Laude Ventures

Overview

Laude Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with deeply technical founders to transform groundbreaking research into successful companies. The firm focuses on investing at the moment of discovery, providing the necessary resources and support to bring innovations to market. Laude Ventures is backed by a diverse group of investors, including over 50 leading computer scientists, many of whom are unicorn founders, esteemed academic professors, and research luminaries, including a Turing Award winner. The firm's investment strategy centers on sectors such as software infrastructure and artificial intelligence, targeting entrepreneurs with roots in technical research and innovation. Laude Ventures aims to ignite momentum and mobilize resources to help founders build paradigm-creating companies with global impact. The firm has invested in several companies, including Perplexity, a search engine startup, and Foundry, a GPU cloud provider. Laude Ventures was co-founded in 2024 by Pete Sonsini, Andy Konwinski, and Andrew Krioukov. The partners have extensive experience in growing world-changing ideas into multi-billion dollar companies, having worked alongside each other for years. Their shared vision is to connect the highest caliber researcher-founders with the resources, network, and experience necessary to build paradigm-creating companies. The firm's name, Laude, rhymes with 'applaud,' reflecting their belief in celebrating and supporting visionary technologists who are shaping the future through their discoveries.

Investment Focus

• Deeply technical founders with research backgrounds
• Innovations in software infrastructure and artificial intelligence
• Early-stage companies at the moment of discovery

Portfolio Companies