OpenAI Alums Have Been Quietly Investing From A New, Potentially $100M Fund
OpenAI veterans quietly launch Zero Shot, a $100M venture capital fund already backing AI startups. Here is what they are betting on and avoiding.
Matilda
OpenAI Alums Have Been Quietly Investing From A New, Potentially $100M Fund
OpenAI Alumni Launch $100M AI Venture Fund That Is Already Writing Checks A group of former OpenAI insiders has quietly launched a new venture capital fund called Zero Shot, and it has already made its first close toward a $100 million target. The founding team has roots deep inside the AI lab that built ChatGPT, and they are already deploying capital into startups they believe the broader market has missed. Who Is Behind the Zero Shot Fund
Zero Shot is co-founded by five partners, three of whom are OpenAI veterans. Evan Morikawa served as head of applied engineering during the landmark launches of DALL-E, ChatGPT, and Codex. Andrew Mayne was the original prompt engineer at OpenAI and now hosts a widely followed AI podcast while running an AI deployment consultancy called Interdimensional. The third OpenAI alum is Shawn Jain, an engineer and researcher who later became a venture capitalist and founded his own generative AI startup, Synthefy. Rounding out the founding team are Kelly Kovac…
