Basis Set Ventures

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name: Basis Set Ventures
description: Basis Set Ventures is an AI-native, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Dr. Lan Xuezhao and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The firm invests at the seed and early
  stages in founders building artificial intelligence across AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, molecular and materials discovery, agentic development tooling, intelligent collaboration, and automated
  workflows. Basis Set announced a $250M Fund IV and describes itself as "the first capital when it's just you and your vision," pairing capital with an operator-led founder concierge team. Its public portfolio
  page lists 51 named companies plus 17 stealth investments across four themes (Scalable Infrastructure, Intelligent Collaboration, Automated Workflows, Autonomy); portfolio companies include Path Robotics,
  Quince, Sakana AI, Tigris Data, Mem0, OpenArt, Cusp, Simular, Vizcom, and Entire. This is an API Evangelist network profile of the firm; Basis Set Ventures does not publish a public API, developer portal,
  or SDKs, so this record captures firm identity, web properties, and derived security posture rather than API artifacts.
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  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
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  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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  onboarding: unknown
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  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-18'
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tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Seed Stage
- Early Stage
- AI Infrastructure
- Autonomous Systems
- Startups
- Seed
- San Francisco
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- Company
- Venture Capital
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Seed Stage
- Early Stage
- AI Infrastructure
- Autonomous Systems
- Startups
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- Seed
- San Francisco
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
- FN: Basis Set Ventures
  url: https://www.basisset.com
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  url: https://www.basisset.com
- type: Portfolio
  url: https://www.basisset.com/portfolio
- type: Team
  url: https://www.basisset.com/team
- type: About
  url: https://www.basisset.com/basis-set-faq
- type: Blog
  url: https://bsv.medium.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/basis-set/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/basisset
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5xM2NJvoKLJbBDHK9sobIg
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/basis-set-ventures-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/basis-set-ventures-llms.txt
- type: Portfolio
  url: portfolio/basis-set-ventures-portfolio.yml
- type: Jobs
  url: https://jobs.basisset.com
- type: Features
  name: Fund Facts
  data:
  - name: Stage
    value: Seed / early stage ("the first capital when it's just you and your vision")
  - name: Sectors
    value: 'AI: Scalable Infrastructure, Intelligent Collaboration, Automated Workflows, Autonomy'
  - name: Founded
    value: 2017 ("An AI-native venture fund since 2017")
  - name: Latest fund
    value: $250M Fund IV (announced on homepage)
  sources:
  - https://www.basisset.com/
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  updated: '2026-10-18'
x-enrichment:
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  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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