Mythos Ventures↗

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Funder·Founded 2023·San Francisco, CA, USA
“an early-stage venture capital firm investing in prosocial technologies for the transformative AI era”In its own words: mythos.vc
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A San Francisco early-stage VC firm founded by ex-DeepMind safety staffer Vishal Maini. It writes $100k-$2M pre-seed and seed checks into prosocial and safe-AI startups, so its money reaches AI safety through equity investment rather than grants.

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An early-stage (pre-seed and seed) VC that invests in prosocial, safety-by-design companies built to stay defensible as AI advances to AGI. It picks founding teams on its own criteria and lists no application process.

Says it gives about $14M a year (2023)

On applying “We invest in ambitious teams with defensible strategies that can scale to post-AGI.” mythos.vc

Led by Vishal Maini (Founder and General Partner)Its grants page ↗Checked 29 Oct 2026

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For-profits