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AI Grant
AI-focused equity accelerator for pre-seed/seed AI startups, run day-to-day by Hersh Desai and Lenny Bogdonoff and backed by a $10M commitment from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross (who remain active public backers); participated in Reality Defender's $15M Series A (October 2023). Relaunched in Fall 2022 from an earlier (2017) non-dilutive open-source AI research grant program of the same name.
Overview
- Firm
- AI Grant (Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross)
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founded
- 2022
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