The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.
Together, let’s build great companies that will move humanity forward.
Why Partner With AI Fund:We’ve been there. We’ve founded and scaled successful companies ourselves, and we know that creating meaningful startups is really hard. Many entrepreneurs toil with ideas for years. Many spend time building something without the foresight of limiting factors that could have been easily dismissed upfront. Accomplished execs often teeter between a desire to start a company and creating something great versus taking a job that is less fulfilling. If only someone could help with taking the risk out of turning an idea into reality and accelerate the company building process, more people would be inspired to start a company.
Coming up with great ideas, sussing them out, assembling great teams, and helping raise capital is what we do. We shorten a process that can take years down to months. We make sure you are going after the right market, are fully validated, and are surrounded by great teammates. Lastly, we make sure you see the world through the lens of a data scientist and machine learning expert, which is the perspective any meaningful company in the future must have.
But we also know that the process is not about us. It’s about great Founders and empowering them to do great things.
What We Seek:We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs with first-hand knowledge of the problem they have encountered or entrepreneurs that might match to a problem or idea we already have. It’s not a mandate, but ideally, we want people with experience solving business problems and have a keen eye for anticipating business risks. We are looking for a sound business leader who has built a company from 0 to 1 or a product manager running a product or built a product line from scratch before. We desire entrepreneurs who can hire great people, get others excited about their vision, raise capital, and make it all happen.
About Portfolio Company: Businesses engaged in cross-border trade face the daunting challenge of complying with diverse and ever-changing global regulations.
A rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, driven by factors like geopolitical tensions (e.g., China/US, Russia/Ukraine, Brexit), sustainability regulations, and AI/data privacy laws, significantly increases the complexity and cost of cross-border trade for businesses across various industries, such as consumer electronics and cosmetics.
Gaia’s AI platform simplifies navigating these regulations for manufacturers that import and export consumer goods. It offers tailored checklists and automates crucial processes, empowering companies to navigate compliance requirements, reduce costs, and enhance supply chain profitability confidently and efficiently.
What You Will Be Doing:
- The FIR will work with the AI Fund Leadership Team to launch and scale new businesses from the ground up. If you're obsessed with startups and building exceptional products this role is for you
- Work alongside our Venture Studio team to iteratively research and validate on a problem to solve that can benefit from AI/ML. This includes idea validation, product validation, market validation, and funding validation
- Develop a product and prototype it
- Set the vision and the strategy of the portfolio company once the idea has been tested and determined product market fit
- If all makes sense, we capitalize the company to help you stand the company up, bring in the best talent, build the product, and get pilot customers
What You Must Bring:
- Prior startup founder, or experience working at an early stage tech company
- Integral part of building technology companies from 0 to 1
- Strategic thinking
- Self-starter who will thrive in an ambiguous startup environment
- Competitive, entrepreneurial mindset
- Demonstrated experience building products and leading teams
- Demonstrated track record of success
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to recruit great team members
- Demonstrated ability to fundraise
- B2B SaaS Experience
Nice To Have:
- Experience in the Supply Chain/Logistics, e-Commerce or Legal-tech space
Characteristics:
- Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity
- Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future
- Grit: able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure
- Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation
- Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature
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