Factorial

Factory.ai is an AI-native software development platform that automates coding tasks through advanced autonomous AI systems known as Droids. The platform is designed to enhance software engineering productivity by allowing users to delegate complete tasks like refactoring and incident response without altering their existing tools or workflows.

Slingshot AI is developing the first foundation model for psychology, aimed at providing accessible mental health support through AI technology. Their product, Ash, is designed to help individuals manage their mental health by respecting their autonomy and personal values.

SF Compute sells time on large-scale GPU clusters, allowing customers to enter contracts that can be exited by selling back to a liquid market, thus reducing the risk associated with long-term agreements.

Oboe is a technology company that builds audio software and offers a platform for creating personalized learning materials, including textbooks, quizzes, and podcasts. The platform leverages AI to enhance the learning experience.

LMArena is a community-powered platform for understanding AI performance in the real world, allowing users to evaluate and compare AI models through real-world feedback.

GitButler is the Git-backed change management tool for modern, AI coding workflows. It offers features like parallel and stacked branches, unlimited undo, and agent integrations to enhance the Git experience.

Decart AI Lab focuses on real-time generative video and multimodal models, providing tools for creators, developers, and enterprises to create and edit video using AI technologies.

Copilot Money is a personal finance management app that helps users track their spending, budgets, investments, and net worth, providing personalized recommendations through AI.

Causal Labs is building a Large Physics foundation Model (LPM) to learn causality through physics and weather, the most well-observed and consequential physical system.

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI research lab focused on developing state-of-the-art generative deep learning models for media such as images and videos, with a mission to advance visual intelligence.

Basis is a strategic finance platform that helps teams save time on data preparation and offers integrations for business systems. It targets startups with forecasting models.

Pre-seed investor exclusively backing MIT and Media Lab founders, commercializing complex research (computational fabrication, robotics), offering EPOCH rapid $50K–$150K decisions in 24 hours and strong community support.

Early-stage investor combining AI-driven software, sustainability tech, and consumer brands as co-equal focus areas, offering a dedicated internal team plus a ~500-founder portfolio network with high-visibility exits. Founded by legendary VC Alan Patricof as his return to early-stage investing and uniquely combines three major practice areas—AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and consumer brands—making it one of the few mainstream US VCs that treats consumer brands and deep AI infrastructure as co-equal focus areas under one roof. The firm operates a dedicated internal team and ~500-founder portfolio network as an explicit value-add engine while maintaining a distinctive pattern of backing culturally defining consumer and media brands.