Before becoming an investor, JB Michel co-created Google's Ngram Viewer, and he later founded Patch Biosciences to build safer gene therapies after his nephews were diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. His path also passed through Google, Palantir, BenevolentAI, and Ginkgo Bioworks, and he's unusually creative for someone in tech and biology—his art is even part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's permanent collection.
About their Fund
Basis Set Ventures is a $140M+ seed fund that uses psychometrics and structured data to categorize founders into specific archetypes (like "humble operator" or "agile visionary"), then statistically models which personality patterns correlate with outlier outcomes—turning typical "gut feel" investing into a repeatable, data-informed process. The women-led firm runs a quantitative sourcing engine that tracks obscure signals like GitHub activity spikes and engineer departures from big tech to find "future of work" AI companies outside the usual Sand Hill Road network, positioning itself as the place where introverted, pragmatic operators can practice their pitch and get hands-on help with everything from go-to-market strategy to model-building.




























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