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Chemistry Fund I

Geography: United States
Stage: Seed
Fund size: $350M
Focus: Biotech and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Chemistry Fund I

Chemistry Fund I is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in Biotech, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

Biotech

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

AI-native founders rebuilding broken enterprise workflows with strong teams

agentic AI

enterprise software

AI-native tools

creative AI

founder-first

compute infrastructure

fintech x AI

Bullish Signals

Co-invested $47M Series A, oversubscribedexternal

Backs AI + quantum chemistry drug discoveryexternal

Co-investing alongside Sutter Hill Venturesexternal

4 portfolio cos on Enterprise Tech 30 listexternal

Decagon follow-on: seed → $250M Series Dexternal

Serval: Series A → $75M Series B in 3 monthsexternal

Co-led Dideo AI $30M Series Aexternal

Backed Noon Design $44M raiseexternal

Nova AI Series A lead, $40M fund + SAP partnershipexternal

Ethan Kurzweil: Ray Kurzweil's son, deep AGI credibilityexternal

Active founder community: Builders in AI eventsexternal

Atoms $1.7B led a16z: Chemistry's largest check evertwitter

Brown alum network: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Notion leaderstwitter

Ethan interviewing Ray Kurzweil on AGI, founder contenttwitter

Bohan joined Oct 2024: early stage partner culture-builderlinkedin

Team curiosity as core fund value: healthcare, robotics, workforcelinkedin

Co-led Liquid Compute $15M seed: compute derivatives infrastructurelinkedin

Liquid Compute: regulated DCM/DCO for AI compute marketplacelinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Portfolio stage/check size unclearexternal

Appears follower in rounds, not always leadexternal

Thesis shift: bio → broad enterprise AIexternal

Founder Do's

Build AI-native enterprise workflows

Show strong co-founder chemistry

Target large, broken enterprise categories

Demo product that wows on first look

Engage with Chemistry's founder community events

Focus on regulated, infrastructure-scale markets

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch without clear enterprise use case

Avoid vague AI buzzwords without product depth

Don't come solo — team chemistry matters

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$350M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Mark Goldberg, Kristina Shen, Ethan Kurzweil

Ethan KurzweilFounding Partner

Mark GoldbergCo-Founder / Partner

Kevin ShensterCo-Founder / Partner

Kristina ShenPartner

Bohan LouPartner

Nick FaulknerPartner

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