CONVICTION
Conviction is a new venture firm purpose-built to serve AI-Native, "Software 3.0" companies. We believe we are extremely early in the translation of powerful AI models to powerful products that transform industries.
We partner with the most important companies of tomorrow with $1 to $25M checks.
We like to invest early, and are often the first investor.
We have the courage of our own convictions.
We have a wide and deep network that we put to work in service of our portfolio companies. We understand the domain and are hands-on. We like to work with people who are smart, enthusiastic, have depth, and move fast. Our goal is to help the founders we work with become their most ambitious selves.
People
- Sarah Guo
- Mike Vernal
- Pranav Reddy
- Bella Garcia-Camargo
- Niki Nguyen (Talent)
- Vivian Nguyen (Talent)
- Christy Hogue (EA/Ops)
- Cami Brunjes (EA)
Portfolio
We have backed engineers, researchers, product folks, domain experts, and dropouts. We gravitate towards technical teams who build with velocity and pragmatism. We're lucky to already be in business with extraordinary founders and companies, like the ones listed below and others still in stealth.
- Baseten, founded by Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, and Phillip Howes
- Cartesia, founded by Karan Goel, Albert Gu, Brandon Yang, Arjun Desai, and Chris Re
- Cognition Labs, founded by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan
- Culminate, founded by Rex Guo and Diane Lin
- Distributed Spectrum, founded by Alex Wulff, Isaac Struhl, and Ben Harpe
- Essential, founded by Ashish Vashwani and Niki Parmar
- Foundry, founded by Jared Quincy Davis
- Harvey, founded by Gabe Pereyra and Winston Weinberg
- HeyGen, founded by Joshua Xu and Wayne Liang
- Latent, founded by Rish Jain and Sri Somasundaram
- Listen Labs, founded by Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann
- Mistral, founded by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix
- Open Evidence, founded by Daniel Nadler and Zachary Ziegler
- RunSybil, founded by Ari Herbert-Voss
- Sierra, founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor
- Sola, founded by Jessica Wu and Neil Desmukh
Projects
- Embed, a grant program for early-stage AI founders
- Mixture of Experts, a recruiting event to help people join the breakout startups early
- No Priors, a podcast with AI researchers & builders
- Commit, a fellowship for early-career AI builders