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AI Consumer Partners

VC
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AI Consumer Partners is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in AI / ML, Consumer. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 3 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Portfolio
3 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed
Sectors
AI / ML, Consumer
HQ
San Francisco, CA
AUM
Not in our records
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

Portfolio

3+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Specializes in AI and consumer technology startups that leverage smart systems to create personalized consumer experiences.

How AI Consumer Partners invests

AI Consumer Partners is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on AI / ML, Consumer.

AI Consumer Partners typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.

AI Consumer Partners has backed 3 companies in our records, including Tailored, Alliance Consumer Growth, AI Fund.

Partners & Team

MS

Max Smith

Partner

Consumer Tech
AI
MB

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

gaming & interactive investments

Leads gaming & interactive investments at a top global VC ($29B+ AUM), backing founders behind platforms like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and League of Legends.

JG

James Groeneveld

CIO

ML systems engineering

ML systems engineer with experience at Character.AI and Google Brain; Harvard background.

AC

Alexander Chekan

Corporate Development

Health tech

Health tech operator supporting Flo’s growth to 75M+ monthly users and leading new product development across the Palta ecosystem.

AM

Avisha Mehra Naganath

Talent Partner

board recruiting
executive talent strategy

Operating at a $15B+ venture fund, leading board recruiting and executive talent strategy across 350+ portfolio companies.

JC

Josh Constine

Partner

TechCrunch Editor-at-Large
venture partner

Former TechCrunch Editor-at-Large with 3,000+ stories and 190+ stage interviews; now venture partner at SignalFire.

KG

Kylan Gibbs

CEO/Co-founder

AI

Co-founder & CEO at Inworld AI. Previously at DeepMind (Google) and Bain & Company. MPhil, University of Cambridge.

MC

Michael Carney

Senior Partner Manager

performance marketing
growth strategy

10+ years at Google helping startups scale with performance marketing & growth strategy; active advisor & angel supporting founders globally.

LB

Laurentiu Balasa

Co-Founder

consumer apps

Serial founder & angel investor behind 3B+ consumer app downloads, 8 companies founded, 4 successful exits.

RH

Romain Huet

Head of Developer Experience

developer platforms
tools

Works on developer platforms and tools at a global scale. Previously led developer experience at Stripe and helped relaunch Twitter’s dev platform.

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (3)

Other

TA

Tailored

AI
AL

Alliance Consumer Growth

Consumer·Growth

A venture capital firm focused on consumer brands.

AI

AI Fund

Artificial Intelligence·Early Stage

A venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence startups.

How to pitch AI Consumer Partners
  • Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Max Smith, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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