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Basis Set Ventures
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Basis Set Ventures is an AI-native venture fund founded in 2017, built on the belief that artificial intelligence is 'the single most transformative force shaping the 21st century.' The firm invests in founders harnessing AI to improve productivity across all sectors of the economy — from factories to offices — organized around four themes: scalable infrastructure, intelligent collaboration, automated workflows, and autonomous machines. Basis Set targets founders at the earliest possible moment, often leading or co-leading pre-seed and seed rounds, and positions itself as a 24/7 founder concierge: 'your first customer, sales rep, bug reporter, recruiter and more.' The firm differentiates itself by being an AI-native operator itself, running a proprietary ML-powered deal-sourcing and portfolio-support platform (Pascal). It takes a data-driven, psychometric approach to founder evaluation — modeling personality archetypes against outcome data — and commits for the long haul with follow-on reserves. As Lan Xuezhao wrote at Fund IV: 'We back people building real systems while the signal is still unclear and before the narrative has caught up. We do not outsource belief or conviction.'
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“We back people building real systems while the signal is still unclear and before the narrative has caught up. We do not outsource belief or conviction. We commit for the long haul, rapidly iterate with you, and work to compound your business together over time.”
“We're pretty careful with consistency and discipline on fund size. It's the same thesis, the same fund construction since fund one.”
“Internal technology programs like the company's Pascal system have allowed Basis Set to review roughly 9,000 different software deals developing tech in the company's core thesis, which is artificial intelligence-enabled software as a service and business-to-business deals.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drata | Seed | — | 2020-01-01 |
| Quince | Seed | — | 2019-01-01 |
| Scale AI | Pre-seed / Angel | — | 2016-01-01 |
| Sakana AI | Seed | $30m | 2024-01-16 |
| Rasa | Series C | $30m | 2024-02-14 |
| Workstream | Series B | $48m | 2021-08-01 |
| Entire | Seed | $60m | 2026-02-10 |
| Simular | Seed | $27m | 2025-12-03 |
| Mem0 | Seed | — | 2025-01-01 |
| Path Robotics | Seed | — | 2018-01-01 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| GGV Capital | 5 |
| Founders Fund | 4 |
| CRV | 4 |
| Cowboy Ventures | 3 |
| Coatue Management | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
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