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AI Fund stages, portfolio and investment profile

Andrew Ng's Palo Alto venture studio co-founding AI companies alongside recruited CEOs, backed by $370M+ in committed capital.

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Stage-based planning range

$250K–$3M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

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Investment stages

Leads: Seed

Participates: Seed, Series A

Sector focus

AI & Machine Learning

Geography

Palo Alto, CA

Founded 2018

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

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Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Together AI

Series C-scale · $800M · 2026

Rounds they lead

Seed

Rounds they invest

Seed Series A

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list AI Fund as an investor (1 total).

Together AI Neocloud GPU platform for production AI training and open-model inference.

FAQs about AI Fund

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

AI Fund is a venture studio, not a traditional passive VC. It co-founds companies at pre-seed and seed, providing initial capital and operating support, with selective Series A follow-ons for portfolio companies with traction.

For portfolio companies AI Fund co-creates, initial capital is typically in the roughly $500K–$3M range at seed, with capacity for larger follow-ons from its $190M Fund II (closed May 2025). Studio economics differ from standard venture checks.

AI Fund is based in Palo Alto, California. The studio collaborates with corporate partners globally — including AES, HP, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi — to source domain-specific AI opportunities.

AI Fund builds application-layer and infrastructure AI companies, often in enterprise, healthcare, logistics, and compliance domains. The thesis pairs Andrew Ng's AI expertise with recruited CEOs and corporate partners for built-in customer insight.

AI Fund typically acts as founding investor and operating partner in companies it co-creates, rather than competing to lead outside rounds. External syndicate partners like Sequoia and NEA have co-invested in Fund II.

In our directory, AI Fund is linked to Together AI (/startup/together-ai). The studio reports 35+ co-founded portfolio companies overall, many not yet in our directory.

AI Fund recruits CEOs and technical co-founders to build new companies rather than primarily reviewing inbound pitch decks. Operators with deep domain expertise in AI-applicable industries should explore studio opportunities via aifund.ai.

See our Together AI profile (/startup-profile-together-ai) and the July 2026 global VC roundup (/2026-july-2026-global-vc-news-roundup-ai-fund-closes), which covers AI Fund's Fund II close and AI infrastructure financing.

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