AI

AI First Capital

VC
Palo Alto, CAWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

AUM

$365M

Portfolio

8+ companies

Team

7 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

AI First Capital specializes in early-stage companies using artificial intelligence to solve industry-specific problems, focusing on verticalized AI applications.

Meet the Team

NT

Neville Teagarden

Co-Founder and General Partner

enterprise applied AI software
machine learning
semantics
robotics
natural language
analytics
EC

Elizabeth Cook

Managing Partner, North America

synthetic biology
AI healthcare
deep tech
entrepreneurial ecosystems
SS

Scott Spangler

Managing Partner & COO

capital formation
investor relations
AI strategy
wealth preservation
AK

Anil Kapoor

Founding Partner

AI
Vertical SaaS
GP

Gene Podsiadlo

Senior Strategic Advisor, Special Limited Partner

JS

Josh Sutton

Co-Founder and Advisory Partner

AM

Andrew Maus

Managing Director, North America

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
SaaS
Other
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Hardware

Portfolio Companies (8)

Other

KI

KitchenAI

AI, RestaurantTech
IN

InsightDining

HospitalityTech
CO

Cognition Labs

AI/dev tools·early-stage·Soma Capital

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

AI software engineering

IR

Ironclad

legaltech/AI·early-stage·Soma Capital

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

contract management

ME

Mercor

HR/AI·early-stage·Soma Capital

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

AI talent platform

HA

Hamming AI

dev tools·pre-seed·Pioneer Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

AI coding tools

CO

Cofactr

enterprise AI·pre-seed·Pioneer Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

AI operations platform

EZ

EzDubs

media/AI·pre-seed·Pioneer Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

AI video dubbing

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