Early-Stage AI Venture Capital

Where Insight and AI
Shape the Future

We partner with founders at pre-seed through Series A and support the hard parts of building from day one.

How We Work

Built to support founders, not to slow them down.

We are collaborative when useful and invisible when not. Your job is to build the company—ours is to make that easier.

Founder-First Partnership

We trust founders to know their business best. Our role is to provide capital, context, and candor—not to second-guess your decisions or flood your inbox.

Hands-On When It Counts

Product strategy, hiring, go-to-market, fundraising—we roll up our sleeves on the problems that matter most at each stage, drawing on our own experience as founders and operators.

Network as a Resource

We connect you with the right engineers, customers, domain experts, and follow-on investors at the right time—not a mass intro list, but targeted introductions that move the needle.

Investment Philosophy

Conviction built on independent thinking, not market consensus.

We believe the best returns come from informed, original perspectives—amplified by technology, never replaced by it.

Independent Conviction

We form our views before checking the consensus. True insight lives where most investors aren’t looking—and we’d rather be non-consensus and right than safely average.

Human Judgment, AI-Amplified

AI handles the noise so we can focus on what matters: understanding founders, markets, and timing. Technology sharpens our process, but every conviction is human.

Depth Over Breadth

We go deep in the domains we know and stay honest about what we don’t. Concentrated expertise leads to better pattern recognition and better decisions.

Spotlight Companies

A few of the teams we're backing

Our Team

Former founders, engineers, and operators who've been on your side of the table. We know what early-stage building actually looks like — because we've done it ourselves.

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About Llama

Built by founders, focused on execution.

Llama Ventures invests early in AI-native companies across the full intelligence stack — from infrastructure to vertical applications.

We've raised capital, shipped products, and scaled teams ourselves — so our advice comes from experience, not theory.

$300M+

Direct Investing Fund Size

$600M+

Fund of Funds Size

$500K – $5M

Check Size

Pre-seed – Series A+

Stage

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Where Insight and AI Shape the Future