Radical Ventures Early Stage AI Fund IV

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 founders, early-stage, Canada or global

early-stage AI

Canadian AI ecosystem

global AI startups

LLM & deep tech

growth-stage AI (separate fund)

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, Xanaduexternal

$800M growth fund closed Aug 2024external

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

Leverage AI research community ties

Founder Don'ts

Non-AI business models

Late-stage only — separate fund for that

Avoid vague 'AI-enabled' positioning

Key GPs & Partners

Jordan Jacobs

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

AI-nativefounder-turned-investorecosystem builder

Aaron Brindle

Partner

communicatorLP-relations

Richa Mehta

Partner

SF-basednewest partner

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$650M

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Key People

Jordan Jacobs, Aaron Brindle

Jordan JacobsCo-Founder & Managing Partner

Aaron BrindlePartner

Richa MehtaPartner