Active Pre-seed Ai / Ml Investors (2026)

The AI and Machine Learning sector is seeing unprecedented capital deployment. However, investors are increasingly looking past thin wrapper applications toward companies developing proprietary foundational models or highly defensible vertical AI solutions. Pre-seed investors primarily back the founders' vision, early prototypes, and initial market validation before substantial revenue exists.

Sector: AI / ML Stage: Pre-Seed + Geography + Check size

Lisheng Wang

AI / ML · $250K-$3M

TSVC is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 that identifies forward-thinking entrepreneurs

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Chris Anderson

AI / ML · Seed-stage investments

A2Z Venture is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in and partners with founders to create market-leading healthcare service busi...

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Sanjay Nath

AI / ML · $100K–$500K

Blume Ventures, co-founded by Sanjay Nath in 2010, bridges angel networks and institutional venture capital to back early-stage founders acr...

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Finian Tan

AI / ML

Vickers Venture Partners, founded by Dr. Finian Tan in 2005, invests in early-stage deep-tech companies and life sciences ventures globally...

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Allison Pickens

AI / ML · $250K–$1,000K

Allison Pickens invests in early-stage B2B AI and data infrastructure companies, positioning herself as a fractional COO and go-to-market ar...

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Erik Bruckner

AI / ML · $10K–$250K

Bruckner Ventures targets early-stage founders disrupting enormous market opportunities in frontier technology capable of generating outsize...

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Jason McBride

AI / ML · $750K–$3,000K

AIX Ventures, where Jason McBride is a Partner, invests exclusively in AI-native companies where artificial intelligence serves as the core...

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Michael Murphy

AI / ML

Rosecliff backs early-stage and innovative businesses with substantial growth potential, with Murphy emphasizing angel investing and long-te...

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Benjamin Levy

AI / ML · $100K–$6,000K

Benjamin Levy co-leads BootstrapLabs, an AI-first venture capital firm acquired by Ares Management in 2024 that has invested in Applied Arti...

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Aneel Ranadive

AI / ML · $1M - $5M

Soma Capital is a founder-friendly seed investor backing software and AI builders globally. The firm invests early in brilliant entrepreneur...

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Thomas Hendrix

AI / ML · $500K–$1,000K

Thomas Hendrix invests in critical dual-use technologies for defense, energy, space, and infrastructure at early stages (seed through Series...

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Tom Williams

AI / ML · Up to $250K pre-investment threshold

Tom Williams founded Heron Rock Capital as an exclusively first-check investor platform backing exceptional founders and difficult ideas bef...

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Nichola Eliovits

AI / ML · $0.4M deployed (per profile metadata)

Invests in early-stage AI and cybersecurity infrastructure companies. The fund focuses on pre-seed stage investments in artificial intellige...

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Nikolay Vyakhkhi

AI / ML · null

Agentic Builders is an early-stage venture fund investing from idea to pre-seed in AI-native founders building autonomous companies and agen...

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