AI Fund

AI Fund is a venture studio firm based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2017. The firm focuses on accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence by partnering with entrepreneurs during the critical early stages of their startups. AI Fund offers extensive support in refining business strategies, product development, and market positioning, recognizing the challenges faced by new companies with limited resources. By providing expertise and resources, AI Fund aims to enhance the strategic decisions that can significantly impact a startup's success or failure. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as human capital, health and wellness, next-generation enterprise solutions, and machine learning operations, emphasizing seed and pre-seed stages to foster innovation across the United States.

Warren Packard

Operating Partner

49 past transactions

Gaia Dynamics

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Gaia Dynamics is a technology company that specializes in streamlining global trade processes. It develops an advanced AI-driven platform designed to simplify tariff classification, regulatory compliance, and supply chain optimization. This platform empowers customs brokers, consultants, and brands to navigate complex global trade procedures more efficiently, reducing costs and minimizing regulatory risks.

Affineon

Seed Round in 2025
Affineon is a healthcare technology company that specializes in AI-driven inbox management. It automates the processing of routine and clinically insignificant lab results, reducing the workload for healthcare providers. The platform groups, analyzes, and trends lab results into concise summaries, including potential next steps and complete patient notes. It also routes non-urgent messages to staff, decreasing the number of messages providers need to attend to by up to 30%. This results in significant time savings, with providers gaining over five hours per week. Affineon seamlessly integrates with existing electronic health records (EHR) systems, ensuring providers can continue using their current workflows.

Jivi

Seed Round in 2024
Jivi AI is a healthcare technology company developing a platform to transform primary care, making it more accessible globally and suitable for diverse populations.

Affineon

Seed Round in 2024
Affineon is a healthcare technology company that specializes in AI-driven inbox management. It automates the processing of routine and clinically insignificant lab results, reducing the workload for healthcare providers. The platform groups, analyzes, and trends lab results into concise summaries, including potential next steps and complete patient notes. It also routes non-urgent messages to staff, decreasing the number of messages providers need to attend to by up to 30%. This results in significant time savings, with providers gaining over five hours per week. Affineon seamlessly integrates with existing electronic health records (EHR) systems, ensuring providers can continue using their current workflows.

Credo AI

Series B in 2024
Credo AI is focused on enabling enterprises to responsibly develop, adopt, and utilize artificial intelligence at scale. The company offers an AI governance platform that automates oversight and risk management, ensuring compliance with emerging global standards such as the EU AI Act and NIST. Founded in 2020, Credo AI's platform supports organizations in measuring, monitoring, and managing risks associated with AI, which helps build customer trust and unlock sales opportunities. By prioritizing human control over AI technologies, Credo AI aims to enhance both business outcomes and societal benefits. The company has received recognition in the industry, including listings in CBInsights AI 100 and accolades from the World Economic Forum and Fast Company.

Civio.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
AI for B2G Revenue Generation

ValidMind

Seed Round in 2024
ValidMind specializes in artificial intelligence governance and risk management, focusing on the financial services sector's need to manage risks associated with AI and machine learning models. The company's platform automates essential elements of the AI/ML model risk management process, enhancing accuracy and consistency in documentation, validation, testing, and audit tracking. This solution enables financial institutions to effectively navigate the complexities of AI technologies while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. ValidMind aims to foster a secure and ethical AI ecosystem, positioning itself as a key partner for organizations seeking to responsibly adopt AI advancements, including large language models. The team at ValidMind comprises experienced professionals with strong technical and academic backgrounds, committed to guiding clients through the evolving regulatory landscape and promoting societal well-being.

Rypple.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Rypple is a hyper-personalized leadership and performance coaching platform powered by generative AI. Our mission is to empower leaders at every level by providing personalized, data-driven insights and coaching to drive professional growth and impact. Rypple believes in the power of AI to help people gain new perspectives, think differently about the work challenges they are facing and reach their full potential as leaders. Integrating research in leadership, coaching and AI, Rypple develops and offers a science-based experience to all stakeholders. Rypple is funded by AI Fund, a venture studio led by Dr. Andrew Ng and backed by NEA, Softbank, Sequoia and Greylock.

Podcastle

Series A in 2024
Podcastle, Inc. is an innovative online platform that transforms text news and articles into podcasts using advanced machine learning technology. Founded in 2020 and based in Middletown, Delaware, Podcastle provides an AI-powered content creation suite designed for podcasters, educators, marketers, and other creators. The platform enables users to produce professional-quality audio and video content, including podcasts and audiobooks, with ease. Its features include tools for recording, editing, enhancing, transcribing, and exporting content, along with a browser extension that simplifies the conversion of text to audio. By focusing on capturing the emotions and tone of the written content, Podcastle aims to streamline the content creation process, allowing users to efficiently generate engaging audio content without the extensive time investment typically required.

CallidusAI

Seed Round in 2024
CallidusAI's staff brings extensive experience in data science, legal process improvement/automation, and enterprise SaaS.

Meeno

Seed Round in 2023
Meeno is a developer of an AI-driven relationship mentoring app designed for young adults, particularly targeting Gen Z. The platform offers personalized coaching exercises aimed at improving close relationships. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Meeno provides tailored feedback and guidance on various aspects of relationships, helping users to strengthen their social connections and enhance their overall well-being. The app is structured as a vertical AI product, focusing specifically on the unique needs and challenges faced by its audience.

Paxton

Seed Round in 2023
Paxton is a legal tech company that utilizes cutting-edge AI technology to transform the way legal professionals work. Our robust AI platform ingests vast sources of legal information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, and provides precise, relevant, and insightful responses to user queries. From answering questions about regulations to drafting legal documents, Paxton AI transforms the legal research and analysis process, saving time and increasing efficiency.

Kira

Venture Round in 2023
Kira Learning is an AI-driven education technology company that creates innovative tools and solutions to support educators and students. Its primary mission is to empower schools, districts, and teachers by integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into educational practices, making teaching more effective and learning more engaging.

Kula

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kula is a wellness firm focused on facilitating real-world social connections. The company aims to move beyond digital interactions by organizing gatherings for individuals with similar interests and values. This approach allows customers to discover and engage with like-minded communities, fostering genuine relationships and shared experiences. Kula's platform emphasizes the importance of face-to-face interactions in building meaningful connections.

Meeno

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Meeno is a developer of an AI-driven relationship mentoring app designed for young adults, particularly targeting Gen Z. The platform offers personalized coaching exercises aimed at improving close relationships. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Meeno provides tailored feedback and guidance on various aspects of relationships, helping users to strengthen their social connections and enhance their overall well-being. The app is structured as a vertical AI product, focusing specifically on the unique needs and challenges faced by its audience.

DataHeroes

Seed Round in 2023
DataHeroes is focused on creating a Python library that addresses significant challenges in machine learning, particularly in reducing the time, effort, and resources needed to develop and maintain high-quality models. The company's software is designed to simplify and accelerate various data science operations, including data exploration, cleaning, labeling, training, and model maintenance. By enabling clients to condense their datasets while preserving essential statistical properties and corner cases, DataHeroes enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of machine learning processes.

Workera

Series B in 2023
Workera is a precision upskilling platform that enables enterprises, governments, and individuals to enhance their technological capabilities in areas such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer a detailed assessment of workforce skills, providing hyper-personalized learning plans tailored to individual needs. This approach helps organizations identify skill gaps and mobilize talent effectively, ensuring they remain competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Through AI-driven mentorship and adaptive assessments, Workera delivers measurable results that facilitate upskilling and reskilling efforts, ultimately supporting informed decision-making in talent acquisition and development.

Sunrise AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Sunrise AI specializes in AI-driven automation software, focusing on extracting insights from unstructured data and automating repetitive tasks. Its platform, which includes data extraction from diverse sources, automation of complex workflows, and real-time reporting, enhances decision-making efficiency across various industries.

Bionic Health

Seed Round in 2023
Bionic Health is a digital healthcare company focused on providing preventative health services, particularly for individuals experiencing chronic pain. The company has developed a platform that utilizes frequent diagnostics and machine learning to create personalized treatment plans. This approach emphasizes slowing down the aging process and offers patients tailored insights derived from ongoing assessments. By implementing an iterative journey, Bionic Health enables users to identify their unique health needs and make impactful lifestyle changes over time. Additionally, patients benefit from closely monitored preventative care throughout the year, enhancing their overall well-being.

Speechlab

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Speechlab is focused on developing a pioneering platform for speech-to-speech translation aimed at professional creators, streaming media, and online education. Incubated at Andrew Ng's AI Fund, the company leverages its team's extensive experience in creating and commercializing advanced speech technologies. Its platform is designed to enhance accessibility for individuals who speak different languages by offering various services, including media accessibility, localization, live interpretation, and automated dubbing. These features are tailored to support professionally produced audio and video content, allowing creators to automate the translation process and reach a broader audience through a freemium model.

Netail

Seed Round in 2022
Netail is a technology company that provides digital solutions for retailers to enhance their competitive edge in the online marketplace. Its platform allows retailers to automatically identify competitors across the internet, track their product assortments, and optimize pricing in real-time. By leveraging this technology, retailers can significantly increase traffic to their online stores, boost profits, and enhance overall revenue. Netail's focus is on helping retailers attract, convert, and retain digital consumers in an increasingly competitive environment.

ViaVia

Seed Round in 2022
ViaVia is a video-driven shopping platform that specializes in fashion and streetwear, offering a curated selection of brands and exclusive made-in-Italy labels. The platform enhances the fashion e-commerce experience by integrating creator-driven live and short-form video content with AI-powered technology. This approach not only provides customers with styling advice but also facilitates a streamlined supply chain, increasing order flow to local manufacturers while reducing brand costs and production lead times. ViaVia aims to empower young customers to make confident fashion choices by showcasing apparel and accessories that align with their personal style.

Kira

Seed Round in 2022
Kira Learning is an AI-driven education technology company that creates innovative tools and solutions to support educators and students. Its primary mission is to empower schools, districts, and teachers by integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into educational practices, making teaching more effective and learning more engaging.

Credo AI

Series A in 2022
Credo AI is focused on enabling enterprises to responsibly develop, adopt, and utilize artificial intelligence at scale. The company offers an AI governance platform that automates oversight and risk management, ensuring compliance with emerging global standards such as the EU AI Act and NIST. Founded in 2020, Credo AI's platform supports organizations in measuring, monitoring, and managing risks associated with AI, which helps build customer trust and unlock sales opportunities. By prioritizing human control over AI technologies, Credo AI aims to enhance both business outcomes and societal benefits. The company has received recognition in the industry, including listings in CBInsights AI 100 and accolades from the World Economic Forum and Fast Company.

Baseten

Seed Round in 2022
Baseten provides a serverless backend designed to simplify the development of machine-learning-powered applications. It enables data science and machine learning teams to create applications without requiring extensive knowledge of backend, frontend, or MLOps. With features such as auto-scaling, GPU access, CRON jobs, and serverless functions, Baseten facilitates quicker and more informed decision-making within organizations. The platform offers reusable components that allow users to efficiently assemble workflows and deploy machine learning models in a scalable and cost-effective manner. By streamlining the transition from prototype to production, Baseten empowers engineers to maintain flexibility in their coding while ensuring high performance and rapid inference in response to varying traffic demands. The company aims to make machine learning accessible to organizations of all sizes.

Filtered

Venture Round in 2022
Filtered, LLC is a Boston-based company that has developed a technical candidate interview platform aimed at enhancing the recruitment of engineers. Founded in 2016, the platform utilizes a combination of engineering interview templates and coding tasks to assess candidates' coding abilities, employing artificial intelligence to ensure a comprehensive evaluation of technical and cultural fit. By automating the technical screening process, Filtered helps organizations eliminate unconscious bias and focus on skills-based hiring. The platform offers features such as auto-generated coding challenges, video interviews, and candidate authentication, which streamline the hiring process, reduce time-to-fill, and improve interview-to-hire ratios. Ultimately, Filtered enables companies to build high-performing technical teams while minimizing costs and maximizing the quality of new hires.

Kira

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kira Learning is an AI-driven education technology company that creates innovative tools and solutions to support educators and students. Its primary mission is to empower schools, districts, and teachers by integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into educational practices, making teaching more effective and learning more engaging.

LandingAI

Series A in 2021
Landing AI is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence transformation programs tailored for the manufacturing industry. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company develops solutions focused on visual inspection, automation, calibration, and automated issue identification. Its offerings cater to a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, retail, automotive, agriculture, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. The company aims to empower organizations to become AI-driven by providing a platform that enhances the accuracy of machine learning models through effective data generation and labeling. This platform helps identify environmental issues and alerts users to model changes, thereby facilitating efficient data management and accelerating troubleshooting processes. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, a prominent figure in AI, Landing AI is positioned to deliver practical AI solutions that drive value for businesses globally.

WhyLabs

Series A in 2021
WhyLabs, Inc. provides an AI observability platform that allows organizations to effectively monitor and analyze both structured and unstructured data from their AI models. The platform is designed to handle large volumes of data, processing terabytes without compromising storage efficiency. It continuously tracks data in real-time, monitoring model accuracy, concept drift, and overall model behavior. This functionality enables teams to identify and address potential issues, such as bias and performance decay, before they impact business operations. WhyLabs' tools are utilized by a range of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to AI-centric startups, significantly reducing manual operations and accelerating the resolution of AI-related incidents. The company was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and has received funding from notable investors including Andrew Ng’s AI Fund and Bezos Expeditions.

Credo AI

Seed Round in 2021
Credo AI is focused on enabling enterprises to responsibly develop, adopt, and utilize artificial intelligence at scale. The company offers an AI governance platform that automates oversight and risk management, ensuring compliance with emerging global standards such as the EU AI Act and NIST. Founded in 2020, Credo AI's platform supports organizations in measuring, monitoring, and managing risks associated with AI, which helps build customer trust and unlock sales opportunities. By prioritizing human control over AI technologies, Credo AI aims to enhance both business outcomes and societal benefits. The company has received recognition in the industry, including listings in CBInsights AI 100 and accolades from the World Economic Forum and Fast Company.

Podcastle

Venture Round in 2021
Podcastle, Inc. is an innovative online platform that transforms text news and articles into podcasts using advanced machine learning technology. Founded in 2020 and based in Middletown, Delaware, Podcastle provides an AI-powered content creation suite designed for podcasters, educators, marketers, and other creators. The platform enables users to produce professional-quality audio and video content, including podcasts and audiobooks, with ease. Its features include tools for recording, editing, enhancing, transcribing, and exporting content, along with a browser extension that simplifies the conversion of text to audio. By focusing on capturing the emotions and tone of the written content, Podcastle aims to streamline the content creation process, allowing users to efficiently generate engaging audio content without the extensive time investment typically required.

Workera

Series A in 2021
Workera is a precision upskilling platform that enables enterprises, governments, and individuals to enhance their technological capabilities in areas such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer a detailed assessment of workforce skills, providing hyper-personalized learning plans tailored to individual needs. This approach helps organizations identify skill gaps and mobilize talent effectively, ensuring they remain competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Through AI-driven mentorship and adaptive assessments, Workera delivers measurable results that facilitate upskilling and reskilling efforts, ultimately supporting informed decision-making in talent acquisition and development.

10Web

Seed Round in 2021
10Web is a company that specializes in an AI-driven platform designed to streamline the creation, hosting, and management of professional websites. Its automated website builder utilizes artificial intelligence to build or recreate websites efficiently. The platform is built on secure cloud technology and offers a range of services, including web security, search engine optimization, image optimization, and performance enhancements. By providing these tools, 10Web aims to increase productivity for its clients, allowing them to enhance their websites' functionality and effectiveness in a simplified manner.

Filtered

Venture Round in 2021
Filtered, LLC is a Boston-based company that has developed a technical candidate interview platform aimed at enhancing the recruitment of engineers. Founded in 2016, the platform utilizes a combination of engineering interview templates and coding tasks to assess candidates' coding abilities, employing artificial intelligence to ensure a comprehensive evaluation of technical and cultural fit. By automating the technical screening process, Filtered helps organizations eliminate unconscious bias and focus on skills-based hiring. The platform offers features such as auto-generated coding challenges, video interviews, and candidate authentication, which streamline the hiring process, reduce time-to-fill, and improve interview-to-hire ratios. Ultimately, Filtered enables companies to build high-performing technical teams while minimizing costs and maximizing the quality of new hires.

Kleeen Software

Seed Round in 2021
Kleeen Software Inc. is a technology company that focuses on transforming product design and development for enterprise clients. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Costa Rica, Kleeen offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. This application leverages data science to convert user objectives into enterprise-grade user interface (UI) designs and implementations. Kleeen aims to streamline product innovation by allowing users to create visually appealing and scalable UIs without the complications of traditional hand-offs between product, design, and engineering teams. The company is recognized for its ambition to enhance both the speed and quality of the UI development process, positioning itself as a leader in simplifying enterprise product UI creation.

Workera

Seed Round in 2020
Workera is a precision upskilling platform that enables enterprises, governments, and individuals to enhance their technological capabilities in areas such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer a detailed assessment of workforce skills, providing hyper-personalized learning plans tailored to individual needs. This approach helps organizations identify skill gaps and mobilize talent effectively, ensuring they remain competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Through AI-driven mentorship and adaptive assessments, Workera delivers measurable results that facilitate upskilling and reskilling efforts, ultimately supporting informed decision-making in talent acquisition and development.

Podcastle

Seed Round in 2020
Podcastle, Inc. is an innovative online platform that transforms text news and articles into podcasts using advanced machine learning technology. Founded in 2020 and based in Middletown, Delaware, Podcastle provides an AI-powered content creation suite designed for podcasters, educators, marketers, and other creators. The platform enables users to produce professional-quality audio and video content, including podcasts and audiobooks, with ease. Its features include tools for recording, editing, enhancing, transcribing, and exporting content, along with a browser extension that simplifies the conversion of text to audio. By focusing on capturing the emotions and tone of the written content, Podcastle aims to streamline the content creation process, allowing users to efficiently generate engaging audio content without the extensive time investment typically required.

Factored

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Factored is a company focused on helping businesses assemble high-quality remote data science and machine-learning teams quickly and efficiently. Co-founded by AI expert Andrew Ng and Stanford University instructors, Factored specializes in sourcing and rigorously vetting talented AI engineers who work within USA time zones. The company conducts thorough assessments to ensure that its engineers rank in the top 1-3% in essential data science competencies, including machine learning and algorithmic coding. Factored offers comprehensive talent augmentation services that encompass sourcing, training, recruiting, and managing data infrastructure for clients. This approach enables organizations to build and scale elite teams in data science, data engineering, and data analytics in a cost-effective manner.

LandingAI

Seed Round in 2019
Landing AI is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence transformation programs tailored for the manufacturing industry. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company develops solutions focused on visual inspection, automation, calibration, and automated issue identification. Its offerings cater to a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, retail, automotive, agriculture, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. The company aims to empower organizations to become AI-driven by providing a platform that enhances the accuracy of machine learning models through effective data generation and labeling. This platform helps identify environmental issues and alerts users to model changes, thereby facilitating efficient data management and accelerating troubleshooting processes. Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, a prominent figure in AI, Landing AI is positioned to deliver practical AI solutions that drive value for businesses globally.

Woebot Health

Series A in 2018
Woebot Health is a digital mental healthcare provider that focuses on delivering personalized support through an innovative platform. This platform integrates advanced artificial intelligence and natural language processing with established therapeutic techniques to create engaging mental health tools. At the core of its offering is Woebot, a relational agent designed to provide continuous, empathic, and personalized care. By leveraging these technologies, Woebot Health enables individuals and businesses to access effective mental health support conveniently and seamlessly, fitting into everyday life and promoting overall well-being.

Common Sense Privacy

Common Sense Privacy focuses on enhancing online privacy for both businesses and consumers by providing privacy assessment technology. Its artificial intelligence-driven subscription software allows companies to evaluate and manage privacy risks effectively. By offering online privacy ratings, the company enables businesses to distinguish themselves through a certification seal, which signifies their commitment to privacy. Additionally, Common Sense Privacy provides benchmarking and actionable insights derived from extensive practical examples, helping organizations navigate and comply with privacy regulations. In doing so, it aims to foster a more secure digital environment.

RealAvatar

RealAvatar specializes in creating AI-powered conversational avatars that engage users in audio and chat interactions. The company partners with experts and public figures to develop authentic, multimodal avatars that simulate conversations, enhancing learning and entertainment experiences. RealAvatar's platform also benefits sales teams by providing an engaging tool for improved customer communication and engagement.

Freight Hero

Freight Hero, based in Palo Alto, California, is a technology company specializing in AI-driven logistics solutions. It offers a platform that optimizes freight and shipping processes for businesses, enhancing efficiency and reducing operational costs. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Freight Hero streamlines freight brokerage, improving decision-making and logistics management. The platform provides users with increased visibility into their supply chain, enabling better tracking and management of shipments. It prioritizes data protection and transparency, ensuring secure handling of customer information.

Bhuma

Bhuma is a technology company that specializes in a front-end automation platform. This platform enables users to create interactive dashboard applications for GraphQL and REST APIs using a visual builder, simplifying the development process. By offering low-code development tools, Bhuma helps sales teams and sales development representatives streamline their workflows and gain valuable insights. The platform's focus on data visualization and reporting enhances decision-making within organizations, making it a practical solution for teams aiming to optimize their data interactions and application development.
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