Andrew Krioukov is a UC Berkeley PhD candidate in computer science who co-founded Laude Ventures after previously creating CSGV, a fund that specifically pooled capital from CS PhDs and professors to invest in researcher-founders. He simultaneously serves as CEO of Antimatter, a data security startup, while being a General Partner at Laude Ventures, giving him the unusual position of actively building a company while investing in other technical teams.
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Laude Ventures is a $150M fund where technologists invest in technologists, with all three general partners being deeply technical operators who founded billion-dollar software companies like Databricks and Perplexity, and backed by more than 50 leading computer scientists including unicorn founders, a Turing Award winner, and research leaders like Jeff Dean. The fund invests at the moment of discovery when breakthroughs are made in labs, focusing on frontier AI and research-rooted infrastructure companies that emerge from top AI labs and systems research groups.
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