Scaling human potential with artificial intelligence

An AI-native venture fund since 2017,
born from the science of minds and machines

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We are the first capital when it's just you and your vision

Quince

Democratizing luxury goods through its direct and automated supply chain.

Automated Workflows

Cusp

Foundation models for molecular and materials discovery.

Autonomy

Path

Autonomous welding and manufacturing robots.

Autonomy

OpenArt

Comprehensive visual storytelling platform, redefining who can create.

Intelligent Collaboration

Entire

Developer platform built for human and agent collaboration.

Scalable Infrastructure

Tigris Data

Globally distributed, S3-compatible, object storage service.

Scalable Infrastructure

Mem0

Memory for LLMs, enabling rapid deployment of personalized apps.

Scalable Infrastructure

Vizcom

Product design platform enabling designers to bring their visions to life.

Intelligent Collaboration

Thinking Machines

Transformative AI products pushing the boundary of possibility.

Autonomy

Sakana

Research lab creating nature-inspired AI.

Scalable Infrastructure

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Basis Set AI Fellows

Solve hard problems with AI. Impact product, engineering and strategy inside the firm and at our highest-growth companies.

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Basis Set is a group of very smart, talented, high conviction investors. I think they have a very good knack for people and they’re willing to bet on big ideas. They’ve been 100% supportive of Quince and they’ve helped reinforce our central value proposition and made our business better.

Sid Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of Quince

Working with Basis Set is incredible. They’re the first people I call anytime I have a question. They’re down to earth and great to work with.

Andy, Co-founder & CEO of Path Robotics

Working with Basis Set has been phenomenal from day one. They’re always there when we need them, and that’s really the best thing you can do as an early-stage fund.

Alex, Co-founder of Rasa

Basis Set is an extension of my family, of my team. It’s been amazing to work with them. It feels like a real, true partnership.

Jenny, Co-founder & CEO of Ergeon

It’s really like a family, people that I can trust. I know when things are down, they are my first call.

Desmond, Co-founder & CEO of Workstream

AI is transforming venture capital

We believe the best way to find and support AI companies is by being one ourselves.

We are an AI-native firm built on a modern machine learning stack, including the latest foundation models and our own portfolio of tools like Parasail, Tigris, Spice AI, and Simular.
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We are your first customer, sales rep, bug reporter, recruiter and more.

Meet the team

Our 24/7 founder
concierge team

Dr. Lan Xuezhao

Founder & Partner

Pascal

AI Partner

Rachel Wong

CTO & Partner

Wilson Kyi

Partner

Jennifer Lee

General Counsel & Partner

JB Michel

Venture Partner

Diving deep to understand minds and machines

Announcing our latest $250M Fund IV

What Makes a Successful Founder?

Scaling human potential with artificial intelligence

We are the first capital when it's just you and your vision

Quince

Cusp

Path

OpenArt

Entire

Tigris Data

Mem0

Vizcom

Thinking Machines

Sakana

Basis Set AI Fellows

Basis Set is a group of very smart, talented, high conviction investors. I think they have a very good knack for people and they’re willing to bet on big ideas. They’ve been 100% supportive of Quince and they’ve helped reinforce our central value proposition and made our business better.

Working with Basis Set is incredible. They’re the first people I call anytime I have a question. They’re down to earth and great to work with.

Working with Basis Set has been phenomenal from day one. They’re always there when we need them, and that’s really the best thing you can do as an early-stage fund.

Basis Set is an extension of my family, of my team. It’s been amazing to work with them. It feels like a real, true partnership.

It’s really like a family, people that I can trust. I know when things are down, they are my first call.

We believe the best way to find and support AI companies is by being one ourselves.

Our 24/7 founder concierge team

Diving deep to understand minds and machines

Basis Set AI Fellowship

Tariff, Chaos, and the Opportunity for Startups

Beyond B2C: The Rise of Infrastructure-First Consumer Companies

Seen Health raises $22M Series A for culturally-focused PACE

Nvidia Invests in Japanese AI Company’s $100 Million Funding Round

Under 30 Startup Slope Scores A $65 Million Investment From One Of The World’s Biggest Banks

Didero is using AI to solve supply chain management at mid-market companies

Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers

Norm Ai Raises $27 Million for AI-Powered Regulatory Compliance Platform

Exclusive: Embedded accounting startup Teal raises $8M

Developers can automate code compliance while programming, thanks to Drata and oak9

Autonomous agtech robotics startup nabs funding as it gears up for expansion

FarmWise was named to Forbes’ annual AI 50 list. Future Farming also covered the launch of the company’s next-generation product

nSave announced its $4M Seed round with TechCrunch

Talofa announced its $6.3M Seed round with VentureBeat and Apple continues to feature the company

Abacus, DataGrail, Drata, Ergeon, Snappr, TuringAI and Verge Genomics were named as “America’s Best Startup Employers,” by Forbes

Rasa announced its $30M Series C in TechCrunch

Can Large Language Models (LLMs) predict founder success?

Quince was also called out by Business Insider for having one of the fastest growth rates of any brand, period

Norm AI Raised $11.1 Million With Aim to Aid Compliance Chiefs

Recraft announced its $12M Series A in TechCrunch

Sakana announced its $30M Seed round in Bloomberg

Verge Genomics earned coverage for the launch of its Phase 1 ALS trial

Slope announced $30M in additional funding from Union Square and Sam Altman (among others) in Forbes

Series officially came out of stealth and announced $25M in funding in TechCrunch

Trucking Operations: Exploring opportunities to improve trucking operations with machine intelligence.

Global Customs: Exploring opportunities to improve global customs with machine intelligence.

Maritime Transport: Exploring opportunities to improve maritime transport with machine intelligence.

Real Estate: Exploring opportunities to improve real estate with machine intelligence.

Agriculture: Exploring opportunities to improve agriculture with machine intelligence

Open Source: Exploring opportunities to commercialize open source by leveraging data.

Trade Finance: Exploring opportunities to improve trade finance with machine intelligence

Vertical APIs: Exploring opportunities to enable vertical APIs with machine intelligence

Outsourced Services: Exploring opportunities to improve outsourced services with machine intelligence

Oil & Gas: Exploring opportunities to improve oil and gas with machine intelligence

Legal Services: Exploring opportunities to improve legal services with machine intelligence

B2B Marketplaces: Exploring opportunities to improve B2B marketplaces with machine intelligence

Entendre Joins MoonPay to Build the Agentic Financial Infrastructure

PgDog’s $5.5M Seed and Scaling Postgres

Basata's $21M Series A and the Defense of Healthcare Admins

Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2)

The Future of Agents is Open Source (part 1 of 2)

Parasail's $32M Series A and the Democratization of AI Inference

Daydream's $15M Series A, Growth-as-a-Service

Neion's $11M Seed, A Better Way to Make Medicine

Context is All Your Company Needs

The New Meaning of 'Developer'

Reflow’s $15M Seed, Bringing Workflow Intelligence to AI Ops

Clearly AI’s $8.4M Seed + RSA Sandbox Award for Scalable Security Reviews

Entire’s $60M Seed and the Future of Agentic Development

OpenArt’s Series A and the Acceleration of Infrastructure-First Consumer

Announcing our latest $250M Fund IV

Agents Broke Our Old Infrastructure. Now We Get to Rebuild It.

Our Favorite AI Workflows of 2025

Announcing DataLane's $27M Seed and Series A

Announcing Simular's $27M Seed and Series A

Announcing Flint and Mem0’s Series As

The New Moat is the Method

Building With Agents, Not Code

Our 24/7 founder
concierge team