Richard Socher

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, AIX Ventures

NLP pioneer and You.com CEO investing in AI startups

San Francisco, USA$250K-$5M checks2 notable investments

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Website LinkedIn 𝕏@RichardSocher AIX Ventures Crunchbase

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Background

Richard Socher is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AIX Ventures and Founder and CEO of You.com. He previously served as Chief Scientist at Salesforce after his startup MetaMind was acquired in 2016. He holds a PhD from Stanford where he invented GloVe word vectors and foundational NLP techniques. He is credited with bringing neural networks into NLP and is listed as Time100 AI.

Investment Thesis

By-builders-for-builders AI fund; backs AI-native startups built by technical founders with deep domain expertise across applications and infrastructure.

Investment Focus

Stages

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Typical check: $250K-$5M

Sectors

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Based in: San Francisco, USA (North America)

Notable Investments

Hugging Face

Open-source AI model hub and platform

Perplexity

AI-powered search engine

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Last updated: Jun 11, 2026