AI startup investors.
VCs, angels, accelerators, and corporates actively backing AI — with portfolio links, round-by-round investment history, and news coverage. 2716 firms tracked.
Eclipse Ventures
Industrial-tech and physical-AI VC. Backed Bright Machines, Owl Labs, Augury, and Cerebras Systems. Focus on real-world manufacturing AI.
Altimeter Capital
Tech-focused growth investor with major AI bets including OpenAI, Snowflake, ServiceNow, and Cloudflare. Founded by Brad Gerstner.
BoxGroup
BoxGroup is a New York City seed-stage firm founded by David Tisch and Adam Rothenberg, known for high-conviction pre-seed and seed cheques across consumer, enterprise, fintech, and AI. The firm rarely leads but takes early concentrated positions and has backed Plaid, Warby Parker, Ramp, and Vercel from their first institutional rounds. Recent AI bets include ROGO, where BoxGroup participated in the $160M Series D for the financial-services research platform, and Avoca AI's $125M Series B.
Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Goldman Sachs Alternatives is the alternatives platform inside Goldman Sachs Asset Management, overseeing more than $500B across private equity, growth, credit, real estate, and infrastructure. The growth equity team writes large late-stage cheques into AI infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software, often structured as preferred equity or hybrid instruments. Within the AI cohort, the group backed Hightouch's $150M Series D and Kashable's $60M Series C, alongside its broader involvement in pre-IPO and crossover financings.
Iconiq Capital
Iconiq Capital began as a multi-family office for technology founders and has grown into a growth-equity platform managing over $80B. Iconiq Growth co-invests alongside firms like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz at Series C and beyond, with portfolio anchors including Snowflake, Datadog, Adyen, and Airbnb. The team brings unusually deep relationships across late-stage tech and an LP base of operating founders. Iconiq joined Hightouch's $150M Series D, expanding its footprint in the modern data stack.
Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners is a Sunnyvale-based seed and Series A firm specializing in technical infrastructure, devtools, data systems, and applied AI. The team backs companies built around hard engineering problems and was an early investor in Datadog, Fast.ai, MosaicML, and Modal. Amplify maintains a deliberately small partnership and concentrates capital across roughly twenty companies per fund. Within the cohort, Amplify backed Hightouch's $150M Series D and Avoca AI's $125M Series B.
Adobe Ventures
Adobe Ventures is Adobe's corporate investment fund, backing companies that extend the Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud ecosystems. The team writes minority cheques into generative media, content workflow, and martech startups, often pairing capital with API access, joint engineering, and Adobe Stock or Substance integrations. Investments tend to sit at Series B and later. Adobe Ventures participated in Netomi's $110M Series C, reflecting its push into customer-experience AI alongside its core focus on creative tooling and digital experience platforms.
Google Ventures
Google Ventures (GV) is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, founded in 2009 and based in Mountain View, California. The firm deploys approximately $1 billion annually across early- and growth-stage technology investments, with around half of 2025 commitments directed at AI. GV made 62 investments in 2025 and backs more than 50 AI-native companies. Notable AI portfolio companies include Harvey, Hebbia, Synthesia, Snorkel, SambaNova, Modular, Lightmatter, insitro, and Isomorphic Labs. Recent activity: follow-on backing of Harvey as it surpassed $100M ARR.
Parkway Venture Capital
New York-based growth firm founded 2017 by Greg Mauro. Known for concentrated late-stage AI and frontier-tech investments including OpenAI, Figure, Helion, and Skydio.
BlackRock
BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager and an active strategic investor in AI infrastructure companies.
SK Telecom
SK Telecom is a Korean telco and a strategic backer of AI-chip company Rebellions.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos invests personally and through Bezos Expeditions in frontier AI, robotics, and space companies.
General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a global growth investor active across late-stage AI and consumer tech.
Craft Ventures
Craft Ventures is a David Sacks-led firm investing in SaaS, marketplaces, and applied AI.
Alpha Wave Ventures
Alpha Wave Ventures is the venture arm of Alpha Wave Global, leading large growth rounds in deep tech.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is a veteran venture firm known for its cloud + SaaS leadership.
GIC
GIC is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund and a major late-stage tech crossover investor.
Emergence Capital
Emergence is an early-stage enterprise SaaS specialist with a long-standing AI thesis.
Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms makes strategic investments in AI data and infrastructure including its Scale AI partnership.
HongShan (formerly Sequoia China)
HongShan is a leading China-focused venture and growth fund, formerly Sequoia China.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Founded 1911. One of the longest-running firms. Backed Shopify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and dozens of cloud/AI leaders.
Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software-focused venture capital and private equity firm based in New York, founded in 1995. The firm closed Fund XIII at $12.5 billion in early 2025 and has deployed approximately $4 billion into AI companies over the past five years. Notable AI investments include Marketing Evolution, InstaLILY, Pasito, and Darwin AI. Recent activity: leading a $25 million Series A in InstaLILY for AI "teammates" in distribution, a $21 million Series A in Pasito for AI-native benefits administration, and a $15 million Series A in Darwin AI for government AI.
8VC
8VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, founded in 2015 by Joe Lonsdale and partners after spinning out of Formation 8. The firm manages over $6 billion in capital across funds focused on defense, logistics, healthcare, industrials, and AI, and in 2025 was raising a sixth flagship fund of nearly $1 billion. Notable investments include Palantir, Anduril, Addepar, and OpenGov. Recent activity: a 2025 partnership with Apollo Global Management to accelerate American industrial innovation and continued backing of dual-use AI and defense companies.
Amazon
Amazon is a US technology corporation headquartered in Seattle, founded in 1994, with a strategic AI investing program anchored by its Anthropic partnership. As of 2026, Amazon has committed up to $33 billion to Anthropic (an initial $8 billion plus an announced $25 billion expansion tied to AWS infrastructure milestones) and also committed up to $50 billion to OpenAI. Anthropic has agreed to spend over $100 billion on AWS over ten years. Recent activity: securing up to 5 GW of Trainium2/Trainium3 capacity for Claude training and inference.