# AIX Ventures

> AIX Ventures is an AI-focused venture fund making seed-stage investments in early-stage AI companies. It is run by active AI practitioners — including Richard Socher, Christopher Manning, and Anthony Goldbloom — who invest in and build alongside the founders they back.

AIX Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm led by some of the world's top AI practitioners who back early-stage companies developing industry-changing AI. The firm invests where AI is a core component of the product today, across the AI spectrum: NLP, computer vision, robotics, and more. AIX is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Investment focus
- Stage: PreSeed to Series A (early stage)
- Check size: typically $1M–$5M, with reserves for follow-on investments in Series A and beyond
- Leads rounds, and also partners with top seed-stage investors and angels
- Sectors: Consumer, Developer Tools & Data, Healthcare / Life Sciences, Manufacturing & Warehousing, and SaaS — sector-agnostic with a focus on AI-first companies
- Criteria: AI-focused companies with a strong founding team, industry insight, and early signs of product-market fit

## Team
- [Team](https://www.aixventures.com/team): Partners and operators, including Richard Socher (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Anthony Goldbloom (AI Partner), Christopher Manning (AI Partner), Krish Ramadurai (Partner), Jason McBride (Partner), Nick Crance (Partner), Sara Tatman (Senior EA & Operations), and Ellie Wheeler (Chief Operating Officer)

## Portfolio
- [Portfolio](https://www.aixventures.com/portfolio): 70+ AI companies backed by AIX Ventures, including Hugging Face, Perplexity, Weights & Biases, You.com, Windsurf, Replicate, Ambience, Recursive, TollBit, and Wispr Flow

## Core pages
- [About](https://www.aixventures.com/about): Fund background and thesis — a venture firm where leaders in AI push the field forward together
- [FAQ](https://www.aixventures.com/faq): Investment criteria, stages, check sizes, diligence process, and portfolio support
- [Newsroom](https://www.aixventures.com/newsroom): Press coverage, announcements, and news from AIX Ventures and its portfolio
- [Contact](https://www.aixventures.com/contact): How to reach the fund

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