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Variant's AI portfolio
Variant has backed 10 AI startups in rounds we track, $660M between them, shown by the stage each has reached. The best-funded is Tools For Humanity.
Funding by segment
- Pre-seed and seed$107M6
- Series B$190M2
- Stage not reported$364M2
Where they are based
- United States9$624M
- Iceland1$36M
United States
IcelandFounded
2 without a founding year on record.
Total raised
- Under $1M0
- $1M to $10M4
- $10M to $50M4
- $50M to $250M1
- $250M to $1B1
- $1B and over0
Each dot is a startup: the year it was founded across, the total it has raised up (each line is ten times the one below). Pick a segment to pick it out.
8 of 10 startups shown; the rest have no founding year or amount on record.
- 1 to 2
- 3 to 7
- 8 to 24
- 25 to 99
- 100 and more
- United States9
- Iceland1
Startups by country, 2 countries in all.
Segment by segment
Pre-seed and seed
6 startups · $107M raised
- EEulerEuler provides an AI investment research app and financial services.Iceland$36M
- CContextConText offers conservation services for historic textiles, costume, and contemporary fiber art.United States$31M
Plastic LabsPlastic Labs is an engineering-driven AI lab that focuses on the intersection of machine learning and cognitive science.United States$19M
Pluralis ResearchPluralis Research is an AI research organization dedicated to developing decentralized and open-source methods for training and usUnited States$8.6M
ModulusModulus uses cryptography to verify that AI results weren't doctored.United States$6.6M
DaptaDapta is a Miami-based technology startup founded in 2023 by Nicolas Rojas Nino.United States$6.0M
Series B
2 startups · $190M raised
AugustusAugustus is a global payments and clearing platform, previously known as Ivy, founded in 2022 by Ferdinand Dabitz, Joshua Becker, United States$180M
OsiguOsigu is a Miami-based company founded in 2015 that offers a fully digital, AI-powered revenue cycle and claims management platforUnited States$10M
Stage not reported
2 startups · $364M raised
Tools For HumanityTools For Humanity specializes in software development, information technology, digital marketing, and advertising services.United States$355M
SapienSapien, also known as Sapien AI Corp., is a decentralized data foundry and Web3 data labeling platform founded in 2023 in San Francisco.United States$8.7M
How this map is made. Every startup here works in AI and has raised money in a round we track that names Variant as an investor. Each sits under the stage of its latest round. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.
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