Andy Konwinski is the co-founder and General Partner of Laude Ventures. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Andy Konwinski is the co-founder and General Partner of Laude Ventures, an early-stage venture firm he launched alongside the nonprofit Laude Institute to bridge AI research and commercial products. His investment thesis targets technical founders building in artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, developer tools, and enterprise software, with a focus on translating academic breakthroughs into startups. Laude Ventures typically invests at the seed or pre-seed stage, providing opinionated funding and resources to projects aiming to create the next major open-source breakthrough or company like Databricks. Notable portfolio companies include Perplexity, where Konwinski was a founding investor and served as the first President, and Databricks, which he co-founded as VP of Product AI/ML. Konwinski distinguishes his approach by running the Laude Institute, which awards grants to "moonshot" AI projects and co-created the Terminal Bench evaluation with Stanford researchers. He publicly argues that the U.S. risks losing the AI race to China due to disinvestment in academic research, advocating for a hybrid funding model that supports researchers b
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