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8VC Fund VI

United States
Pre Seed
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About 8VC Fund VI

8VC Fund VI is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, Mobility Transport, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States
Funding StagePre Seed
Industry Focus
Ai Ml
Mobility Transport

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Founder building agentic AI for enterprise distribution

AI Distribution & Agentic Systems
Frontier Technology
Company-Building (Internal)
Systems-of-Work (not SaaS)
Defense & Gov
AI Evals & Measurement Infrastructure

Bullish Signals

AI underhyped — distribution is bottlenecklinkedin
30% capital → internal company incubationlinkedin
Craft-model focus vs mega-fund consolidationlinkedin
Systems-of-work thesis — LLM-native business logiclinkedin
Agentic software — humans supervise AI agentslinkedin
21 own companies built since 2016external
Portfolio diversified across 6 core sectorsexternal
Fellowship + Build program activeexternal
20 open positions — active deploymentexternal
Kolicich conviction-driven on AI trajectorylinkedin
Judgment + conviction over mega-fund scalelinkedin
Led Vals seed round — benchmarking infrastructurelinkedin
Independent measurement critical path to ASIlinkedin
Evals on critical infrastructure layer thesislinkedin
Partnering with Andreessen Horowitz portfoliolinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Own company-builder — conflict possibleexternal
30% capital tied in incubation — less dry powderlinkedin
Highly political tweets — reputation risktwitter

Founder Do's

Solve AI distribution bottleneck
Build agentic systems — not SaaS
Transform established, analog industries
Show clear societal impact
Fit for internal incubation thesis
Create independent measurement/evals layer

Founder Don'ts

Traditional SaaS positioning
No distribution strategy for AI
Consumer-oriented without enterprise focus

Key GPs & Partners

AK
Alex Kolicich
Founding Partner & CIO
AI-distribution focusedCompany-builderConviction-driven
JL
Joe Lonsdale
General Partner
Operator-mindedAI-forwardPodcast presence
JM
John Melas-Kyriazi
Partner
Data-drivenPortfolio-ops focusedAI-forward
VG
Vivek Gopalan
General Partner
AI infrastructureMeasurement-focusedThought leader
??
Unknown GP
General Partner
ConservativeOpinionatedPolitically active

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$998M
Saves0
Website
LinkedIn

Key People

Joe Lonsdale, Jake Medwell

Alex KolicichFounding Partner & CIO
Joe LonsdaleGeneral Partner
John Melas-KyriaziPartner
Vivek GopalanGeneral Partner
Unknown GPGeneral Partner

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