AI Frontier Models: venture funds and startups
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◆ Funds tracked
37
◆ Combined AUM
$29.6B
◆ Startups tracked
6
◆ Raised between them
$184M
◆ Overview
Fusion42 tracks 37 venture funds in AI Frontier Models with $29.6B in combined assets under management, and 6 startups that have raised $184M between them. The data below is live from the same database that powers Raise and Scout, and is continuously enriched as new rounds and funds are announced.
Part of the Raise fund database and the Scout startup database by Fusion42 — the same live data Arthur reasons over.
◆ Highlights
Active funds in AI Frontier Models include Taiwania Hive Ventures Southeast Asia Fund, SinergIA Ventures, Fund V, Accel AI Fund and GD1 Core Fund II; startups in AI Frontier Models include Visko, Diffraqtion, Deep Cogito, Blueprint and Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI). Each name links through to a full machine-readable profile — its backers, rounds and related Wire analysis — and the tables below list every entity Fusion42 tracks in AI Frontier Models, refreshed as new rounds and funds are announced.
◆ Funds in AI Frontier Models (37 tracked)
| Fund | Type | HQ |
|---|---|---|
| Taiwania Hive Ventures Southeast Asia Fund | vc | Taiwan |
| SinergIA Ventures | vc | Canada |
| Fund V | vc | United States |
| Accel AI Fund | vc | United States |
| GD1 Core Fund II | vc | New Zealand |
| AI Startup Support Program by KDDI & Google AI Futures Fund | vc | Japan |
| offshore RMB venture fund | vc | Hong Kong |
| Sorin Investments Fund II | vc | India |
| Odyssey Discovery I | vc | United Kingdom |
| Paradigm IV | vc | United States |
| Daybreak Core Fund | vc | United States |
| Menlo Ventures XVII | vc | United States |
| AV Seed Fund | vc | United States |
| Angel Invest Fund III | vc | Germany |
| Sabertooth Capital | vc | — |
| Xinglian Capital | vc | China |
| Variant | vc | United States |
| ARK Early-Stage Venture Fund | vc | United States |
| Diffusion | vc | United States |
| Sovereign AI | vc | United Kingdom |
| A-Star Fund III | vc | United States |
| WorldQuant Genesis | vc | Israel |
| Alumni Ventures Japan+US Bridge Fund | vc | United States |
| Iconiq | vc | United States |
| Zero Shot | vc | United States |
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| Runway Fund | corporate vc | United States |
| NovaWave Capital | corporate vc | United States |
| AI First Fund | vc | United States |
| Origin Ventures | vc | United States |
| Sequoia | vc | United States |
| BYT Capital | vc | India |
| Shengjing No.1 Fund | vc | China |
| Shanghai Tongge Phase II | vc | China |
| Anti Fund | vc | United States |
| Spark Capital | vc | United States |
| SBVA | vc | South Korea |
| Gobi-HKU Fund 1 | vc | Hong Kong |
◆ Startups in AI Frontier Models (6 tracked)
| Startup | Stage | HQ | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visko | pre-seed | United States | $10M |
| Diffraqtion | pre-seed | United States | $10M |
| Deep Cogito | series-a | United States | $43M |
| Blueprint | pre-seed | Canada | $1M |
| Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) | — | United States | — |
| INFIFORCE | series-a | China | $120M |
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