Richard Socher is the founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures, an AI-focused venture firm. See portfolio and contact routes.
Richard Socher is the founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures, an AI-focused venture firm, while also serving as CEO of Recursive and you.com, building on a background as former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and a Stanford PhD in deep learning. His investment thesis centers exclusively on artificial intelligence, targeting startups across all stages but with a focus on early-stage STAGES in the AI SECTOR, primarily within the United States. Socher typically acts as an angel investor with a check size that is not publicly specified, though he has backed over 30 startups and 16 funds, often participating as a lead or active mentor. Notable portfolio companies include you.com, an AI search infrastructure company, Recursive, which pursues recursive self-improving superintelligence, and MetaMind, an earlier venture he founded that was acquired by Salesforce. A distinctive point of view for Socher is his public advocacy for recursive self-improving AI to automate knowledge discovery, alongside his co-authorship of the influential GloVe word-embedding algorithm in 2014. He is recognized as a Time100 AI leader and frequently speaks on the boundari
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