As OpenAI's venture arm, they run Converge, a highly selective five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Targets hard, capital‑intensive sustainability technologies other VCs avoid, bridging solutions from developed markets into China and developing countries (energy, food, health, environment) to build traction back into developed markets. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; delivers a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Established by Arlan Hamilton while homeless, it requires one entrepreneur be a woman, person of color, treats capital allocation as activism, and argues under-the-radar entrepreneurs are mispriced assets create alpha. Notably, or LGBTQ.
Partner-led, technology-over-ego firm that publicly distributes memos, quantified roadmaps and its anti-roster, and presents apprenticeship mentorship plus early AI/developer-framework foresight.
Pre-seed investor geared toward India, led by a solo GP with operator and startup-studio experience, dual Pune–San Francisco HQ, 200+ invested companies and intentionally small-and-early focus. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Offers strictly non-dilutive term loans without warrants, tailored to B2B SaaS businesses in the $1M to $10M ARR range. The firm prioritizes capital-efficient, niche vertical SaaS companies and openly shares its revenue-financing frameworks and underwriting methodologies.