Investing Profile

Pieter Abbeel

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Investment Partner at AIX Ventures

aixventures.comBerkeley, California

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Current Investing Position

AIX Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

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Pieter Abbeel's Investments On Record (14)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Engram	SeedJun 2026$98M	$98M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital), Sarah Catanzaro (Amplify Partners), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Assaf Rappaport (Mensch Capital Partners), Leigh Marie Braswell (Kleiner Perkins), Ali Partovi (Airbnb, Convoy, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, etc), Ofir Ehrlich, Jennifer Campbell
Config	SeedMay 2026$27M	$32M
Co-investors: Dan Rose (Coatue), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Biz Stone (Jelly Industries), Shishir Mehrotra
Prompt AI	SeedSep 2023$5M	$5M
Perplexity	SeedSep 2022$3M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Bob Muglia (Snowflake Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Joshua Müller (T.Capital), Stanley Druckenmiller (Unknown Ventures), Daniel Gross (Various), Shane Neman, Jeff Bezos, Mattia Astori, Tobias Lutke, Amjad Masad
Gantry	Series AJun 2022$24M	$24M
Co-investors: Greg Brockman (OpenAI)
Bloom AI	SeedMar 2022$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Shaun Johnson (AIX Ventures), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Richard Socher (AIX Ventures), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures)
Cohere	Series BFeb 2022$130M Series ASep 2021$40M	$1.5B
Co-investors: Jennifer Wolf (Initialized Capital), Preetha Parthasarathy (Sapphire Ventures), Janey Hoe (Cisco Investments), Noah Yago (Triangle Peak Partners), Steven Woods (iNovia Capital), Fei-Fei Li (AI4ALL), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Lance Matthews (DTCP), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Vivek Sodera (Superhuman), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund)
Wayve	Series BJan 2022$200M Series AJul 2019$20M	$1.5B
Co-investors: Avid Larizadeh (GV (Google Ventures)), Seth Winterroth (Eclipse Ventures), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Viktoriya Tigipko (TA Ventures), Bruno Bowden (Grep VC), Rosemary Leith (Motive Partners), Alexandre Perrin (Cleverton Ventures), Richard Branson, Satya Nadella

Pieter Abbeel's Experience

Investment Partner AIX Ventures2021 - Present

Undergrad Electrical Engineering HowcastPresent

Undergrad Electrical Engineering GentenchPresent

Undergrad Electrical Engineering KU LeuvenPresent

Ph.D. student GentenchPresent

Ph.D. student Stanford UniversityPresent

Professor GentenchPresent

Professor University of California, BerkeleyPresent

Research Scientist OpenAIPresent

Podcast Host The Robot Brains PodcastPresent

Distinguished Scientist, VP, Scholar AmazonPresent

Co-Founder GradescopePresent

Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist CovariantPresent

Founding Investment Partner AIX VenturesPresent

Pieter Abbeel's Education

KU Leuven BS/MS Electrical Engineering

Stanford University Master of Science (MS) Computer Science

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