Investment
and
support
for the next
generation of
artificial intelligence
founders
Investment
and
support
for the next generation of
artificial intelligence
founders
News
AI Seed Crowned Winner at UKBAA Awards
AI Seed kept its winning ways by walking off with Exit of the Year accolade at the 2025 UKBAA Angel Investment awards following its successful exit...
News
AI Seed Scoops Best Exit of the Year 2023 at BBI Awards
AI Seed was crowned Best Exit of Year 2023 at the British Business Investments Angel Investments Awards for their success with Odin Vision. During 2023, Odin...
INVESTMENT
AI Seed is an award-winning specialist AI venture capital fund with Europe’s most experienced AI investment team and its best-performing portfolio of pure-play, vertical AI investments.
Founded in 2017, our team of AI industry veterans has for nearly a decade demonstrated an unmatched ability to cut through the hype and invest in AI category leaders before anyone else.
We evaluate 1000+ AI software companies in diverse industries every year through AI Seed’s global network of the world’s best AI technical talent, accelerators, universities and research institutions.
Fund I has invested in 50+ AI companies and delivered one AI unicorn, five successful exits and an investment return of 6x+, with more AI unicorns, more exits and higher returns expected soon.
SUPPORT
AI Seed’s investment team are successfully exited tech founders who have built and sold their own startups, and the resources and support we offer our portfolio companies is unmatched.
Built up over nearly a decade, AI Seed’s specialist AI investment knowledge and global AI network allows us to provide transformative value-creation to our investments.
We understand the unique needs and challenges of AI, and we provide hands-on support that delivers game-changing results to our portfolio companies:
- Access to AI Seed’s network of the world’s best AI entrepreneurs
- Support acquiring the best AI talent and expanding internationally
- Transformative introductions to AI commercial partners and customers
- Specialised technical and operational resources for AI scaling and growth
- Laying the foundations for long-term AI defensibility and future acquisition or IPO
TEAM
Michael Axelgaard (Founder and Managing Partner)
Michael is the founder of AI Seed and has led its investment decisions since 2017. Previously, he built his own medical software startup Inmedico and sold it to Natus Medical.
He holds a BSc in Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MPhil in Scientific Computing and Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University.
Jacques de Cock (Managing Partner)
Jacques has over 30 years of startup experience. Previously, he grew his own fintech software startup Patsystems from a six-man team to an IPO on the main London Stock Exchange.
He holds a BA and an MA in Physics from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School where he is Entrepreneur in Residence.
Steve Weis (Managing Partner)
Steve is a senior product infrastructure engineer at Anthropic. Previously, he built his own security software startup PrivateCore and sold it to Meta.
Steve holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley, a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.
Support Staff
AI Seed’s Managing Partners are supported by General Partners who provide operational support and Principals who provide administrative support.
PORTFOLIO
Odin Vision (Acquired)
Rahko (Acquired)
Observe (Acquired)
Facesoft (Acquired)
