Strategic capital and support for exceptional AI founders at the earliest stages
We invest in bold founders building transformative AI companies
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We back founders with deep AI/ML expertise, strong technical backgrounds, and the ability to execute. We look for complementary skill sets, resilience, and a shared vision.
We invest in companies leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques to solve problems in fundamentally new ways. Defensibility through technical innovation is key.
We focus on companies targeting significant market opportunities with clear paths to substantial revenue and impact at scale.
We partner with founders solving important problems that matter. We believe the best companies create value for society while building sustainable businesses.
From first contact to term sheet in weeks, not months
Submit your pitch deck and brief introduction via our application form or warm intro from our network.
Day 1Our investment team reviews your materials within 3-5 business days. We provide feedback regardless of outcome.
Days 2-545-minute video call to discuss your vision, technology, market, and team. We dive deep into technical details.
Days 6-8For companies we're excited about, we conduct technical deep-dive with our AI experts and advisors.
Days 9-12If aligned, we present a term sheet with straightforward terms. We move quickly to close.
Days 13-14We provide strategic support to help you succeed
Introductions to top VCs for follow-on funding, strategic partners, enterprise customers, and talented candidates.
Regular office hours with our team on product, fundraising, hiring, go-to-market, and scaling challenges.
Access to AI researchers and engineers for architecture reviews, optimization strategies, and technical problem-solving.
Connect with exceptional engineers, researchers, and executives looking to join early-stage AI companies.
Access to industry benchmarks, market data, and insights from our portfolio of 150+ AI companies.
Support for international growth with connections to markets across North America, Europe, and Asia.
We invest across the AI landscape
MLOps platforms, model serving, training infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer tools for AI applications.
LLM applications, conversational AI, content generation, code generation, and multimodal foundation models.
Image recognition, video analysis, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and visual search applications.
AI-powered productivity tools, business intelligence, workflow automation, and vertical SaaS solutions.
Drug discovery, diagnostics, patient care, medical research, and healthcare operations optimization.
AI for renewable energy, carbon reduction, resource optimization, and environmental monitoring.
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"Seedling AI was our first institutional investor. Beyond capital, they provided invaluable introductions to customers and helped us refine our product strategy. We closed our Series A six months later."
"The technical expertise in Seedling's network was game-changing. Their advisors helped us solve critical ML infrastructure challenges that would have taken us months to figure out alone."
We're actively investing in exceptional AI founders. Share your vision with us.
Submit Your PitchWe typically respond within 5 business days