People in AI

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Amazon founder and backer of Perplexity AI.

Reid Hoffman

Investor

Cofounder at LinkedIn

Venture capitalist and LinkedIn cofounder who made five predictions about AI in 2026, early backer of OpenAI, and investor at Greylock Partners.

Announced the integration enabling direct import of Claude Code UI into Figma's editable design frames.

Predicted the future of AI and invested in companies like Sardine based on insights from deep research into AI trends.

Backed Periodic Labs with investment in their $300M seed round.

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Venture capitalist who valued Chrome at ten times the Perplexity bid or more.

Analyst discusses AI infrastructure demand growth and frames current moment as early stage of AI revolution.

CEO views Meta's hiring freeze as natural resting point after nine-figure acquisition spending

Investor in Field AI through his investment fund Gates Frontier.

Mentioned as deepening investment in Replit's Series C round.

Georges Harik

Investor

Co-founder at SV Angel

Led seed round for humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab focused on AI that strengthens relationships and organizations.

Tina He

Investor

Investor at Pace Capital

Wrote about businesses that will dominate when AI agents become primary users and what infrastructure AI cannot replace.

Stated that all the big AI labs are building RL environments in-house and are also looking at third-party vendors for high-quality environments.

Elad Gil

Investor

Backed Periodic Labs with investment in their $300M seed round.

Sarah Guo

Investor

Venture Capitalist

Interviewed Eric Zelikman on her podcast about his views on language models and his new AI startup.

Led Groq's latest financing round and confirmed NVIDIA's $20 billion acquisition of Groq's assets.

Eric Bahn

Investor

Co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund

Predicted AI will have a big impact on enterprise workforce in 2026, expecting automation of both repetitive and logic-based roles.

Led a $25 million investment in Quilter, an AI company that develops software for printed circuit boards, and discussed the challenges of predicting OpenAI's competitive moves.

Argued that traditional input methods like keyboards are becoming outdated as AI systems become more agentic.

Traveled to London to meet David Silver soon after his departure from Google DeepMind to negotiate leading his $1 billion fundraise.

Traveled to London to meet David Silver soon after his departure from Google DeepMind to negotiate leading his $1 billion fundraise.

Technology investor who characterized the bid as a stunt far below Chrome's true value.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Called Perplexity's bid unsolicited and not funded, commenting on the offer's credibility.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Raised concerns about investor overexcitement in AI sector

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Analyst distinguishes current AI boom from dotcom bubble, citing companies with earnings.

Venture partner at Benchmark discussing how AI product experiences will improve as technology matures and product teams become more important than technical teams.

Iconic Silicon Valley investor and Floodgate cofounder with early investments in Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft, interviewed about AI startup investing strategy.

General partner at Spark Capital with early investments in Discord, Descript, and AI note-taking app Granola, interviewed about AI investing thesis.

Sequoia partner joining ElevenLabs' board as part of $500M funding round

Founder and managing partner expects companies will redirect labor budgets to AI spending, resulting in aggressive layoffs impacting U.S. employment.

Managing director agrees that 2026 budgets will shift resources from labor to AI investments.

Venture investor predicts 2026 will mark transition from AI-as-tool to AI-as-automation, delivering human labor displacement.

Partner at Black Operator Ventures mentioned as part of investor survey on AI labor impact.

Partner at Quiet Capital leading the Series A round and joining Orchard's board; quoted on the company providing 'ground truth' for agriculture.

Facebook co-founder and billionaire backer of Anthropic, whom OpenAI alleges funds opposition groups.

eBay founder and billionaire backer of Anthropic, whom OpenAI alleges funds opposition groups.

Provided exclusive access to Beacon AI data covering 80M+ organizations and 650M+ employees.

Early investor who joined Cognition full-time as Founder & General Partner

Early investor from Neo who joined Cognition full-time as Partner

Head of AI policy at a16z who published arguments against state AI bills citing Commerce Clause concerns.

Chief legal officer at a16z who co-authored blog post arguing state AI bills may violate the Commerce Clause.

Managing Director at General Catalyst who led Eudia's $100M Series A, discussing the new wave of AI-augmented labor companies.

Managing partner and co-founder of lead investor Prysm Capital explaining their investment thesis.

Business angel investor participating in the pre-seed funding round.

Analyst questioned whether the deal represents genuine collaboration or political theater, noting the key uncertainty is whether Nvidia will manufacture at Intel's fabs.

Partner at investment firm that participated in Cerebras' $1.1 billion funding round

Referenced for his commentary on AI tooling being dominated by free open-source solutions

Founder of Altimeter Capital predicts Nvidia will continue to compound growth over the next 3-4 years as AI becomes a national security priority.