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 $15M 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
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
- Listen Labs, founded by Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann
- Mistral, founded by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample,
and Timothée Lacroix
- 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
Thinking