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AIX Ventures

AIX Ventures, based in California, backs generalist startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A, writing $1-10M checks and can lead rounds, with notable investments like Hugging Face and Perplexity.

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Entry stagePre-seed, Seed, Series A
Check size$1M to $10M
Leads roundsYes
FocusGeneralist
Latest fund$202M (latest fund) (2024)
Investing team6 peopleNo activity since Sep

Who you would pitch at AIX Ventures

6 people on the investing team, 6 of them partners who can make the call. Partners are listed first.

Christopher Manning
Christopher ManningGeneral PartnerHe previously led the Stanford AI Lab and founded the Stanford NLP Group.
Richard Socher
Richard SocherCo-Founder & Managing PartnerHe is also the CEO and co-founder of Recursive and you.com.
Anthony Goldbloom
Anthony GoldbloomInvestment PartnerHe founded Kaggle and co-founded Sumble.
Krish Ramadurai
Krish RamaduraiPartnerHe focuses on AI-enabled healthcare, life sciences, and predictive in silico modeling.
Nick Crance
Nick CrancePartnerHe serves as one of the firm's sector partners.
Jason McBridePartnerFocus: AI applications.

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Writes $1M to $10M checks. Its smallest check is larger than 83% of firms in the atlas.

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No recent activity since September 2026. Quiet does not mean closed.

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Notable investments

Hugging FacePerplexityWeights & BiasesReflectionYou.comLovableCommureAmbienceRecursiveMachina Labs

In their words

AIX Ventures - The AI-focused fund built for and by the industry’s bestAIX Ventures is an AI fund and seed stage venture capital firm partnering top AI startups and AI practitioners.www.aixventures.com
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Firms like AIX Ventures

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First Round Capital$1M to $10M · active Oct 7
Initialized Capital$1M to $10M · active Sep 23

On these lists

Seed investors in United States2836Series A investors in United States1790Pre-seed investors in United States1561Seed investors in California699Series A investors in California480Pre-seed investors in California434Seed investors3020Series A investors1867

Questions

What stage does AIX Ventures invest in?

AIX Ventures reports entry at pre-seed, seed, series a.

How much does AIX Ventures invest?

AIX Ventures reports checks of $1M to $10M.

Does AIX Ventures lead rounds?

Yes. AIX Ventures says it can lead.

Who are the partners at AIX Ventures?

Christopher Manning (General Partner), Richard Socher (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Anthony Goldbloom (Investment Partner), Krish Ramadurai (Partner), Nick Crance (Partner), Jason McBride (Partner).

Is AIX Ventures active right now?

No recent activity since September 2026.

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