Meet The Team
Investment Partners
AIX Ventures Investment Partners are fully immersed in the AI Ecosystem
Richard Socher
Founder, You.com
AIX Co-Founder
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Angel investor in 30+ startups in the Al space.
LP in 16 funds.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Currently CEO of you.com - a next-gen search engine.
Former startup founder/CEO of Metamind with successful exit to Salesforce.
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
Former Adjunct Professor at Stanford Computer Science.
Top 5 most cited NLP researcher in the world.
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
Former Salesforce Chief Scientist for four years.
Built & led 520-person team of Al engineering, research, & product at Salesforce.
Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
Pieter Abbeel
Founder, Covariant
UC Berkeley Professor
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Investor in 20+ early stage startups, many in stealth mode.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Co-founder covariant.ai, Co-founder of Gradescope (acquired).
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
UC Berkeley Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab.
Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, Advisor to OpenAI.
<span class=advisor>ADVISOR</span>
Preferred Networks, Sapling Intelligence, Deep Valley Labs, Dishcraft Robotics, Off World, TensorFlight, Traptic, onai, inzone.ai, SuperAnnotate, January
Anthony Goldbloom
Founder, Kaggle
Prolific Angel Investor
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Investor in 50+ AI startups.
Notable investments include: Weights & Biases, Flatfile, Coiled, Roboflow, Prefect.
LP in two venture funds.
<span class=founder>FOUNDER</span>
Founder and CEO of Kaggle, which used predictive modelling competitions to solve problems for organizations such as NASA, Ford, Deloitte, etc.
Kaggle became the world’s largest community of data scientists and was successfully acquired by Google in 2017.
Kaggle raised $16MM and included investors such as Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, and DCVC.
<span class=awards>AWARDS</span>
Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 in Technology
Christopher Manning
Stanford ML Professor
<span class=academia>ACADEMIA</span>
Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).
Inaugural Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science at Standford University.
Associate Director of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI).
Leader in applying Deep Learning to Natural Language Processing.
Most cited NLP research in the world.
<span class=advisor>ADVISOR</span>
Eloquent Labs, Lilt, Forethought.ai
HQ Team
Shaun Johnson
AIX Co-Founder & General Partner
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
VP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Lilt
VP of Product & Design at NimbleRx
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
UC Berkeley MBA
Stanford University MSEE
UT Austin BSEE
Shyam Mani
Principal
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
Co-Founder and CEO at DealDock (acq. by ThoughtFocus)
<span class=investor>INVESTOR</span>
Kleiner Perkins, focusing on enterprise software, data infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
Bain Capital, focusing on growth-stage developer infrastructure and cybersecurity
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
Northwestern University BA
Christina Sfakianos
Investor Relations
<span class=experience>INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE</span>
JPMorgan Chase & Company Institutional and Private Client relationship management
Lehman Brothers Institutional and Private Client relationship management
<span class=education>EDUCATION</span>
Loyola University Maryland