Fellows.Fund Launches To Fund AI Breakthroughs

Fellows.Fund

Ten AI leaders have formed Fellows.Fund, a Sunnyvale, California-based investment platform that want to help AI researchers and engineers launch companies.

The fund expects to support a half dozen companies this year by, among other things, facilitating talent acquisitions, customer introductions, and spearheading investor outreach.

In June 2021, the fund selected its first portfolio company: InsightFinder.com, an AI Ops company with patented technology to predict, diagnose, and avoid costly data center outages. The Fellows.Fund led a $2M investment alongside the founder of a $100B+ software company as well as over a dozen tech managers at Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, Amazon, and Airbnb.

The AI Brain Trust of Founding Fellows and Managing Partners includes:

Distinguished Fellows:

Stefano Corazza:
Head of Augmented Reality, VP & Fellow at Adobe; Founder and CEO of Mixamo (Acquired by Adobe).

Charles Elkan:
Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego; Former Managing Director and Global Head of Machine Learning at Goldman Sachs; Former Amazon Fellow.

Xuedong Huang:
Chief Technology Officer, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft Azure AI, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow.

Gang Hua:
Vice President and Chief Scientist at Wormpex AI Research: Blibee; former Chief Technical Advisor to Corporate Vice President and Director of Computer Vision Science at Microsoft; IEEE Fellow.

Vijay Narayanan:
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Chief AI Officer, and Head of Advanced Technology Group at ServiceNow; former Head of Content and Discovery Engineering at Pinterest.

Anshul Pande:
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Stanford Children’s Health; former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of ProMedica.

Haixun Wang:
VP of Engineering, Distinguished Scientist at Instacart; IEEE Fellow.

Lei Yang:
Vice President of Engineering at Twitter; former Head of Engineering at Quora.

Managing Partners

Alex Ren:
Managing Partner at Fellows Fund; Founder and CEO at TalentSeer.com, CrossMinds.ai.

Andrew Grinalds:
Managing partner at Fellows Fund; Chief Business Officer at TalentSeer.com; Deal Team at A16z and General Catalyst. Insurtech Founder.

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14/07/2021