Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Lena Belogolova

Venture Partner

Bryan Beshore

Venture Partner

Rajiv Bhat

Venture Partner

Amitav Chakravartty

Venture Partner

Bryant Chou

Venture Partner

Andrew DSouza

Venture Partner

Michael Dilworth

CFO and Partner

Kshitij Dixit

Venture Partner

Cobi Druxerman

Venture Partner

Luqui Díaz

Venture Partner

Steli Efti

Venture Partner

James Fong

Venture Partner

Taro Fukuyama

Venture Partner

Jarret Glasscock

Venture Partner

Jason Gray

Managing Partner

Alanna Gregory

Venture Partner

Ranvir Gujral

Venture Partner

Joshua Halickman

Venture Partner

Taylor Halliday

Venture Partner

Michael Heinrich

Venture Partner

Nancy Hua

Venture Partner

Albert Huang MD

Venture Partner

Faiz Jalia

Analyst

Steven Johnston

Venture Partner

Beth Kolko

Venture Partner

Jackie Kong

Venture Partner

Kwin Hultman Kramer

Venture Partner

Greg Kress

Venture Partner

Ashwin Kumar

Venture Partner

Tiffany Kuo

Venture Partner

Vanessa Lee

Venture Partner

Ilya Lichtenstein

Venture Partner

Evan Lodge

Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Richard Ma

Venture Partner

Ritik Malhotra

Venture Partner

Rohit Malhotra

Venture Partner

Matthew McDonald

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Will Mitchell

Venture Partner

Francesco Mosconi

Venture Partner

Anthony Nemitz

Venture Partner

Victor Ng

Venture Partner

Peter Nixey

Venture Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Jon Parker

Venture Partner

Amit Patel

Venture Partner

Puja Patel

Venture Partner

David Rabie

Venture Partner

Saad Rizvi

Venture Partner

Juan Salcedo

Venture Partner

Matt Schiller

Venture Partner

William Schlacks

Venture Partner

Robert Schultz

Venture Partner

Jonathan Schwartz

Venture Partner

Martin Shen

Venture Partner

Bradley Siegler

Venture Partner

Vikram Somasundaram

Venture Partner

Laks Srini

Venture Partner

Thomas Steinacher

Venture Partner

Steven Stewart

Venture Partner

Evan Stites-Clayton

Venture Partner

Brad Stronger

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Ted Suzman

General Partner

Tim Suzman

General Partner

Jonathan Tang

Venture Partner

Bryan Wilcox

Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Ray Wu

Venture Partner

Andrew Yaroshevsky

Venture Partner

Richard Yu

Venture Partner

Winston Zhang

Venture Partner

Ti Zhao

Venture Partner

Past deals in Data Mining

Unsloth

Seed Round in 2024
Unsloth is an AI startup dedicated to enhancing the accessibility of artificial intelligence for users across various sectors. The company has developed an open-source fine-tuning and training platform that significantly accelerates the process of customizing large language models (LLMs), making them 2.2 times faster and reducing VRAM usage by 62%. This all-in-one solution is designed to assist scientists and researchers in diverse fields, including skin cancer prediction, DNA sequencing, vaccine development, environmental conservation, and space research. By providing tools that enable the rapid creation of accurate custom models, Unsloth empowers users to analyze large datasets more effectively, thus facilitating advancements in critical areas of research and innovation.

expand.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Expand.ai specializes in transforming any website into a type-safe API, facilitating seamless and secure integration. Its platform, a web scraping tool, offers customizable schemas, rigorous data quality checks, and high-speed extraction capabilities, enabling developers and businesses to efficiently access and integrate reliable web data, thereby reducing operational complexities.

Unbound Security

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.

NetworkOcean

Pre Seed Round in 2024
NetworkOcean specializes in the development and operation of underwater data centers, focusing on environmental sustainability and enhanced internet performance. By utilizing submerged installations, the company aims to eliminate the use of freshwater and significantly reduce power consumption, claiming reductions of up to 30%. These data centers are engineered to provide lower latency, making them particularly well-suited for demanding tasks such as GPU workloads in artificial intelligence applications. NetworkOcean's innovative approach not only enhances hardware reliability but also lowers operating costs, thereby offering a more efficient solution in the data center industry.

Hamming AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products.

Octolane AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Octolane AI is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its platform processes real-time data from diverse sources such as healthcare and sales, enabling businesses to cleanse, analyze, and cross-check vast datasets for informed decision-making.

Infinity AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Infinity AI is a San Francisco-based startup specializing in accelerating AI model development using synthetic data. Its platform enables precise control over data distributions, allowing engineers to generate hundreds of labeled videos from a single real-world input. Infinity combines physics-based simulations and generative techniques to achieve this.

Argon AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Argon AI is a platform that empowers biopharmacy and life sciences professionals to perform complex, data-driven tasks using natural language. It enables users to obtain detailed answers to inquiries about clinical trials, existing medicines, healthcare landscape, and market competition swiftly, reducing the time from months to minutes.

Datacurve

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Datacurve is a technology company that specializes in providing high-quality coding data for applications and large language models. The platform connects businesses with a network of skilled engineers who generate and vet data, ensuring its accuracy and diversity. By focusing on complex coding problems and frameworks, Datacurve helps organizations enhance their generative AI tools and build more capable models.

dawn

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Dawn is the analytics platform for AI products specializing in converting user interactions into actionable insights.

MediSearch

Seed Round in 2023
MediSearch is a technology company that develops a search engine platform. This platform is designed to deliver direct, science-based answers to medical questions, empowering users to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. It offers a user-friendly interface, expert-curated information, and reliable sources, making it a trusted resource for those seeking health or bioscience insights.

NuMind

Seed Round in 2023
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Integration Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs, formerly RootFi, provides a unified data integration platform and API that lets companies read and write customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payments data across platforms. The solution supports automating accounting, underwriting credit risk, and deriving business insights by syncing data across systems with standardized data models, enabling clients to streamline AP/AR, payroll accounting, and to build new tools and applications.

NuMind

Pre Seed Round in 2022
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Cinder Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Cinder Technologies operates a unified intelligence and investigation platform designed to support decision-making in fraud and risk management. This platform enables technology companies to effectively track, investigate, and address critical issues within online communities. By integrating various relevant data sources and centralizing decision-making processes, Cinder empowers trust and safety teams to make faster and more accurate decisions regarding abusive content, fraud, and threats. The customizable workflows provided by the platform enhance the capabilities of investigative teams, facilitating more effective resolutions to pressing challenges faced by organizations in the digital landscape.

BIK

Venture Round in 2022
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Axis

Venture Round in 2022
Axis develops a government data platform designed to understand the political crisis, government reshuffle, and new regulations in markets. Its platform easily finds and follows policy-makers and regulators, evaluates the information relevant to decision-making, and offers macro and sector insights.

Hydra

Seed Round in 2022
Hydra is an open-source data warehouse that specializes in columnar storage, vectorization, and parallelized query execution

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin provides a competitive intelligence software platform for retailers and brands. It delivers global, real-time coverage of product assortments and pricing data from e-commerce sites across more than 100 million SKUs, enabling customers to monitor competitors' offerings and pricing at scale. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to collect, track, and categorize web data, helping retailers and brands understand competitive strategy and automate data-driven decision making.

BIK

Series A in 2021
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Talus Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talus Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in drug discovery. It focuses on developing therapies targeting challenging cancer transcription factors using its proprietary MARMOT platform, which integrates functional proteomics, automated biology, machine learning, AI, synthetic chemistry, and computational biology to design and analyze drugs, proteins, and genomics.

BIK

Seed Round in 2020
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

BloomTech

Seed Round in 2019
BloomTech helps learners of all backgrounds launch tech careers. The company aims to provide a direct, low-risk path to higher income by teaching the skills employers want plus supporting applicants in their job search. The simplified training provided by BloomTech equips applicants for careers in data science, software engineering, and other fields.

Biobot Analytics

Seed Round in 2018
Biobot Analytics, Inc. is a wastewater epidemiology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. It specializes in transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories through innovative technology that analyzes sewage for health-related data. By deploying proprietary sampling devices and spatial analytics, Biobot measures various health threats, including infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and drug consumption patterns. The company's Opioid Consumption Monitoring Program specifically estimates opioid use in urban areas by analyzing wastewater. This approach generates anonymized public health data that is independent of traditional hospital reporting systems, allowing for rapid adaptability to emerging public health threats. Biobot Analytics offers its insights as a service, providing government officials with actionable data to prioritize interventions and address public health challenges effectively.

Unbound Security

Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.
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