AIX Ventures
@aixventureshq
AI-focused venture firm investing in early-stage companies. http://aixventures.com. @antgoldbloom @chrmanning @richardsocher @shaunbjohnson
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Watch General Partner @RichardSocher join @tbpn's @johncoogan and @jordihays to discuss the data landscape, role of academia vs startups, and AIX's investment strategy. Watch here: youtube.com/live/p7ERvuUVn…

Today AIX Ventures co-founder and general partner @shaunbjohnson joined @BloombergTV to discuss the early stage AI market and M&A. Watch to hear his predictions along the latest news during the conversation with @EdLudlow and @CarolineHydeTV: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
Ion Stoica joined our AIX Founder Summit to talk about a few AI trends he has been thinking about: “Open-source models—especially from China—are quickly catching up to proprietary systems. Enterprise AI? It’s all about reliability, trust, and workflow fit. As use cases get…


At the AIX Ventures Founder Summit, @antgoldbloom (AIX Ventures Partner, CEO @ Sumble) discussed Navigating the AI Market. He reminds us: “Innovation is noisy; customers provide the clearest signal. Our team stays grounded by only applying LLM advances when they create real…

Excited to spotlight portfolio company @atmo_ai and their AI-driven typhoon forecasting at the upcoming "Rapid Intensification" event in SF. Join top atmospheric scientists, AI researchers, and national security experts for a unique night, complete with a typhoon wind simulator.…
Last week AIX Ventures Founding Partner @shaunbjohnson spoke with famed foreign affairs correspondent David Rothkopf about his predictions for geopolitical and regulatory battles over AI. Listen to their discussion on how he expects AI to shape the workforce and economy of…
AI is enabling a new generation of companies that are leaner than previously possible. This gives an extraordinary advantage to AI-native startups compared to older companies. AIX's Krish Ramadurai spoke with @RebeccaTorrenc5 about how startups are doing more with less in…
Chroma is now 4x faster, powered by Rust. trychroma.com/project/1.0.0
The entire AIX Ventures team is excited to announce our leading of the Series A financing of @workhelix. Congrats to @JamesMilin, @danielrock, @AndrewMcAfee9, @erikbryn, and the entire Workhelix team on the progress. We are excited to be on this multi-decade enterprise AI…
Today we announce that @aixventureshq has led the Series A of @workhelix. Every enterprise must have an AI transformation war room. Deploying AI will lead to pricing power. When productivity improves through AI, gross- and operating- margins go up. This means price can…
Real-world validation is the best kind of validation in AI!
I just took a walk in Paris and at least four people stopped me to say they love Perplexity and showed me the app on their iPhone. No exaggeration. I’m genuinely surprised at the level of adoption and daily usage here. We’re just getting started. 🇫🇷
“DeepSeek-R1 doesn’t mean that any of the US companies are out of the race.” Catch up on our deep dive on DeepSeek from @chrmanning, AIX Ventures Investment Partner and Director of Stanford AI Lab. Exploring its impact on innovation, geopolitical implications and the rise of open…
Congrats to AIX Ventures Partner @chrmanning!
Congratulations to @StanfordHAI Associate Director @chrmanning for being elected to @theNAEng – the highest professional distinction awarded to an engineer!👏 nae.edu/19579/31222/20…
MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research tcrn.ch/3PZ2bDm
Congrats to AIX Ventures portfolio company @AtomicAICo!
GREAT NEWS: Atomic AI has been named one of "𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵." A huge thank you to @pharmasalmanac, as well as our team, partners & supporters. 2025 is going to be a great year! 📰 Check out the full list: pharmasalmanac.com/articles/five-…
Every verification photo in last-mile delivery or micro-mobility is a moment of truth. Delayed feedback leads to disputes, missed hazards & inefficiencies. @Captur_App is changing that with LiveAI—real-time image verification on any mobile device and it's all powered by W&B!
How do you teach AI to build in the physical world? @EdwardMehr sat down with @jacobgoldstein on @PushkinPods to explore how AI-driven robotics is transforming manufacturing ... starting with sheet metal forming on our RoboCraftsman.
At our HQ in SF, AIX Ventures Partner @chrmanning broke down how DeepSeek has been very successful at producing MOE models with very large numbers of experts. "Mixtures of expert models aren’t unique to DeepSeek," he says.

i am at @aixventureshq for @chrmanning’s talk about deepseek r1. let’s find out what’s going on.
AIX Ventures Partner @chrmanning led an insightful discussion on the implications of DeepSeek and the future of the AI ecosystem at our HQ today: “There is no moat, you need resources: data, compute capabilities and smart people. Any idea that there are companies years ahead of…
