Earthling is a pre-seed venture fund led by Arian Ghashghai, who left a machine learning role at Meta Reality Labs, invested his own savings, and made 22 angel investments in AR/VR, robotics, and spatial computing before starting the fund; it focuses on technically hard-to-evaluate teams building physical, interface-driven technology, and looks for resourceful founders able to survive tough markets. The fund is backed by investors like Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Andrew Chen, and Adam Draper, and has co-invested with specialist firms such as Boost VC and Anorak, giving it access to a niche network in VR, robotics, and spatial computing rather than a broad, generalist investor base.