Radical Ventures Early Stage AI Fund IV

Canada
Seed
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About Radical Ventures Early Stage AI Fund IV

Early-stage artificial intelligence startups (science, infrastructure, enterprise). Seed, Series A.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionCanada
Funding StageSeed
Industry Focus
Ai Ml
Data Infrastructure

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

Deep-tech AI agents, scientific discovery, Canada-connected

early-stage AI
AI agents & scientific discovery
Canadian AI ecosystem
global AI startups
LLM & deep tech

Bullish Signals

$650M Fund IV just closedexternal
CPP invested $280M across Radical fundsexternal
Eric Schmidt family office backed fundexternal
LPs include Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, TDexternal
Portfolio: Cohere, Waabi, Xanadu, Inherentexternal
$800M growth fund closed Aug 2024external
Backing AI agents solving scientific discoverysocial

Contrarian Signals

LP list largely undisclosedexternal
Canada-heavy portfolio, niche networkexternal
6 funds in — late manager lifecycleexternal

Founder Do's

Build AI-core, not AI-wrapper
Canada-based or Canada-connected a plus
Show deep technical AI foundations
Target large institutional markets
Explore human-AI collaboration & safety-first design

Founder Don'ts

Non-AI business models
Late-stage only — separate fund for that
Avoid vague 'AI-enabled' positioning

Key GPs & Partners

JJ
Jordan Jacobs
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
AI-nativefounder-turned-investorecosystem builder
AB
Aaron Brindle
Partner
communicatorLP-relations
RM
Richa Mehta
Partner
SF-basednewest partner
MW
Molly Welch
Partner
AI agents investorpodcast host
AR
Aaron Rosenberg
Partner
AI agents focuspodcast host

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$650M
Saves0

Key People

Jordan Jacobs, Aaron Brindle

Jordan JacobsCo-Founder & Managing Partner
Aaron BrindlePartner
Richa MehtaPartner
Molly WelchPartner
Aaron RosenbergPartner

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