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- Oct 16, 2026Oct 16, 2026Invested in Elorian (Seed, $55M) TechCrunch
- Aug 5, 2026Aug 5, 2026Jeff Dean Launches Discovery Loop With Google Backing Pulse story
Portfolio
3 totalRecent Investment Activity
1Track record: led 0 and participated in 1 of 1 tracked venture round · 1 in the last 12 months
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | Elorian | Seed | Participated | $55M | $300M | Striker Venture PartnersLeadunverifiedMenlo VenturesLeadunverifiedAltimeter CapitalLeadunverifiedNvidiaunverifiedJeff Deanunverified | TechCrunch |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI
2 · 67%
AI infra
1 · 33%
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Latest Pulse
- Oct 16, 2026Elorian Launches Glimpse, Its First Visual-Reasoning AI ModelElorian, a Palo Alto startup led by ex-DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, launched Glimpse, its first AI model, six months after emerging from stealth in April with $55M in seed funding at a $300M valuation. Glimpse is a visual-reasoning model that re-examines images mid-answer.→
- Oct 6, 2026Khosla Picks Wajo To Win The AI Agent Trust WarVinod Khosla is publicly betting on Wajo, a trust-focused AI agent from ex-Google/DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar that's already drawn angel backing from Jeff Dean and Gokul Rajaram.→
- Oct 1, 2026Volantis Raises $88M To Build Photonic AI ChipsVolantis raised an $88 million Series A led by angel investor Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures to commercialize a photonic chip architecture aimed at AI inference memory and bandwidth bottlenecks.→
- Sep 28, 2026AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2BAMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup World Labs, a direct answer to Nvidia's own world-model push and its pending Hugging Face acquisition.→
- Aug 12, 2026DeepMind's Talent Exodus Reveals a Deeper Identity CrisisDays after Demis Hassabis stepped down as DeepMind CEO, Fortune reports stalled models, missed deadlines and staff burnout drove the exodus, with engineers telling the outlet DeepMind is losing its separation and identity within Alphabet.→
- Aug 7, 2026Why the AI Labs Just Rewired Their Org ChartsHassabis moving to chair, Jeff Dean's exit, and Anthropic's new chip team all landed in one week -- a trace take on what it means that frontier labs are restructuring around infrastructure, not research.→
- Aug 6, 2026Google's AI Shake-Up Raises Pichai Succession QuestionsGoogle moved Demis Hassabis from DeepMind CEO to chair and chief scientist while Jeff Dean departed, a reshuffle analysts read as an early signal in the succession conversation around CEO Sundar Pichai.→
- Aug 5, 2026Google in Talks to Pay $1.5B for Mechanize's TechGoogle is negotiating a roughly $1.5 billion deal to license Mechanize's AI coding technology and hire its model-evaluation staff, following the acquihire playbook it used on Windsurf.→
- Aug 5, 2026Jeff Dean Launches Discovery Loop With Google BackingJeff Dean left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI research startup automating scientific discovery, with Google staying on as a founding investor and cloud partner.→
- Aug 5, 2026Jeff Dean Exits Google, Hassabis Steps Down as CEOChief scientist Jeff Dean and three senior AI researchers left Google to start an independent lab called Discovery Loop, while Demis Hassabis moved from DeepMind CEO to Alphabet chief scientist as Kavukcuoglu takes over daily operations.→
Jeff Dean FAQ
What companies has Jeff Dean invested in?
Jeff Dean's portfolio includes Elorian, World Labs, Bespoke Labs.
Who does Jeff Dean co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, Jeff Dean most often invests alongside Nvidia (2 shared deals), 8VC (1 shared deal), Altimeter Capital (1 shared deal), AMD Ventures (1 shared deal), Andreessen Horowitz (1 shared deal).
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