VC
Venture Capital Firms
Professional investment firms that manage pooled capital from limited partners to invest in high-growth startups. They are the most active lead investors in AI and participate across every stage from seed to growth.
- Typical stage
- Seed to Series C+
- Typical check
- $500K — $500M+
- Investors in atlas
- 16
AI Relevance
Primary source of capital for foundation-model labs, AI infrastructure, and vertical AI applications.
Reference examples
Sequoia Capital · Andreessen Horowitz · Accel · Index Ventures
Investors in the Atlas
Lollapalooza CapitalVCFOResearch-driven venture capital backing frontier AI founders
Llama VenturesVCFounder-built early-stage fund backing AI-native companies across the full intelligence stack
GradientVCThe seed fund designed for founders in AI
ConvictionVCVenture firm purpose-built for AI-native 'Software 3.0' companies
AIX VenturesVCThe AI-focused fund built for and by the industry’s best
Air Street CapitalVCVenture capital for AI-first companies
Radical VenturesVCPartners in the intelligence era — backing AI founders from day-zero to pre-IPO.
Menlo VenturesVCThe 50-year-old firm that went all in on AI after betting the firm on Anthropic
Shunwei CapitalVCCVCXiaomi-affiliated venture firm betting on embodied intelligence and AI infrastructure
HongShanVCChina's most systematic AI backer — from foundation models to robot hands and brain-computer interfaces
Sequoia CapitalVCThe Menlo Park partnership that turned aggressive on AI after its 2025 leadership handover
Andreessen HorowitzVCThe largest dedicated AI capital pool in venture, deployed across models, infrastructure and applications
Peak XV PartnersVCIndia and Southeast Asia's largest venture franchise, backing applied AI over frontier models- Lightspeed Venture PartnersVCThe $40B+ multi-stage firm that rebuilt its franchise around AI capital intensity
General CatalystVCThe health-care-born generalist that turned AI into a thesis of its own
Index VenturesVCThe Geneva-born transatlantic firm that bankrolled Europe's AI champions from the first cheque