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Founders we support
We partner with deeply technical founders building critical systems at the core of the AI stack. Engineers building tools they themselves rely on.
Founder spotlight
CuspAI
Max Welling, CTO and Chad Edwards, CEO
CuspAI is an AI-powered materials discovery platform that generates novel, synthesizable materials matching exact specifications, up to 10x faster than traditional methods. Materials science remains a critical bottleneck across climate tech, semiconductors, and energy. Co-founded by Max Welling, the team has the technical depth to move the needle and is already partnered with Hyundai, Meta, and Kemira on production use cases.
Companies and founders
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Co-Investor
The serverless platform for AI, data and ML teams
Modal
AI Infrastructure
Series B
New York, NY
Amplify Partners
AI video platform that unlocks the next generation of entertainment
Higgsfield AI
Application Layer
Series A
California, USA
Menlo Ventures
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Sector
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Stage
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Location
Co-Investor
The serverless platform for AI, data and ML teams
Modal
AI Infrastructure
Series B
New York, NY
Amplify Partners
MCP runtime for autonomous agents without technical overhead
Archestra AI
AI Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
London, UK
Concept
The first open source AI-native multimodal lakehouse
Lance DB
.avif)
AI Infrastructure
Series A
San Francisco, CA
Theory Ventures
Fast and minimal AI libraries to train and deploy models
Lightning AI
AI Infrastructure
Series A
New York, NY
Index
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Sector
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Stage
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Location
Co-Investor
AI video platform that unlocks the next generation of entertainment
Higgsfield AI
Application Layer
Series A
California, USA
Menlo Ventures
Deploy AI workers that grow your business
Continual
Application Layer
Series A
San Francisco, CA
Amplify Partners
Knowledge mapping for accurate queries
Datalinks
Application Layer
Series A
Zurich, Switzerland
Lucid Capital
AI automation for document-heavy workflows
Kolena
Application Layer
Series A
San Francisco, CA
SignalFire
Sector
Sector
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Stage
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Location
Co-Investor
The leading OSS tool for maintaining data quality
Great Expectations
Data & Analytics
Series B
San Francisco, CA
CRV
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Real-time SQL caching for Postgres and MySQL
Readyset
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Data & Analytics
Series A
Beverly Hills, CA
Index Ventures
BI-as-code platform for building dashboards fast
Rill Data
Data & Analytics
Seed
San Francisco, CA
True Ventures
Real-time analytics powered by Apache Pinot
Startree
Data & Analytics
Series B
Mountain View, CA
Bain Capital
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Sector
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Stage
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Location
Co-Investor
Ingelligent data extraction automation for documents
Base64
Developer Tools
Seed
New York, NY
Long Journey
Programming language that uses plain English to produce code
Codespeak
Developer Tools
Pre-Seed
London, UK
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.avif)
Product answer engine for full-text and vector searches
Orama
Developer Tools
Pre-Seed
San Francisco, CA
Village Global
Powering the end-to-end workflow for SAAS revenue
Orb
Developer Tools
Series B
San Francisco, CA
Menlo Ventures
