Richard Socher

Investment Partner at AIX Ventures · Joined 2021

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Biography

Richard Socher is a co-founder and Investment Partner at AIX Ventures. He is the founder and CEO of the AI search engine You.com, and previously founded MetaMind, which was acquired by Salesforce, after which he served as Salesforce's Chief Scientist and built and led a 520-person AI engineering organisation. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and is among the most-cited natural language processing researchers in the world. As an angel he has invested in more than 30 AI startups, including an early investment in Athelas. AIX portfolio companies he is associated with include Hugging Face, Perplexity and Weights & Biases.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Hugging FacePerplexityWeights & BiasesYou.comAthelas

Career Timeline

2021
Co-founds AIX Ventures; Fund I closes at $50M in October 2021

Sources & References

AIX Ventures team page ↗VentureBeat - Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures ↗