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Differential Ventures

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Differential Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage, data-centric B2B tech companies across four primary investment themes: AI-Powered Business, Advancing the ML Technology Stack, The Future of Engineering and Infrastructure, and Responsible Data Management and Information Analysis.

Check Size

$250K - $3M

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

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Investment Thesis

Differential Ventures is an AI-native venture capital fund led by data scientists and entrepreneurs, investing in the data-driven economy. The firm believes that data is a foundational resource and invests in solutions that transform how businesses operate and succeed in tomorrow’s markets. Their approach combines decades of operational, technical, and investing experience to support founders through their toughest challenges, going beyond just being a name on a cap table.

What Sets Them Apart

  • Founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs with deep technical expertise, including a co-founder from Renaissance Technologies
  • Team has decades of operational, technical and investing experience with exits exceeding $1.3 billion
  • Equally comfortable helping with critical hires as with solving complex technical hurdles
  • Deep understanding of ML/AI from both the research and commercialization perspective
  • Focused specifically on data-centric companies rather than general tech investing
  • Initial check size flexibility from $250,000-$3,000,000 with allocated reserves for follow-on capital

Portfolio Highlights

Agnostiq

Quantum Computing|Engineering Infrastructure

Aktus

Ai Powered Business

Armilla

Responsible Data Management

Ask Polly

Ai Powered Business

Bazze

Responsible Data Management|Advancing Ml Tech Stack

Carver Edison

Fintech|Ai Powered Business

Centrum AI

Ai Powered Business

Circuit Mind

Ai Powered Business|Enterprise Tech

+ 31 more companies in their portfolio

Investment Team

7 Partners at Differential Ventures

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