Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Past deals in Data Mining

Olio Labs

Venture Round in 2025
Olio Labs is a biotechnology company focused on developing combination therapeutics that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance treatment efficacy and reduce side effects. By employing automated discovery methods, the company analyzes protein interactions in the body, allowing for a more comprehensive approach to therapeutic design. Unlike traditional methods that typically target a limited number of proteins, Olio Labs' innovative strategy aims to create effective treatment solutions that consider a wider range of interacting proteins, ultimately improving patient outcomes.

Unsloth

Seed Round in 2024
Unsloth is an AI startup dedicated to enhancing the accessibility of artificial intelligence for users across various sectors. The company has developed an open-source fine-tuning and training platform that significantly accelerates the process of customizing large language models (LLMs), making them 2.2 times faster and reducing VRAM usage by 62%. This all-in-one solution is designed to assist scientists and researchers in diverse fields, including skin cancer prediction, DNA sequencing, vaccine development, environmental conservation, and space research. By providing tools that enable the rapid creation of accurate custom models, Unsloth empowers users to analyze large datasets more effectively, thus facilitating advancements in critical areas of research and innovation.

Undermind

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Undermind is a research-focused company that develops an AI-powered search engine designed to address complex inquiries. The firm utilizes advanced AI algorithms to enhance its search capabilities, allowing users to navigate extensive literature and find answers to intricate questions efficiently. By leveraging technology to tackle difficult queries, Undermind aims to streamline the research process and provide accurate, relevant information to its users.

Silurian AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Silurian AI specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence models to simulate Earth's systems, with a primary focus on weather patterns and climate change. Their platform combines cutting-edge regional weather forecasting and Earth system modeling, empowering governments and businesses to anticipate environmental challenges and make data-driven decisions for sustainable operations.

expand.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Expand.ai specializes in transforming any website into a type-safe API, facilitating seamless and secure integration. Its platform, a web scraping tool, offers customizable schemas, rigorous data quality checks, and high-speed extraction capabilities, enabling developers and businesses to efficiently access and integrate reliable web data, thereby reducing operational complexities.

Unbound Security

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.

NetworkOcean

Pre Seed Round in 2024
NetworkOcean specializes in the development and operation of underwater data centers, focusing on environmental sustainability and enhanced internet performance. By utilizing submerged installations, the company aims to eliminate the use of freshwater and significantly reduce power consumption, claiming reductions of up to 30%. These data centers are engineered to provide lower latency, making them particularly well-suited for demanding tasks such as GPU workloads in artificial intelligence applications. NetworkOcean's innovative approach not only enhances hardware reliability but also lowers operating costs, thereby offering a more efficient solution in the data center industry.

Hamming AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products.

Bucket Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Bucket Robotics specializes in the development of automated defect detection systems aimed at improving quality control in manufacturing processes. The company offers a platform that transforms CAD models into real-time defect detection systems, allowing for pre-manufacturing deployment and automated model refinement. This technology is complemented by robust analytics that monitor production performance, enabling manufacturers to optimize their operations, minimize waste, and enhance product quality through accurate defect identification and classification. Bucket Robotics focuses on providing solutions that streamline manufacturing workflows and ensure higher standards of quality assurance.

Sorcerer

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Sorcerer specializes in developing and operating long-duration weather balloons, capable of flying for over six months, which significantly enhances data collection efficiency and accessibility. These balloons gather extensive meteorological data, even in previously inaccessible regions, empowering researchers, policymakers, and businesses to make more accurate weather predictions and informed decisions for climate resilience and disaster preparedness.

Octolane AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Octolane AI is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its platform processes real-time data from diverse sources such as healthcare and sales, enabling businesses to cleanse, analyze, and cross-check vast datasets for informed decision-making.

Argon AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Argon AI is a platform that empowers biopharmacy and life sciences professionals to perform complex, data-driven tasks using natural language. It enables users to obtain detailed answers to inquiries about clinical trials, existing medicines, healthcare landscape, and market competition swiftly, reducing the time from months to minutes.

Infinity AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Infinity AI is a San Francisco-based startup specializing in accelerating AI model development using synthetic data. Its platform enables precise control over data distributions, allowing engineers to generate hundreds of labeled videos from a single real-world input. Infinity combines physics-based simulations and generative techniques to achieve this.

Eqtble

Seed Round in 2024
Eqtble is a next-generation people analytics and HR data platform that enhances HR efficiency by providing intuitive tracking of goals and metrics. The platform specializes in integrating various systems to deliver insights into workforce dynamics, talent management, employee engagement, and compensation structures. By analyzing disconnected data sources and creating a standardized data layer, eqtble enables organizations to derive actionable insights from their employee data. Additionally, the company focuses on transforming how businesses approach diversity and inclusion, utilizing advanced analytics to foster meaningful change within organizations.

Datacurve

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Datacurve is a technology company that specializes in providing high-quality coding data for applications and large language models. The platform connects businesses with a network of skilled engineers who generate and vet data, ensuring its accuracy and diversity. By focusing on complex coding problems and frameworks, Datacurve helps organizations enhance their generative AI tools and build more capable models.

dawn

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Dawn is the analytics platform for AI products specializing in converting user interactions into actionable insights.

Flower Labs

Series A in 2024
Flower Labs is an open-source framework dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence through federated learning. By enabling companies to train AI models on distributed, sensitive data, Flower Labs addresses a critical challenge in the AI landscape where most models rely on centralized public data. The platform is designed to be interoperable across various operating systems and hardware, allowing for seamless integration in heterogeneous edge device environments. It supports a wide range of machine learning frameworks and programming languages, making federated approaches accessible to a diverse set of users. Notable companies such as Banking Circle, Nokia, Porsche, and Brave utilize Flower to enhance their AI capabilities while maintaining data privacy and security. This innovative approach aims to leverage significantly more data, unlocking potential advancements in AI development.

Olio Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Olio Labs is a biotechnology company focused on developing combination therapeutics that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance treatment efficacy and reduce side effects. By employing automated discovery methods, the company analyzes protein interactions in the body, allowing for a more comprehensive approach to therapeutic design. Unlike traditional methods that typically target a limited number of proteins, Olio Labs' innovative strategy aims to create effective treatment solutions that consider a wider range of interacting proteins, ultimately improving patient outcomes.

MediSearch

Seed Round in 2023
MediSearch is a technology company that develops a search engine platform. This platform is designed to deliver direct, science-based answers to medical questions, empowering users to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. It offers a user-friendly interface, expert-curated information, and reliable sources, making it a trusted resource for those seeking health or bioscience insights.

MantleBio

Seed Round in 2023
MantleBio is a medical technology company focused on developing software that enhances data-driven discovery in the biotechnology sector. Its platform is designed to manage and analyze biological data, streamlining the drug discovery process. By providing tools that assist scientists and computational biologists in handling high-throughput experiments, MantleBio enables biotech companies to utilize advancements in computational science and machine learning effectively. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to accelerate the development of new therapeutics and improve research efficiency within the industry.

Silimate

Seed Round in 2023
Silimate is a company that specializes in developing automation platforms aimed at enhancing chip design workflows. Its innovative platform automates the chip design process by utilizing end-to-end workflow software that efficiently analyzes large volumes of log files to assess design status. This technology simplifies the setup of complex experiments through ad hoc scripting while providing tools for debugging errors. By streamlining these processes, Silimate allows clients to concentrate on their core design tasks, thereby improving overall productivity in the chip design sector.

Flower Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Flower Labs is an open-source framework dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence through federated learning. By enabling companies to train AI models on distributed, sensitive data, Flower Labs addresses a critical challenge in the AI landscape where most models rely on centralized public data. The platform is designed to be interoperable across various operating systems and hardware, allowing for seamless integration in heterogeneous edge device environments. It supports a wide range of machine learning frameworks and programming languages, making federated approaches accessible to a diverse set of users. Notable companies such as Banking Circle, Nokia, Porsche, and Brave utilize Flower to enhance their AI capabilities while maintaining data privacy and security. This innovative approach aims to leverage significantly more data, unlocking potential advancements in AI development.

NuMind

Seed Round in 2023
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Dialect

Seed Round in 2023
Dialect is a platform that provides assistance to the enterprise data warehouse. Questa runs business teams with query, visualization, and action of data with natural language. Questa was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Complif

Seed Round in 2022
Complif is a technology company that specializes in regulatory compliance for financial institutions. It offers a platform designed to simplify complex regulatory tasks such as Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures, while also monitoring regulatory obligations. The platform aims to help financial companies grow their operations securely and efficiently, reducing regulatory risk and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Integration Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs, formerly RootFi, provides a unified data integration platform and API that lets companies read and write customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payments data across platforms. The solution supports automating accounting, underwriting credit risk, and deriving business insights by syncing data across systems with standardized data models, enabling clients to streamline AP/AR, payroll accounting, and to build new tools and applications.

Monterey AI

Venture Round in 2022
Monterey AI is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2022 that specializes in AI software for product development. It offers a product development copilot designed to enhance product velocity for hyper-growth teams. By replacing traditional documentation with use case-centric workflows, Monterey AI enables product leads to strategize, measure, and align their efforts effectively. The company's intelligent customer voice infrastructure helps clients gather and analyze both qualitative and quantitative feedback, establishing user feedback channels that drive insights. This approach allows companies to identify strategies that boost engagement and reduce churn, ultimately supporting product operations teams in navigating the complexities of product dependency and interconnectivity.

TigerEye

Series A in 2022
TigerEye is a developer of sales software technology designed to enhance decision-making for a multigenerational workforce. The company leverages its expertise in machine learning and mobile enterprise solutions to address the limitations of legacy software, creating tools that empower sales leaders to make more informed and strategic choices. By focusing on the specific needs of businesses, TigerEye aims to provide innovative solutions that facilitate improved sales processes and outcomes.

NuMind

Pre Seed Round in 2022
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Cinder Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
From content moderation to responsible AI, Cinder empowers businesses to orchestrate and automate digital safety at scale. Cinder was founded to help organizations foster safe online spaces for everyone. The Cinder platform empowers companies from start-ups to enterprises with end-to-end capabilities to mitigate harm, investigate abuse, and produce trustworthy and reliable AI outcomes. Building your world-class company means keeping your users and community safe—Cinder unlocks faster growth by making safety easy. We work with customers in every industry from frontier AI labs to e-commerce and social media.

BIK

Venture Round in 2022
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Hydra

Seed Round in 2022
Hydra is an open-source data warehouse that specializes in columnar storage, vectorization, and parallelized query execution

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin provides a competitive intelligence software platform for retailers and brands. It delivers global, real-time coverage of product assortments and pricing data from e-commerce sites across more than 100 million SKUs, enabling customers to monitor competitors' offerings and pricing at scale. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to collect, track, and categorize web data, helping retailers and brands understand competitive strategy and automate data-driven decision making.

BIK

Series A in 2021
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Talus Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talus Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in drug discovery. It focuses on developing therapies targeting challenging cancer transcription factors using its proprietary MARMOT platform, which integrates functional proteomics, automated biology, machine learning, AI, synthetic chemistry, and computational biology to design and analyze drugs, proteins, and genomics.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2020
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing an open banking application programming interface (API) designed to facilitate seamless payment transactions between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Established in 2019 and based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dapi provides a suite of APIs that enable real-time access to customer bank accounts, payment initiation, and financial data retrieval. This functionality allows developers to create a variety of financial applications, including digital wallets and budget trackers, while also enabling fintech companies to offer services based on bank statement data. Operating in seven countries, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait, Dapi has experienced significant demand for its services, achieving notable growth in annual recurring revenue.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain is a developer of a carbon accounting platform designed to assist organizations in tracking, reporting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout their supply chains. The platform is particularly focused on high-emission industries such as metals, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. By enabling companies to identify their emissions-related transactions, CarbonChain helps them take proactive measures to mitigate their environmental impact and adapt to increasing carbon prices. This capability not only aids firms in understanding the climate implications of their procurement choices but also supports their transition towards a net-zero economy.

BIK

Seed Round in 2020
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain is a developer of a carbon accounting platform designed to assist organizations in tracking, reporting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout their supply chains. The platform is particularly focused on high-emission industries such as metals, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. By enabling companies to identify their emissions-related transactions, CarbonChain helps them take proactive measures to mitigate their environmental impact and adapt to increasing carbon prices. This capability not only aids firms in understanding the climate implications of their procurement choices but also supports their transition towards a net-zero economy.

54gene

Series A in 2020
54gene is a biotechnology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria. The company focuses on unlocking the potential of the African genome to enhance genetic research and development, addressing a significant gap in the global genomics market where a majority of genetic data is derived from individuals of Caucasian descent. By developing a pan-African biobank, 54gene aims to identify new drug targets and create diagnostics and treatments for various diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition to its research initiatives, the company offers genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services to patients and healthcare providers, ensuring compliance with international data privacy laws. Through its efforts, 54gene seeks to contribute to the discovery of medical advancements that can benefit diverse populations.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Prolific

Seed Round in 2019
Prolific is a company that offers an online platform for researchers seeking to recruit survey participants efficiently and ethically. By connecting a diverse global audience, Prolific enables users to quickly submit surveys and specify their target demographics, facilitating the collection of high-quality psychological and behavioral data in a matter of minutes. The company's mission is to enhance accessibility to trustworthy data, ultimately supporting improved human knowledge and informed decision-making. Through its innovative approach, Prolific empowers researchers by providing a reliable and streamlined data collection process.

54gene

Seed Round in 2019
54gene is a biotechnology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria. The company focuses on unlocking the potential of the African genome to enhance genetic research and development, addressing a significant gap in the global genomics market where a majority of genetic data is derived from individuals of Caucasian descent. By developing a pan-African biobank, 54gene aims to identify new drug targets and create diagnostics and treatments for various diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition to its research initiatives, the company offers genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services to patients and healthcare providers, ensuring compliance with international data privacy laws. Through its efforts, 54gene seeks to contribute to the discovery of medical advancements that can benefit diverse populations.

GeoPredict

Seed Round in 2019
GeoPredict Minerals, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, has developed a geospatial machine learning platform aimed at assisting mineral owners in making informed exploration decisions. The platform evaluates mineral rights, drilling patterns, and historical drilling performance data to improve the chances of discovering viable deposits, particularly in the context of rare earth minerals and electric car battery materials. By leveraging machine learning, GeoPredict offers a solution that enhances decision-making for exploration industry stakeholders, moving beyond traditional reliance on geologists' intuitions, which can often lack quantitative accuracy. This innovation aims to reduce wastefulness and improve the odds of finding valuable mineral resources.

Biobot Analytics

Seed Round in 2018
Biobot Analytics, Inc. is a wastewater epidemiology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. It specializes in transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories through innovative technology that analyzes sewage for health-related data. By deploying proprietary sampling devices and spatial analytics, Biobot measures various health threats, including infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and drug consumption patterns. The company's Opioid Consumption Monitoring Program specifically estimates opioid use in urban areas by analyzing wastewater. This approach generates anonymized public health data that is independent of traditional hospital reporting systems, allowing for rapid adaptability to emerging public health threats. Biobot Analytics offers its insights as a service, providing government officials with actionable data to prioritize interventions and address public health challenges effectively.

Unbound Security

Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.
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