An AI venture fund rooted in
hands-on co-creation and
venture building

Born with the co-creation DNA of a venture studio, evolved into a global AI fund manager. We wield the hands-on intensity of our co-creation origins in every investment—through multiple stages across the Bay Area and Southeast Asia.

A track record of conviction in data and AI from 2012 to today

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WHY THE HIVE

The value we bring to our portfolio

Access and ideation

Sourcing breakthrough opportunities through our ecosystem: co-creations with corporations, academic spin-offs from Stanford and UMich, serial entrepreneurs, and The Hive Think Tank's 11K+ member community. Many of our portfolio stars began as co-creations where we were involved from concept ideation through commercial growth.

Validation

Testing product feasibility and viability with enterprise design partners. Our corporate ecosystem provides access to Fortune 500s and more for stress-testing in product design, pilots and proof-of-concept deployments.

Refinement and Build

In-house technical and strategic input on product architecture, unit economics, and AI implementation. Deep technical guidance from advisors with C-level track records at established big tech like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and CrowdStrike.

Growing Team

Access to top-tier talent from deep pools in the Bay Area (serial entrepreneurs, deep-tech engineers) and Southeast Asia (capital-efficient talent, domain experts). We help complete teams, not just fill roles.

Driving Revenue

Commercial expansion through our corporate ecosystem and strategic platform partners. Portfolio companies gain immediate GTM access via partners like NVIDIA, Databricks, and Snowflake, plus enterprise customers across a range of verticals in America and Southeast Asia.

Expansionary Funding & Exit

Building fundraising narratives, connecting with growth investors, and identifying strategic acquirers. Our track record includes exits to big tech and Fortune 500s including Rakuten, VMware, GE, Qualcomm, Johnson Controls, and Cisco.

The Hive’s DNA

We Have Built, Not Just Backed

We have been founders, operators and builders before. We have helped build companies from scratch, navigated product-market fit, raised capital and driven exits.

We understand what issues founders face and when to help versus when to step back. We bring operator empathy, not interference.

Driven by Conviction

We have nearly 15 years of AI and data conviction across every major platform wave. We invest based on deep technical understanding and a long-term vision.

This conviction enables us to back category-defining businesses early on, when they are still non-obvious.

Ecosystem Builders

We don't build companies in silos. Our strategic platform partnerships, corporate relationships, network of founders, C-level executives and cross-continental relationships create a living ecosystem.

Our portfolio gains access to an ecosystem that keeps strengthening as we scale.

True Partnership

We support our portfolio hyper-actively at every stage, depending on what’s needed and when.

Our startups have sat with us in our offices in the Bay Area and Kuala Lumpur. We're not remote advisors. We're in the room, solving problems together.