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Who invests in NeoLabs

95 investors appear on the disclosed rounds of the labs we track: 59 venture firms, plus chipmakers, big-tech funds and angels. Nvidia backs more of them than anyone else (23 labs), usually alongside a lead rather than as one. Andreessen Horowitz has led the most rounds (7). The map below shows which investor backs which lab, and in which research area. A pink mark means the investor led the round; green means it took part.

95investors
59venture firms
26corporate & strategic
22back 3+ labs

Investors by research area

Investors with two or more labs. One mark per lab; hover for the name, click to open.

SuperintelligenceSelf-improving AIWorld modelsRoboticsAI for scienceReasoningCodingComputer useOpen frontier modelsNew architecturesComputeHuman-centricVoiceBiologyNvidiaSafe Superintelligence (led)Thinking Machines LabIneffable IntelligenceRecursive SuperintelligenceMirendilWorld LabsDecartOdysseySkild AIPhysical IntelligenceGeneralist AIDyna RoboticsLila SciencesPeriodic LabsPoolside (led)Reflection AI (led)Nous ResearchSakana AIInception LabsHarkHumans&River AIEvolutionaryScaleSequoiaSafe Superintelligence (led)Ineffable Intelligence (led)Decart (led)Skild AIPhysical IntelligenceHarmonic (led)MagicStandard Intelligence (led)Reflection AIApplied ComputeAndreessen HorowitzSafe Superintelligence (led)Thinking Machines Lab (led)Mirendil (led)World Labs (led)Periodic Labs (led)TypeSafe AI (led)Luma AIBlack Forest Labs (led)AMDThinking Machines LabRecursive SuperintelligenceWorld LabsEssential AILiquid AI (led)HarkRiver AILuma AIRadical VenturesInherent (led)World Labs (led)Decart (led)Veeda AI (led)Generalist AI (led)Prime Intellect (led)Latent Labs (led)Khosla VenturesGeneral Intuition (led)Veeda AI (led)Genesis AI (led)Symbolica (led)Sakana AI (led)LightspeedIneffable Intelligence (led)Skild AI (led)Reflection AI (led)Ricursive Intelligence (led)CartesiaLux CapitalPhysical Intelligence (led)CognitionApplied ComputeSakana AI (led)EvolutionaryScale (led)Jeff BezosSkild AI (led)Physical Intelligence (led)Project PrometheusPeriodic LabsHumans&GoogleSafe SuperintelligenceIneffable IntelligenceEssential AISakana AIIsomorphic LabsThrive CapitalPhysical Intelligence (led)Essential AIChai DiscoveryIsomorphic Labs (led)General CatalystGeneral IntuitionSkild AISymbolicaRiver AI (led)OpenAIPhysical IntelligenceIsaraChai DiscoveryMerge LabsKleiner PerkinsMirendil (led)Harmonic (led)Cartesia (led)CRVSkild AIDyna Robotics (led)Reflection AI (led)Index VenturesInherent (led)Enigma (led)CartesiaNEAWorld Labs (led)CuspAISakana AI (led)DST GlobalSafe Superintelligence (led)Periodic LabsReflection AIEric SchmidtPeriodic LabsMagic (led)Reflection AIGV (Google Ventures)Recursive Superintelligence (led)Humans&Isomorphic LabsMenlo VenturesSkild AIPrime IntellectInception Labs (led)AmazonOdysseyDyna RoboticsEvolutionaryScaleBenchmarkDecart (led)Applied Compute (led)EclipseGenesis AI (led)Noetive (led)Founders FundCognition (led)Prime Intellect (led)Ribbit CapitalEnigma (led)Harmonic (led)8VCGeneralist AI (led)CognitionJane StreetThinking Machines LabMagic (led)Salesforce VenturesHarkBlack Forest Labs (led)AccelThinking Machines LabPeriodic LabsAndrej KarpathyStandard IntelligenceInception LabsARK InvestLila SciencesHarkCiscoThinking Machines LabWorld LabsElad GilPeriodic LabsCognition

Capital led

Sum of disclosed round sizes where the investor was named as lead or co-lead. Co-led rounds count in full for each lead.

Venture

Radical Ventures

7 labs · led 7

Khosla Ventures

5 labs · led 5

General Catalyst

4 labs · led 1

Kleiner Perkins

3 labs · led 3

CRV

3 labs · led 2

Index Ventures

3 labs · led 2

NEA

3 labs · led 2

Menlo Ventures

3 labs · led 1

Benchmark

2 labs · led 2

Eclipse

2 labs · led 2

Founders Fund

2 labs · led 2

Ribbit Capital

2 labs · led 2

8VC

2 labs · led 1

ARK Invest

2 labs

ARCH Venture Partners

1 lab · led 1

Braidwell

1 lab · led 1

Coatue

1 lab · led 1

Collective Global

1 lab · led 1

DCVC

1 lab · led 1

Emergence Capital

1 lab · led 1

First Round Capital

1 lab · led 1

Foresite Capital

1 lab · led 1

Greenoaks

1 lab · led 1

Greycroft

1 lab · led 1

March Capital

1 lab · led 1

NFDG

1 lab · led 1

Parkway

1 lab · led 1

Sofinnova Partners

1 lab · led 1

Spark Capital

1 lab · led 1

TQ Ventures

1 lab · led 1

1789 Capital

1 lab

Alumni Ventures

1 lab

ARPA-H

1 lab

Atlassian

1 lab

B Capital

1 lab

Bain Capital Ventures

1 lab

Brookfield

1 lab

CapitalG

1 lab

Conviction

1 lab

Craft Ventures

1 lab

Flagship Pioneering

1 lab

Government of Canada

1 lab

Government of Germany

1 lab

HSG (HongShan)

1 lab

Ian Goodfellow

1 lab

Innovation Endeavors

1 lab

Jeff Dean

1 lab

Mayfield

1 lab

Threshold Ventures

1 lab

Westly Group

1 lab

Y Combinator

1 lab

Corporate & strategic

GV (Google Ventures)

3 labs · led 1

Jane Street

2 labs · led 1

Salesforce Ventures

2 labs · led 1

AMP PBC

1 lab · led 1

Cathay Innovation

1 lab · led 1

HUMAIN

1 lab · led 1

SoftBank

1 lab · led 1

Autodesk

1 lab

Bpifrance

1 lab

Citi

1 lab

Intel

1 lab

JPMorgan

1 lab

LG Technology Ventures

1 lab

Macquarie Capital

1 lab

Microsoft

1 lab

Qualcomm

1 lab

Samsung

1 lab

SAP

1 lab

ServiceNow

1 lab

Temasek

1 lab

Angels

Eric Schmidt

3 labs · led 1

Daniel Gross

1 lab · led 1

Nat Friedman

1 lab · led 1

Andrew Ng

1 lab

Fei-Fei Li

1 lab

Ron Conway

1 lab

Stanley Druckenmiller

1 lab

Investors are read from the round records in data/labs.json, normalised through one alias table. A lab with a tracker valuation and no disclosed round contributes nothing here, which is why some well-known backers are missing. Add a round with its source.