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San Francisco, California · Invests in US · Website

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Pre-SeedSeedSeries AConsumer Apps & SocialB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFintechHealthcare & BiotechDeveloper Tools & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech & PaymentsHealthcare & Digital Health

Thesis

Invest in exceptional people, not just ideas. Identify future tech leaders while still in college and support them through every stage of entrepreneurial journey. Build diverse, inclusive communities that create self-reinforcing network effects and generate outsized returns.

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Non-technical founders, fully mature companies, non-aligned values, teams lacking diversity commitment, crypto/financial scams

How they invest

Lead or follow
Leads or follows
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$1B
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

3 contacts on file

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Ali Partovi

General PartnerCEO & Founder · Primary contact

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a•••@ne•••.com

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Maddie Bernheim

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Suzannexie

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Portfolio

CursorEnterprise Software

Cursor is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to enhance developer productivity. It provides features such as an editor with AI-assisted coding and a command-line interface, enabling users to streamline their coding processes.

CognitionEnterprise Software

Cognition AI develops Devin, an AI software engineer, and partners with Infosys for deployment. It focuses on security, data privacy, and compliance.

PikaMedia Entertainment

Pika is an innovative platform that enables creators to generate hyper-realistic video content with synchronized audio using its Pikaformance model. The platform aims to democratize video creation, allowing users to make their images express a variety of sounds in near real-time.

KalshiConsumer Apps Social

Kalshi is the first CFTC regulated exchange dedicated to trading on the outcome of future events. It allows users to trade on a wide range of topics, including economics, culture, and climate, through innovative financial instruments called event contracts, which enable trading based on specific yes-or-no questions regarding future occurrences.

Chai DiscoveryBiotech Life Sciences

Chai Discovery builds frontier models and tools to predict and reprogram the interactions between molecules. Our technology is used to unlock breakthrough medicines.

CalderaDeveloper Tools Infra

Caldera provides a modular blockchain infrastructure focused on rollups, enabling high-performance decentralized applications and gaming experiences.

BlueskyMedia Entertainment

Bluesky is a social app designed to create a decentralized social media experience, built on the AT Protocol, which allows for interoperability and account portability across different social applications.

AnteriorHealthcare Digital

Anterior accelerates AI transformation by moving health plans past proof of concept, into proof of result. They build, deploy, and orchestrate AI actions for health plan workflows that are transparent, modular, and clinically accurate.

MomentFintech Payments

Moment provides fixed income trading and data solutions for wealth management platforms, enabling advisors to build personalized portfolios and automate trading processes.

SapienEnterprise Software

Sapien provides AI analytics solutions tailored for finance and operations teams, enabling businesses to derive insights from complex data across various ERP systems.

ReplitEnterprise Software

Replit is an AI-powered platform for building and deploying apps and websites collaboratively. It offers tools for software development, including a built-in database and security features. Replit aims to democratize software creation.

Media KitEnterprise Software

Media kits are professional documents showcasing brand assets; Notion offers various templates for creating them.

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Research briefRead more
Neo Research Document Investment Thesis Neo is a community-driven venture capital firm founded by Ali Partovi in 2017 with a distinctive philosophy: invest in exceptional people, not just ideas. The fund's core thesis centers on identifying future tech leaders while they're still in college and supporting them through every stage of their entrepreneurial journey. Neo believes that the best founder…

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