100 PEOPLE IN GLOBAL AI

Zhu Xiaohu

朱啸虎

Managing Partner

GSR Ventures

Outspoken venture investor focused on practical applied AI, SaaS, and the commercialization path of generative AI in China.

Neil Shen

沈南鹏

Founding & Managing Partner

HongShan (Sequoia China)

Founding partner of HongShan, one of Asia's most influential venture investors backing leading AI infrastructure and model companies.

Zhang Lei

张磊

Founder & CEO

Hillhouse Capital

Founder of Hillhouse, a long-term investor across technology, healthcare, and AI-native enterprises.

Bob Xu

徐小平

Founder

ZhenFund

Founder of ZhenFund, an early-stage investor backing AI founders across language models, robotics, and consumer AI.

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder & General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Co-founder of a16z, one of the most prolific AI investors backing model labs, infra, and consumer AI.

Marc Andreessen

Co-founder & General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Netscape co-founder and a16z general partner; lead author of 'Why AI Will Save the World' and one of the most influential AI capital allocators.

Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

a16z infra GP leading the firm's AI infrastructure and enterprise practice, ex-founder of Nicira.

Sarah Guo

Founder & Managing Partner

Conviction

Founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture firm investing across foundation models, dev tools, and applied AI.

Elad Gil

Solo Capitalist

Independent

One of the most active solo investors in AI, backing Perplexity, Character.AI, Harvey, Mistral and many more.

Vinod Khosla

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Sun Microsystems co-founder and Khosla Ventures founder; earliest institutional backer of OpenAI.

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner

Khosla Ventures

Founding partner at Khosla Ventures driving deep-tech and AI investments across science and industry.

Peter Thiel

Co-founder

Founders Fund

PayPal and Palantir co-founder; Founders Fund leads contrarian bets across defense AI, infra and frontier labs.

Brian Singerman

Partner

Founders Fund

Founders Fund partner, early backer of breakout AI and deep-tech companies.

Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

PayPal Mafia operator-investor backing AI-native consumer, fintech and vertical SaaS founders.

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder & Partner

Greylock / Inflection AI

LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, OpenAI/Inflection co-founder — a defining AI ecosystem builder.

Saam Motamedi

General Partner

Greylock

Greylock GP leading the firm's AI thesis, backing Adept, Cresta, Snorkel and more.

Alfred Lin

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner and former Zappos COO; backs AI-native marketplaces, agents and infrastructure.

Pat Grady

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia growth partner and co-author of 'Generative AI's Act II'; investor in OpenAI, Harvey, Glean.

Sonya Huang

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner leading the firm's generative-AI practice and co-author of seminal 'Generative AI' essays.

Doug Leone

Senior Partner

Sequoia Capital

Long-time Sequoia leader; backed Google, NVIDIA and many of today's AI compute giants.

Roelof Botha

Senior Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia senior steward, ex-PayPal CFO, leading the firm's AI-era investment strategy.

Bill Gurley

General Partner (Emeritus)

Benchmark

Legendary Benchmark partner and influential commentator on AI markets, regulation and platform power.

Peter Fenton

General Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark GP backing open-source and AI-native developer platforms.

Miles Grimshaw

General Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark GP investing in AI-first SaaS and data infrastructure.

Rick Yang

Partner

NEA

NEA partner backing AI infrastructure, applied AI and consumer companies.

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-founder & Partner

Floodgate

Floodgate co-founder and Stanford lecturer, early-stage investor in AI startups.

Mike Maples Jr.

Co-founder & Partner

Floodgate

Floodgate co-founder and 'Pattern Breakers' author backing AI-native breakouts.

Josh Kushner

Founder & Managing Partner

Thrive Capital

Thrive founder and major OpenAI backer, building one of the most concentrated AI portfolios in venture.

Philippe Laffont

Founder

Coatue Management

Coatue founder leading large-scale AI infrastructure, semiconductor and foundation-model investments.

Dan Rose

Chairman

Coatue Ventures

Coatue Ventures chairman and former Facebook executive backing AI-native consumer and enterprise companies.

Chase Coleman

Founder

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global founder; major crossover investor in AI infrastructure and applied AI scale-ups.

Scott Shleifer

Partner

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global partner directing large-scale growth investments across global AI companies.

Brad Gerstner

Founder & CEO

Altimeter Capital

Altimeter founder, host of BG2 Pod, and one of the most influential public-market AI investors.

Gavin Baker

Managing Partner & CIO

Atreides Management

Atreides CIO and prolific commentator on AI compute, semis and hyperscaler capex cycles.

Cathie Wood

Founder, CEO & CIO

ARK Invest

Founder of ARK Invest, publishing the most-read public research on AI, robotics and exponential technologies.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder & CEO

Social Capital

Social Capital founder and All-In Podcast co-host, backing AI-native growth and infrastructure plays.

David Sacks

Founder & General Partner

Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures founder, US 'AI & Crypto Czar', and All-In Podcast co-host shaping AI policy and capital.

Jason Calacanis

Founder

LAUNCH / Inside.com

Prolific angel investor and All-In Podcast co-host, backing dozens of early-stage AI startups.

Naval Ravikant

Co-founder

AngelList

AngelList co-founder, prolific seed investor and philosopher-investor of the AI era.

Balaji Srinivasan

Angel Investor

Independent

Former a16z GP and Coinbase CTO; prolific writer and angel investor at the intersection of AI and crypto.

Fred Wilson

Co-founder & Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV co-founder and long-time AVC blogger backing AI-native consumer and infrastructure companies.

Albert Wenger

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV managing partner and author of 'World After Capital' on AI's impact on labor and economy.

Rebecca Kaden

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV managing partner investing in AI-native consumer and education companies.

Jason Droege

Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark partner, former Uber Eats founder, backing AI-native consumer and marketplaces.

Matt Turck

Managing Director

FirstMark Capital

FirstMark MD, author of the MAD (ML/AI/Data) Landscape and Data Driven NYC organizer.

Shervin Pishevar

Co-founder

Sherpa Capital / Hyperloop One

Veteran investor backing AI-native marketplaces, defense AI and frontier infrastructure.

Nat Friedman

Co-founder

AI Grant / NFDG

Former GitHub CEO and AI Grant co-founder, leading the most-watched AI angel collective with Daniel Gross.

Daniel Gross

Co-founder

AI Grant / NFDG

Andromeda compute cluster builder and AI Grant co-founder, prolific backer of AI founders.

Lachy Groom

Solo Capitalist

Independent

Solo capitalist and former Stripe executive backing AI-native developer and infrastructure companies.

Oren Zeev

Founding Partner

Zeev Ventures

Solo capitalist behind Houzz, Audible and Tipalti, increasingly active in AI-native software.

Shaun Maguire

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner backing SpaceX, Watershed and frontier defense, science and AI companies.

Ian Hathaway

Partner

Haystack

Haystack partner investing at the seed stage in AI infrastructure and applied AI startups.

Semil Shah

General Partner

Haystack

Haystack GP and prolific seed investor across AI, fintech and consumer software.

Rajeev Misra

Founder & CEO

One Investment Management

Founder of One IM and architect of SoftBank Vision Fund; deploying global capital into AI infrastructure.

Masayoshi Son

孫正義

Chairman & CEO

SoftBank Group

SoftBank founder, anchor investor in Arm, OpenAI and Stargate AI infrastructure programs.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan

Governor

Public Investment Fund (PIF)

Head of Saudi Arabia's PIF, anchoring HUMAIN and sovereign AI infrastructure across the Gulf.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Managing Director & CEO

Mubadala Investment Company

CEO of Mubadala, deploying UAE sovereign capital into G42, AI compute and global AI champions.

Peng Xiao

Group CEO

G42

Group CEO of G42, anchoring the UAE's sovereign AI strategy from Falcon LLMs to gigawatt compute clusters.

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Chairman

G42 / MGX

Chairman of G42 and MGX, the UAE's AI-focused sovereign investment vehicle.

Lim Chow Kiat

CEO

GIC

CEO of Singapore's GIC, a leading sovereign LP in global AI infrastructure and venture funds.

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara

CEO

Temasek Holdings

Temasek CEO directing capital into AI, semiconductors and sustainable compute.

Nicolai Tangen

CEO

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)

Head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest equity owner of leading AI public companies.

Kathy Xu

徐新

Founder & Managing Partner

Capital Today

Founder of Capital Today; backed JD.com, Meituan and a generation of Chinese consumer-AI leaders.

Jixun Foo

符绩勋

Managing Partner

GGV Capital / Granite Asia

Managing partner at GGV/Granite Asia, leading cross-border AI, mobility and enterprise investments.

Hans Tung

童士豪

Managing Partner

Notable Capital

Notable Capital (formerly GGV US) managing partner, early backer of Xiaomi, ByteDance and global AI startups.

Anna Fang

方爱之

CEO & Partner

ZhenFund

CEO of ZhenFund, leading China's most active seed fund into AI agents, robotics and consumer AI.

Allen Zhu

朱啸虎

Managing Partner

GSR Ventures

Managing partner at GSR Ventures and outspoken voice on China's applied-AI commercialization.

Fu Sheng

傅盛

Founder & Chairman

Cheetah Mobile / OrionStar

Cheetah Mobile founder turned AI investor and builder, leading OrionStar service-robot platform.

JP Gan

甘剑平

Founding Partner

Ince Capital

Founding partner of Ince Capital, formerly Qiming, investing in China's AI infrastructure and SaaS.

Gary Rieschel

Founding Managing Partner

Qiming Venture Partners

Founder of Qiming Venture Partners and a leading cross-Pacific investor in AI, semis and healthcare.

William Bao Bean

General Partner

Orbit Startups / SOSV

SOSV/Orbit GP backing early-stage AI startups across emerging markets and Greater China.

Lee Kai-Fu Investor

Chairman & CEO

Sinovation Ventures

Chairman of Sinovation Ventures, backing China's leading AI-first startups including 01.AI portfolio companies.

Tu Hongtao

涂鸿涛

Partner

Hillhouse Capital

Hillhouse partner directing late-stage AI infrastructure and life-science investments in Asia.

Miao Zhenjiang

缪振江

Partner

Source Code Capital

Source Code Capital partner backing Chinese AI infrastructure, robotics and applied AI.

Cao Yi

曹毅

Founding Partner

Source Code Capital

Founder of Source Code Capital, early backer of ByteDance and many Chinese AI platform companies.

Fang Aizhi

方爱之

CEO

Real Fund (真成投资)

CEO of Real Fund investing in Chinese AI, robotics and frontier-tech founders.

Wu Shichun

吴世春

Founding Partner

Plum Ventures (梅花创投)

Founder of Plum Ventures, prolific Chinese early-stage investor across AI, robotics and SaaS.

Jiang Tao

蒋涛

Founder

CSDN / Boolan

Founder of CSDN and Boolan, leading angel investor in Chinese AI developer-tools companies.

Yang Jianbo

杨剑波

Managing Partner

Lightspeed China Partners

Lightspeed China partner backing AI infrastructure, foundation models and applied AI in Greater China.

Cyrus Shao

邵俊

Founding Partner

Detong Capital Partners

Founder of Detong Capital, investor in Chinese AI software, semiconductors and digital health.