Laude Ventures
laude.vc Direct investor
Laude Ventures is an inception-stage venture firm that invests early in deeply technical founders, often those with research backgrounds, focusing on AI and related infrastructure. The firm was launched in 2024 and is led by co-founders with experience at Databricks and Perplexity.
Laude Ventures is a venture capital firm, founded in 2024. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in AI, infrastructure, security and frontier models. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest early, when a technical insight is ready to become a company and the right partners can change its trajectory.”
— Laude Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- AI, infrastructure, security, frontier models, applied AI, evals
- Founded
- 2024
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Laude Ventures publishes it
- Andy Konwinski Co-founder and GP
- Pete Sonsini Co-founder and GP
- Aditi Purandare Associate
- Andrew Krioukov Co-founder and Partner
- Braden Hancock Research Partner
- K. Tighe Communications Partner, Laude Institute Co-founder
- Lindsey Gregory Head of Operations, Laude Institute Co-founder
- Michele Ocampo Finance Lead
Names and roles exactly as listed on laude.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 49 co-investors found.
- Felicis Ventures 4 shared companies: perplexity.ai, arena.ai, eventual.ai, sooth.inc
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 3 shared companies: arena.ai, arena.org.au, inferact.ai
- Factorial Funds 2 shared companies: perplexity.ai, arcade.ai
- Samsung Next 2 shared companies: perplexity.ai, narada.ai
- 359 Capital LLC 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
- Accumulator Operations LLC 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
- Alpha Partners Management, LLC 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
- Arrington Capital 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
- Atlantic Labs 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
- AVV 1 shared company: perplexity.ai
and 39 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Laude Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://laude.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, status
- https://laude.vc/portfoliosectors, portfolio_count
- https://laude.vc/aboutthesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded
- https://laude.vc/teampeople
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Record 2710 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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