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We fund 25-30 teams/year.

A mix of students, dropouts, & grads.

We back builders with a unique perspective - regardless of industry.

We've funded software, hardware, robotics, bio, medtech + CPG.

Last Cycle - Jul 2026

Michigan + National University of Singapore

Renlei Labs

Multimodal Data for Physical AI

Duke

Serv Technologies

Vision AI for the Physical World

Berkeley + Stanford

Self

Competence Infrastructure for Autonomous AI

Harvard

Granite

Stealth

Rochester

Ansur

AI Workers for Legacy Industry

2026

CalTech

Mentlio (YC S26)

Engineering Intelligence for the AI-Coding

Georgetown

Verdant (YC S26)

AI GovTech

Georgia Tech + Columbia

GreenLight

AI OS for Clinical Trial Activation

Emory + Georgia Tech

Rounds

Elite Talent in the AI Era

North Carolina

Swarm

Agentic UX Simulation

Cornell

Pulse

Hedge Fund Research In Seconds

See All Investments (+7 more)

2025

Johns Hopkins

Auctor (YC X25)

AI for Enterprise Software Implementations

UCL + Purdue

Terac

AI Customer Research

UCLA

Specific Labs (YC F25)

Real World Data for AI

USC

Lemma (YC F25)

Production Monitoring for AI Agents

Illinois

Tandemn AI

Decentralized Inference Platform

Illinois

Avea Robotics (YC X26)

Software for Physical AI

See All Investments (+23 more)

2024

Emory + North Carolina

Doorstep

Solving Last 500 Feet of Delivery

Stanford

Contrario AI (YC W25)

AI-Powered Recruiting Marketplace

UChicago + Vanderbilt

Theta Neurotech

AI Epilepsy Seizure Prediction

Illinois

Pathlit

Full-Stack Agentic Systems in Minutes

Oxford + Stanford

Adviser

Turn Laptop into a Supercomputer

Michigan

Superbiome

Personalized Skincare from the Microbiome

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