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8VC Fund VI

Geography: United States
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: $998M
Focus: AI/ML and Mobility & Transport
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

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.

N°02 / Thesis

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

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Manufacturing & Logistics

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

42 companies built since 2016website

Portfolio across 8 core sectors + emerging AIwebsite

Fellowship + Engineering Fellowship activewebsite

20 open positions — active deployment surgewebsite

Recent exits: Vals, Sable, Generalistwebsite

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

17-20 open positions — aggressive hiring velocitywebsite

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

Tackle Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Logistics, Defense

Founder Don'ts

Traditional SaaS positioning

No distribution strategy for AI

Consumer-oriented without enterprise focus

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$998M

Saves0

Website

People

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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