Radical Ventures

Radical Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto that invests exclusively in artificial intelligence and deep tech companies. The firm was founded in 2017 by Jordan Jacobs (Managing Partner), Tomi Poutanen and Maks Volkovs - the creators of Layer 6 AI (acquired by TD Bank) and co-founders of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, with which the firm maintains close institutional ties. Radical Ventures invests across stages, from early rounds to scale-ups, focusing on startups building and using AI ('AI eats software'). According to available sources the firm manages roughly $1.8B in assets and raised a dedicated AI fund of nearly $800M. Its portfolio includes Cohere, Waabi, Writer, TwelveLabs, Reka, Hebbia, Genesis Therapeutics, Aspect Biosystems, Muon Space, CentML and You.com. The firm is strongly connected to the AI research community - leading scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li are publicly associated with it. Radical Ventures is also one of the investors in Discovery Loop.