About This Fund
AI Fund is a venture studio founded by Andrew Ng — co-founder of Google Brain, former Chief Scientist at Baidu, and a pioneering figure in applied artificial intelligence — dedicated to accelerating the adoption of AI by co-founding transformative companies from the ground up. The studio has raised over $365 million across two vehicles: an inaugural $175 million fund launched in 2018 and AI Venture Fund II, an oversubscribed $190 million fund that reached its final close in May 2025. Backed by a combination of leading venture capital institutions and strategic corporate investors, AI Fund has established a differentiated position as one of the world's most active AI-focused company builders.
Unlike conventional venture capital, AI Fund does not write checks into existing companies: it partners with entrepreneurs at the ideation stage to co-found businesses alongside them, contributing deep AI research expertise, market validation support, engineering teams, talent acquisition, and access to a global network of corporate partners. The studio focuses on the application and software infrastructure layers of the AI stack, leveraging large language models and agentic AI to create new businesses across financial services, renewable energy, future of work, education, logistics, healthcare, and developer tools. AI Venture Fund II attracted a notable LP base of strategic corporate investors including The AES Corporation, HP Inc., Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corporation, QBE, and TELUS Global Ventures, alongside venture institutions Sequoia Capital and NEA.
Since inception, AI Fund has co-founded approximately 35 portfolio companies across multiple verticals. Notable ventures include Gaia Dynamics, which provides real-time tariff compliance intelligence for businesses navigating complex trade environments; SkyFire AI, a platform enabling AI-powered drone deployment for first responders and enterprise customers; and Profitmind, an automated competitive pricing tool that enables retailers to optimise product margins at scale. The studio's systematic approach to addressing early-stage company-building challenges — from product-market fit validation to technical architecture to go-to-market strategy — has enabled portfolio companies to reach commercial traction significantly faster than typical venture-backed startup timelines.