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 Pre-Seed Round

Zenbase AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Zenbase AI specializes in streamlining coding processes for developers. It offers a data infrastructure and analytics platform that automates prompt engineering and model selection, enhancing the efficiency of large language models. This allows developers to focus more on coding by automating tasks that would otherwise require manual effort.

Kopra Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Kopra Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of viral immunotherapy technology for cancer treatment. Their innovative approach uses oncolytic viruses to selectively infect and destroy cancer cells, transforming them into 'biofactories' that produce therapeutic proteins. This enables personalized cancer treatments, targeting specific types of cancer and potentially enhancing survival rates.

Comfy Deploy

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Comfy Deploy is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in providing production-ready Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for generative AI applications. Its platform offers customizable workflows, managed Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and production-ready APIs, empowering product teams to efficiently deploy AI applications with flexibility.

Ångström AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Angstrom AI leverages GenAI-based molecular simulations to replace wet lab experiments in pre-clinical drug development.

Coval

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Coval, a stealth-mode startup, specializes in a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents. This platform empowers engineers to deploy reliable AI assistants across various communication channels and modalities, ensuring robust evaluation with high-quality datasets and relevant metrics.

Polymet

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Polymet is an AI Product Designer, helps teams create well-designed user interfaces and prototypes without any design experience. You explain what you want or provide an image, and Polymet will design it for you and provide production-ready front-end code for those designs.

Syntra

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Syntra develops an EHR platform that streamlines billing, records, and follow-ups, helping doctors automate tasks.

Undermind

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Undermind is a research-focused company that develops an AI-powered search engine designed to address complex inquiries. The firm utilizes advanced AI algorithms to enhance its search capabilities, allowing users to navigate extensive literature and find answers to intricate questions efficiently. By leveraging technology to tackle difficult queries, Undermind aims to streamline the research process and provide accurate, relevant information to its users.

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.

Weave Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Weave Robotics is a robotics engineering company specializing in the development of autonomous home robots. Their flagship product is a personal robot designed to assist with household chores and daily tasks, which can be controlled via voice, text, or a mobile application.

DreamRP

Pre Seed Round in 2024
DreamRP is a technology company that specializes in creating interactive chatbots for creators to engage their fan bases. Utilizing ethical AI, the platform brings characters to life, enabling direct interaction with fans and facilitating new revenue streams for creators.

Lighthouz AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lighthouz AI specializes in developing AI-driven procurement tools for businesses. Their primary product is an AI procurement assistant that automates repetitive tasks, such as data entry, creating purchase orders, invoice verification, vendor communication, and error identification. This streamlines operations, reduces bookkeeping costs, and allows procurement teams to focus on strategic business activities.

Vera Health

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Vera Health is a Software Development firm offering accelerating evidence-based medicine.

Conductor Quantum

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Conductor Quantum specializes in the development of quantum computers, focusing on silicon chip-based systems. The company's core offering is an AI-powered platform designed to automate and expedite the creation and control of qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information. This platform aims to reduce manual intervention and accelerate advancements in quantum computing by optimizing semiconductor chips for quantum applications.

Danswer

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Danswer is an AI-powered assistant that integrates with a company's tools and documents, facilitating swift retrieval of any required information.

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.

Om Therapeutics

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Om Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that specializes in accelerating drug discovery through its innovative platform. The platform enables global researchers to rapidly launch new drug discovery programs, with a focus on developing much-needed therapeutics for patients.

Marblism

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Marblism is a web application development platform designed to serve businesses looking to streamline their application creation process. The platform harnesses an application programming interface that generates code for various components, including front-end, back-end, emails, and notifications. This capability allows users to develop customized applications tailored to their specific needs, enhancing operational efficiency and user experience. Marblism provides a fully functional web-based solution that facilitates the development and deployment of applications, making it a valuable tool for organizations aiming to innovate and improve their digital offerings.

Thorntale

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thorntale is a technology company specializing in data storytelling software. It offers an online presentation platform designed to simplify data visualization and narrative creation. The software provides pre-designed templates and supports multiple presentation formats, allowing users to directly connect charts and tables to their data sources, enhancing the storytelling process.

Model ML

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Model ML develops an AI-powered research tool designed to streamline workflows in the financial sector. Its software employs advanced AI systems to analyze multiple data sources simultaneously, enabling professionals to work more efficiently and extract deeper insights.

Risotto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Risotto develops an AI-powered IT help desk platform that automates support requests and enhances security, enabling businesses to streamline tech support operations and improve resolution times.

ParcelBio

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ParcelBio is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of a novel, programmable method for safely and precisely delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) to diverse cell types within the body. Their technology aims to create targeted, potent, and durable RNA therapeutics, with the potential to treat a wide range of diseases, including cancer, genetic disorders, and infectious diseases.

Open

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Save $100K+ with our AI customer support, We resolve 60-80% of your customers’ complex support issues via phone, email, and web.

PlayAI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
PlayAI specializes in creating advanced AI voice models designed for fluid and emotive conversations. The platform enables businesses and developers to build engaging conversational AI experiences that enhance user interaction. By focusing on natural language processing and intuitive sequences, PlayAI aims to make human-AI interactions more accessible and effective for various applications.

KURUKURU

Pre Seed Round in 2023
KURUKURU is a webcomic platform to create comics by posing scenes and generating characters.

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.

Pump

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pump is a cloud cost optimization company offering a platform that pools commitments across organizations to secure discounted rates from cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. The platform uses artificial intelligence to identify savings opportunities and automate the purchase of reserved instances and savings plans, helping startups reduce cloud bills while preserving performance and scalability. It reallocates unused resources and applies savings automatically, with restricted billing permissions that limit access to code or data.

Ordinary Seafood

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ordinary Seafood is a food-tech company focused on creating sustainable seafood alternatives through the use of plant protein and biotechnology. The company aims to address the challenges in the food system by providing delicious and healthy vegan-based seafood products. By leveraging innovative technologies, Ordinary Seafood seeks to offer consumers balanced options that align with their dietary preferences while promoting environmental sustainability.

Palitronica

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Palitronica is a network security company focused on protecting global supply chains. It serves defense, energy, communications, transportation, and healthcare sectors and develops cybersecurity hardware and software to detect and prevent counterfeit, fraudulent, and tampered items across components and assemblies. Its technology integrates secure digital signal processing with hardware security to safeguard supply chains and semiconductor integrity, helping clients distinguish legitimate items from compromised ones and protect the digital signals associated with those components.

Aviato

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aviato is a platform offering real-time data insights for private markets. It helps users discover, evaluate, and connect with promising early-stage startups by providing up-to-date company intelligence.

Gobillion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion is a social e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New Delhi and Bangalore, India. The company focuses on transforming the online shopping experience by facilitating group purchases through its "Team Buy" model. This innovative approach allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to collectively buy groceries and household essentials. By leveraging the power of group buying, Gobillion helps customers save money on their purchases, making everyday shopping more economical and social.

Govly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Govly is a software platform that connects businesses with government contracting opportunities. It aggregates real-time, non-public contract feeds, allowing companies to monitor, curate, and analyze federal procurement data. Govly streamlines the bidding process from discovery to award, empowering businesses to focus on high-potential opportunities.

Toolbox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

FamPay

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FamPay Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that provides a digital payment application specifically designed for teenagers and their families. Incorporated in 2019, FamPay enables minors to conduct various payment activities, including UPI, peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, and card payments, without requiring a traditional bank account. The application allows parents to send money to their children, who can then spend it securely at online and in-store merchants under parental supervision. By focusing on the unique needs of younger users, FamPay aims to create a seamless and enjoyable payment experience for teenagers while ensuring financial safety and accountability.

FamPay

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FamPay Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that provides a digital payment application specifically designed for teenagers and their families. Incorporated in 2019, FamPay enables minors to conduct various payment activities, including UPI, peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, and card payments, without requiring a traditional bank account. The application allows parents to send money to their children, who can then spend it securely at online and in-store merchants under parental supervision. By focusing on the unique needs of younger users, FamPay aims to create a seamless and enjoyable payment experience for teenagers while ensuring financial safety and accountability.

Bottomless

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a WiFi-connected scale that tracks coffee consumption and automatically re-orders fresh beans based on user preferences.

WorkClout

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WorkClout, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that focuses on enhancing operational efficiency for manufacturers across various industries, including commercial printing, packaging, and automotive. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Newark, Delaware, WorkClout's software provides comprehensive solutions for business intelligence, job scheduling, order management, and quality control. It enables manufacturers to track activities on the factory floor, facilitating the logging of idle time and downtime, as well as streamlining processes such as document control and visual inspections. By leveraging data analytics, WorkClout offers actionable insights aimed at improving productivity and accelerating product-to-market timelines for its clients.

Explorex Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hence aren't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex. Location: 420 S 4th Street Unit 15, Ames, IA, us, 50010
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