roles
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Index Ventures 
Felicis 
Andreessen Horowitz 
Y Combinator 
Sequoia Capital 
avra 
Silicon Valley Investclub 
Toyota Ventures Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
South Park Commons
Scribble Ventures
Abstract Ventures
Khosla Ventures
AIX VenturesSources: its portfolio page, read Nov 8; 5 rounds in the press that name it
Jobs
≈ $62k – $119k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Toronto
Python
Go
Java
TypeScript
SQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Hugging Face
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
86 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▼
HR
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Radical Ventures over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
21
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Go
Java
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic
Hugging Face
OpenAI
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Developer tools
Docker
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Function Calling
Prompt Engineering
CI/CD
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News
Introducing Radical Breakouts Fund
L-R: Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi; Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; Jeff Dean, Co-founder and CEO of Discovery Loop; and Jordan Jacobs, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Radical Ventures. Last week we announced the first close of th
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Mantic raises $25M for superhuman forecasting led by Radical Ventures
London AI startup Mantic raised $25M in seed funding led by Radical Ventures to scale forecasting models that beat every human in the 2026
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Radical Ventures Secures More Than $1 Billion First Close For Late-Stage AI Breakouts Fund
Radical Ventures has secured more than $1 billion in commitments at the first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, launching what the AI-focused investment firm describes as the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.
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Radical Ventures Secures Over US$1B at First Close of Late-Stage AI Fund
Radical Ventures announced on September 15, 2026 the first close of the Radical Breakouts Fund, a new late-stage strategy that secured more than US$1 billion in commitments and that the firm describes as the largest-ever...
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What AI Has to Understand Before It Can Beat the Market
George Sivulka, CEO of Radical Ventures Portfolio company Hebbia, dives into why AI can beat us at chess and code but not at the stock market. George explores the current AI capability frontier and predicts which markets fall next. Below is an excerpt fro
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A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
This week, Radical Ventures portfolio company World Labs released Atlas, its next-generation world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas is a single model pretrained from scratch on text, images, video, and 3D. It combines every input into a shared spatia
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Generalist AI Ushers In The "GPT-3 Moment for Robotics"
Generalist AI is the first company to demonstrate clear scaling laws in robotics, with its GEN-1.5 model continuing to show smooth performance improvements after eight months of pretraining. Last week, Radical portfolio company Generalist AI released its
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Applying RSI to the Organization, Not Just the Model
Listen to this podcast on Spotify From our latest Radical Talks episode with Tantum Collins ("Teddy"), Co-Founder and CEO of Inherent Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is usually framed as a model problem: an AI system using AI to build better AI. Tantum C
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
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Toronto
Canada
HQ
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, HR
San Francisco
United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for HR