# Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman at Element Inc

> Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman at Element Inc. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

New York City, US · Angel

# Yann LeCun

Executive Chairman at [Adagia Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/adagia-partners)

Latest rounds

- **Enact Intelligence** Pre-seed · $30M Oct 2026
- **Perplexity AI** Series A Mar 2023

Backs *AI* *Robotics* *Hardware & Electronics*

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 2 none observed
- **Filings:** - with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 3 +5 mentions

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** No round names them yet
- **On filings** No filing names them
- ✓ **Linked to a firm** At Adagia Partners
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from the investor lists this database was built from, so read them as of their date.

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## The firm

[**Adagia Partners** Private equity · FR **0** cheques in 12 months **0** all time **0** led unknown](https://millionrounds.com/fund/adagia-partners)

## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 2
- **Led:** 0
- **Disclosed:** $30M
- **Active:** 2023–26

2026

- [Enact Intelligence](https://millionrounds.com/company/enact-intelligence) *Pre-seed* **$30M** *CH* Oct 2026 Joined · +11 investors

2023

- [Perplexity AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/perplexity-ai) *Series A* *US* Mar 2023 Joined · +9 investors

By stage

- Pre-seed **1**
- Series A **1**

What they backed

AI **2** Robotics **1** Hardware & Electronics **1**

Alongside

- [Ameet Patel *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ameet-patel)
- [Amjad Masad *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/amjad-masad)
- [Andrej Karpathy *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andrej-karpathy)
- [Andrew Lonsberry *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andrew-lonsberry)
- [Arthur Mensch *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/arthur-mensch)
- [Ashish Vaswani *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ashish-vaswani)
- [Clem Delangue *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/clem-delangue)
- [Elad Gil *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/elad-gil)

Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

- [Antescofo](https://millionrounds.com/company/antescofo)
- [Caption Health](https://millionrounds.com/startup/caption-health)
- [Faira](https://millionrounds.com/company/faira)
- [Wayve](https://millionrounds.com/company/wayve)

## Also at Adagia Partners

- [**Olivier Legrain** CEO *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/olivier-legrain)

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [Startup Europe](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sifted) · 15 Jul 2026 · 11 min Yann LeCun launched a new VC fund, then quit. What happened? With [Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) Mentions [Hiro Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/hiro-capital) About this episode Last Friday, Europe’s tech ecosystem was abuzz with the news AI godfather Yann LeCun was launching an AI VC firm. Then, hours later, he quit. This week on the podcast, reporter Maya Dharampal-Hornby joins host Freya Pratty to discuss the curious tale of Yann LeCun’s shortly-lived firm,… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [TBPN](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/tbpn) · 18 Nov 2025 · 27 min Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel’s Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN With [Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) About this episode Our favorite moments from today's show, in under 30 minutes. TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com Figma - https://figma.com Vanta - https://vanta.com Linear - https://linear.app Eight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpn Wander - https://wander.com/tbpn Public -… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 15 May 2023 · 55 min 20VC: Yann LeCun on Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Dominate Humanity, Why No Economists Believe All Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI, Why the Size of Models Matters Less and Less & Why Open Models Beat Closed Models With [Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) Mentions [David Marcus](https://millionrounds.com/fund/david-marcus) About this episode Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

### Mentioned in

Episodes that name Yann LeCun in their description, which is not the same as being on them.

- [The Neon Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/neon-show) · 23 Oct 2026 · 1h 25m Ex-Meta VP: ChatGPT Is Just the Trailer for What’s Coming Next Mentions [Sovereign AI](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sovereign-ai)[Manohar Paluri](https://millionrounds.com/person/manohar-paluri)[Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) About this episode Why would a top AI leader leave Meta at the peak of the AI boom? Manohar Paluri is the co-founder and CTO of Warp Sciences. Before that, he spent years at Meta, where he worked closely with Yann LeCun. He started his career as an intern, and his alma mater includes IIIT Hyderabad, SRI and Georgia… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [Startup Europe](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sifted) · 23 Sept 2026 · 18 min Is New York warming to European tech? Mentions [Bain Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bain-capital)[Bain Capital Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bain-capital-ventures)[FirstMark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/firstmark)[Matt Turck](https://millionrounds.com/fund/matt-turck)[Abby Meyers](https://millionrounds.com/person/abby-meyers)[Anish Acharya](https://millionrounds.com/person/anish-acharya) About this episode Senior reporter Anne Sraders has just spent two weeks in New York, and one thing was impossible to miss: AI was everywhere. From subway ads to investor breakfasts, it was the only conversation in town. "Everyone wants to find the next Anthropic for every other domain," Abby Meyers of Bain Capital… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [Startup Europe](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sifted) · 2 Apr 2026 · 45 min Tiny VC partner Philipp Moehring on when to take money off the table Mentions [Philipp Moehring](https://millionrounds.com/fund/philipp-moehring)[Tiny VC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tiny-supercomputer-investment-company)[Andy Chung](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andy-chung)[David Silver](https://millionrounds.com/person/david-silver-quilvest-capital-partners)[Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) About this episode European seed rounds are ballooning. Last month Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs picked up $1bn at a $3bn valuation while David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence was reported to be raising $1bn at a $4bn valuation. “Thankfully, the billion dollar seed round is not the standard across Europe, yet,” Philipp… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [The Neon Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/neon-show) · 6 Mar 2026 · 1h 9m The First AI Market With 8 Billion Potential Users | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest AI Mentions [Arjun Jain](https://millionrounds.com/person/arjun-jain)[Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) About this episode Will smaller AI models win over large language models? Sudarshan Kamath grew up in Mumbai, taught himself AI before most Indian companies were even hiring for it, and bought the domain "smallest.ai" for $100 in 2022, two years before the company existed. Today, he runs Smallest AI, a startup… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [Startup Europe](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sifted) · 27 Feb 2026 · 19 min What are world models, and are they Europe’s winning AI bet? Mentions [Yann LeCun](https://millionrounds.com/person/yann-lecun) About this episode The AI debate has been dominated by large language models used to power the likes of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. But could the next wave of AI look very different? Yes, some European AI watchers say. Attention is shifting to so-called “world models”, systems designed to build internal… Listen on Apple Podcasts

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