Best VCs for AI

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Co-founder of Hack VC, investing in crypto infrastructure and developer platforms. Believes the next wave of crypto adoption is driven by better developer tooling and infrastructure.

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Infrastructure, DeFi, and AI x crypto. Previously co-led Dragonfly before starting Hack VC.

Partner

Sequoia Capital

The defining voice of Sequoia's AI thesis and arguably the most influential AI investor-thinker in Silicon Valley. Co-authors a series of landmark essays with Pat Grady that have become the canonical

General Partner

Greylock Partners

Coined the 'Systems of Intelligence' framework in his landmark 2017 blog post 'The New Moats' — the idea that AI and data create competitive advantages by sitting between systems of record (databases)

General Partner, American Dynamism

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's American Dynamism practice — a $2.5B+ fund (expanded from $600M in 2023) backing companies that support national interests. Believes the most important companies of the next decade will b

General Partner, a16z crypto (Founder & Lead)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

The crypto conviction investor. Founded and leads a16z's crypto practice, which has deployed billions across five funds. Author of 'Read Write Own' (2024), arguing that blockchain enables a new era of

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's AI investments from the $5.2B AI allocation — the firm's largest sector bet ever. Anjney came to AI from an unusual path: he previously led a16z's crypto gaming investments, giving him de

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's infrastructure practice and is one of Silicon Valley's most technically credible VCs, having built VMware NSX and pioneered software-defined networking. Invests 'from markets in' rather t

Venture Partner

Benchmark

Sarah's investing worldview is built on a few interlocking beliefs: (1) The best consumer companies create compounding engagement loops where users do MORE over time, not less. She formalized this int

Founder

Gil Capital (Solo GP)

One of the largest and most successful solo GP funds ever ($1B+). Unusually dense hit rate across breakout companies — has invested in more unicorns than most institutional funds. Invests based on pat

CEO & Managing Director

General Catalyst

'Responsible innovation' thesis: technology should solve real problems for real people, not create consumer distractions. Strong health and enterprise focus. Author of 'Unscaled' — argues that technol

Co-Founder & Partner

Founders Fund

The original contrarian VC. 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.' Seeks companies that can become category-defining monopolies in markets others ignore. First principles thinking is

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Explicitly optimizes for ~70% failure rates to back 'black swan' outcomes. Actively seeks opportunities that appear 'crazy' to most of the market. Capital-intensive, science-heavy bets. Believes fusio

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Lux Capital

'Atoms, not bits.' The biggest opportunities are in companies that manipulate the physical world, not just software. Willing to fund multi-year R&D timelines. Just raised the firm's largest fund ever

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

Co-Founder & Partner

First Round Capital

The seed-stage specialist. Invests earliest and deepest at seed — First Round was one of the firms that pioneered institutional seed investing. Built First Round into a platform that punches well abov

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

BoxGroup

One of the most active and respected seed investors in NYC. Co-founded TechStars NYC (now Techstars NYC), deeply embedded in the New York startup ecosystem since its earliest days. Known for being hig

Investment Manager

Hashkey Capital

Investing in Web3 infrastructure and digital assets across Asia-Pacific at HashKey Capital. Focus on emerging blockchain ecosystems and cross-chain solutions.

CEO & President

Y Combinator

Builder-designer-investor. 'Make something people want' is the entire thesis — inherited from Paul Graham's YC founding philosophy and now amplified by Garry's builder ethos. Believes we're in a golde

Head of SEA & MENA

BNB Chain MVB (Central Asia)

Supporting blockchain innovation in Central Asia through BNB Chain's MVB program. Focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem in underserved markets.

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

The cloud computing investor. His annual 'State of the Cloud' report is the definitive industry reference for cloud/SaaS metrics. Bessemer's 'Cloud Atlas' benchmarking tool is used by thousands of Saa

Founder

ARI10

Building blockchain-based payment and loyalty solutions through ARI10, focused on bridging traditional retail with cryptocurrency.

Co-founder

Bloxico

Investing in blockchain enterprise solutions through Bloxico, focused on bringing blockchain technology to traditional industries in Ireland and Europe.

Managing Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Investing in deep tech and blockchain convergence at Big Pi Ventures, focused on the Greek and European tech ecosystem.

Founder

Canonical Crypto

Investing in crypto infrastructure and applications at Canonical Crypto. Focused on early-stage projects building foundational crypto technology.

Co-Founder & General Partner

Variant Fund

Investing in the ownership economy at Variant Fund. Pioneer of on-chain data analysis for crypto investment decisions. Believes data-driven analysis is key to identifying the best crypto investments.

Partner, Liquid Fund & Research

Hashkey Capital

Blockchain research and investment at HashKey Capital. Brings rigorous research methodology to evaluating crypto projects across the APAC region.

Investment Director

DFG (Digital Finance Group)

Investing in early-stage blockchain projects at DFG with a focus on DeFi, infrastructure, and emerging crypto ecosystems.

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Leads Kleiner Perkins' enterprise practice. Previously at Social Capital where he led the Slack and Figma investments — two of the most product-obsessed enterprise companies ever built. Strong product

Former President

Jump Crypto

Jump Crypto was the crypto arm of Jump Trading, one of the world's largest quantitative trading firms. Focused on building infrastructure, particularly cross-chain bridges and DeFi protocols.

Senior Investment Principal, Hivemind Capital Partners

Hivemind Capital

Phillips's overarching thesis is bridging the on-chain and off-chain worlds, primarily through market infrastructure — the 'unsexy backbone' of stablecoins, settlement rails, custody, tokenization, an

Founder & CEO

Polychain Capital

Crypto protocols are the native business model of the internet. Protocol-level investments, governance tokens, cross-chain infrastructure.

General Partner

Fenbushi Capital

General Partner at Fenbushi, focusing on infrastructure and DeFi investments. Bridges Western and Asian crypto ecosystems.

General Partner

a16z Crypto

AI x crypto intersection, decentralized compute, infrastructure. Believes in AI-blockchain convergence.

General Partner

Maximum Frequency Ventures

Operator-led crypto fund backing builders from idea to scale. Believes the hardest part of building in crypto isn't raising money — it's execution, and partners with founders as embedded co-builders r

Founder & Managing Partner

SNZ Holding

SNZ Holding invests in blockchain infrastructure and DeFi from Shanghai. Active in Polkadot and cross-chain ecosystems.

Partner

a16z Crypto

Enterprise crypto, stablecoins, RWA tokenization. Bridge between TradFi and DeFi.

Founder & Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

Crypto fund of funds and early-stage investing. Pioneer crypto VC.

Partner

Multicoin Capital

Infrastructure, bridges, interoperability. Cross-chain communication and multi-chain future.

Chairman

Hashkey Capital

Blockchain investment and incubation in Asia.

Co-Founder and CEO

Animoca Brands

Blockchain gaming and digital entertainment. Animoca Brands executive.

Principal

Blockwall VC

At Blockwall, Armani invests within a pre-seed and seed Web3 strategy focused on the infrastructure and applications shaping a transparent, secure digital future. His profile and writing point to part

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Halo XYZ

At Halo Capital, Howard backs early-stage companies across the pillars of the digital asset economy. Public descriptions of the firm emphasize a research- and data-driven approach, with interest spann

Venture Capital Firm

1752 VC

1752 VC positions itself as an early-stage platform for founders and investors rather than a traditional sector-only fund. Publicly, its leadership emphasizes backing companies at the intersection of