AI Ventures Fund — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($1.0M–$3.0M Checks)
AI Ventures Fund is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in AI / ML, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 18 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Other, SaaS
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-04
Pre-Seed, Seed
$1.0M – $3.0M
2+ companies
18 partners
Investment Thesis
AI Ventures Fund invests in early-stage startups utilizing AI/ML to solve complex business problems in the B2B SaaS space.
How AI Ventures Fund invests
AI Ventures Fund is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Other, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer.
AI Ventures Fund typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment.
AI Ventures Fund has backed 2 companies in our records, including Dashboards AI, AI Insights.
Partners & Team
Linda Lee
Talent Acquisition Partner
Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson
General Partner
Co-chairman & Co-founder of Workhelix
Israel Niezen
General Partner
CEO & Co-founder of Factored
Dr. Daniel Rock
General Partner
CTO & Co-founder of Workhelix
James Milin
General Partner
CEO & Co-founder of Workhelix
Dr. Andrew McAfee
General Partner
Co-chairman & Co-founder of Workhelix
Kian Katanforoosh
General Partner
CEO & Co-founder of Workera
Yichen Chu
General Partner
Co-founder of IrisGo
Andrew Ng
General Partner
Founded by Andrew Ng, AI Fund is a venture studio.
Dr. Mark Chrystal
General Partner
CEO & Co-founder of Profitmind
Jeffrey Lai
General Partner
CEO & Co-founder of IrisGo
Ellen Li
Chief Financial Officer
Eva Wang
Chief Operating Officer
Alexa Chen
GP
Michelle Lee
Executive Assistant
Natalia Urrego
Operations Manager
Jill Shih
General Manager
Ellie Jenkins
Partnership Manager
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Dashboards AI
AI Insights
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Linda Lee, Talent Acquisition Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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