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.
Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross
Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross invest as NFDG, a San Francisco-based venture partnership founded in 2022 that backs frontier-AI companies and operates the AI Grant accelerator, which provides $250,000 in cash and $250,000 in Azure credits to AI-native startups. The pair also built the Andromeda Cluster, a multi-thousand-GPU H100 supercomputer for portfolio companies. Notable investments include Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity, Vercel, and Pulse. Recent activity: in 2025, Meta agreed to acquire a substantial portion of NFDG's holdings and hire both partners to lead its AI efforts.
Lux Capital
Frontier-tech and AI venture firm with investments in robotics, computational biology, and generative AI. Backed Anduril, Recursion, Hugging Face, Runway, and Strateos.
Conviction
AI-focused VC founded by Sarah Guo. Pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments in AI-native companies. Backed Mistral AI, Sierra, and Harvey.
Intel Capital
Intel's global venture arm investing in semiconductor, AI, autonomous, and 5G companies. One of the world's longest-running corporate venture programs.
J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners
J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners is the dedicated growth-equity vehicle within J.P. Morgan Asset Management, writing late-stage cheques into software, fintech, and AI infrastructure companies. The group sits adjacent to the bank's commercial and investment banking franchise, allowing portfolio companies to access debt facilities, IPO advisory, and treasury services as they scale. The team participated in ROGO's $160M Series D, a research-automation platform for financial-services firms, reflecting its focus on AI tools for regulated industries.
Jack Altman
Jack Altman is the co-founder and former CEO of Lattice, the people-management software company, and is the brother of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He invests as an angel and as a general partner of Alt Capital, his early-stage fund. Altman concentrates on founders building AI applications, vertical software, and consumer products, often writing first cheques alongside top-tier seed firms. He participated in ROGO's $160M Series D, the financial-research AI platform, alongside other operator-investors.
Meritech Capital Partners
Meritech Capital Partners is a Palo Alto-based late-stage growth firm founded in 1999, focused on Series C and later rounds and pre-IPO crossover investments. The partnership runs a deliberately small team and a concentrated book, with notable bets including Facebook, Salesforce, Snowflake, Datadog, and Crowdstrike. Meritech publishes widely-read public-comparable analyses for SaaS companies. Within the cohort, Meritech backed Avoca AI's $125M Series B, extending its long history of growth-stage software investing into voice-AI applications.
Alt Capital
Alt Capital is the early-stage venture firm founded by Jack Altman after stepping down as CEO of Lattice. The fund concentrates on seed and Series A rounds in AI applications, vertical software, and consumer products, leveraging Altman's operating background and his network across the Y Combinator and OpenAI orbit. Alt typically writes concentrated cheques and takes board seats. Recent activity includes participating in Avoca AI's $125M Series B, a voice-AI platform for the contact center.
Accenture Ventures
Accenture Ventures is the corporate investment arm of Accenture, taking minority stakes in enterprise software, generative AI, and cybersecurity startups whose technology Accenture's consulting practice can deploy across Fortune 500 clients. Through its Project Spotlight program, the group pairs portfolio companies with Accenture industry teams for joint go-to-market work rather than leading rounds. Recent AI investments span agentic platforms, vector search, and customer-experience automation, including a check into Netomi's $110M Series C alongside other strategic partners.
Mubadala Investment Co.
UAE sovereign wealth fund; AI focus via G42 + co-investments in Anthropic, Mistral.
Revolution
Revolution is a Washington, DC-based investment firm founded in 2005 by AOL co-founder Steve Case and Ted Leonsis. It runs three strategies: Rise of the Rest Seed, Revolution Ventures at the Series A and B stage, and Revolution Growth for later rounds. The firm is built on a thesis that high-quality companies are increasingly being founded outside Silicon Valley, with portfolio bets across the Midwest, Southeast, and DC corridor. Revolution participated in Kashable's $60M Series C.
EJF Ventures
EJF Ventures is the early-stage venture strategy of EJF Capital, the Arlington, Virginia-based asset manager founded by Manny Friedman and Neal Wilson. The fund concentrates on fintech, regtech, and financial-services infrastructure, drawing on EJF Capital's specialty in community banks and structured credit. EJF Ventures typically backs Series A and B rounds where its parent firm's regulatory and capital-markets expertise creates an edge. The team participated in Kashable's $60M Series C, a workplace lending platform for hourly employees.
Nimble Partners
Nimble Partners is an early-stage venture firm investing across enterprise software, deep tech, and applied AI, typically at the seed and Series A stages. The team writes concentrated cheques into companies tackling regulated or capital-intensive markets, from aviation autonomy to industrial automation. Within the cohort, Nimble participated in Reliable Robotics' $160M growth round, the autonomous-aircraft company building certified retrofit kits for cargo operations, reflecting the firm's appetite for hardware-software platforms in slow-moving industries.
Snowpoint Ventures
Snowpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida, founded in 2021. The firm manages over $500 million and focuses on dual-use companies at the intersection of national security, defense, and physical AI, including cybersecurity, robotics, aerospace, and energy. Notable portfolio companies include Shield AI, Gecko Robotics, Labelbox, Merlin, Red 6, Elroy Air, Moxion Power, and Candid Health. Co-founder Doug Philippone, formerly of Palantir, emphasizes human-in-the-loop AI for defense applications.
Franklin Templeton
Franklin Templeton is a global asset manager that invests in AI, fintech, and digital-asset startups through Franklin Venture Partners and Franklin Templeton Strategic Ventures. The firm participates in growth and venture rounds alongside its core public-markets business and operates a Silicon Valley FinTech Incubator. Notable AI-era investments include Sentient (open-source AGI), t54 Labs (AI agent trust infrastructure), and Plaid. Recent activity: leading Plaid's $575 million round at a $6.1 billion valuation in April 2025 and announcing a strategic investment in Sentient in July 2025.
Trinity Capital
Trinity Capital (NASDAQ: TRIN) is a publicly traded specialty lender providing venture debt and equipment financing to growth-stage, venture-backed companies. The firm structures loans that typically include interest payments plus equity warrants, offering non-dilutive growth capital across tech, life sciences, and fintech. Notable recent commitments include AI and embedded-credit infrastructure providers. Recent activity: a $15 million growth-capital facility to Lendflow in May 2025 to expand its AI-driven credit decisioning and underwriting platform for fintechs and vertical SaaS lenders.
Blackstone Life Sciences
Blackstone Life Sciences (BXLS) is the dedicated life-sciences investing platform of Blackstone, managing roughly $15 billion in assets as of Q4 2025. In March 2026 it closed Fund VI at a record $6.3 billion, the largest private life-sciences fund ever raised. The team finances late-stage drug and device development across biopharma and medtech. Notable transactions include Anthos Therapeutics (sold to Novartis for $3.1B in 2025), a $400M deal with Teva for duvakitug, and a $2B financing collaboration with Alnylam. Portfolio medicines include LEQVIO, AMVUTTRA, and IMBRUVICA.
Northzone
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm with offices in London, New York, Stockholm, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Founded in 1996, the firm manages over $3.1 billion across 13 funds and has backed more than 250 companies, including 18 unicorns. It invests primarily at seed and Series A. Notable investments include Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, Black Forest Labs, Genesis AI, CuspAI, and Tandem Health. Recent activity: leading Genesis AI's $105 million seed round in 2025 for foundational robotics models, and Series A rounds for CuspAI ($100M) and Tandem Health ($50M).
Anthology Fund
Kinship Ventures
True Ventures
San Francisco-based seed-stage firm founded 2005. Known for early bets on Fitbit, Peloton, Duo Security, and Ring, with concentrated checks across consumer, hardware, and AI.