The next era gets written by its builders.

The sharpest young builders, placed inside the defining companies of this era, working alongside the people already building the next ones.

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AI. Intelligence itself gets built. This one’s yours.

Altman · Amodei · You?

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01 — COMPANIES WE'VE BACKED

Early in the defining companies

AI safety and research

Anthropic

Dario Amodei — $940B

Artificial general intelligence

OpenAI

Sam Altman — $850B

AI software engineering

Cognition

Scott Wu — $48B

Finance automation

Ramp

Eric Glyman — $44B

Prediction markets

Kalshi

Tarek Mansour — $22B

AI inference chips

Etched

Gavin Uberti — $20B

AI talent marketplace

Mercor

Brendan Foody — $20B

Global payroll and HR

Deel

Alex Bouaziz — $17.3B

Workforce platform

Rippling

Parker Conrad — $16.8B

Plus Starcloud, Atum Works, OpenRouter, and hundreds more — see the full portfolio →

02 — SOMA

Built by builders

Soma and the Ranadives have been building and investing in startups for decades — making friends with brilliant “superhumans” on day 1, and being their best resource the entire path.

'90s–'10s

Tibco digitizes Wall Street. Profitable, public, and running inside 80% of the Fortune 500 before selling for $4.3B. Along the way, Vivek helped Steve Jobs pivot NeXT and put Google’s seed round together at his holiday party.

2013 →

The Ranadives buy the Sacramento Kings. Sports is the world’s common language. Team ownership seats presidents, CEOs, and founders at the same table, and it opens almost any door.

2015 →

Aneel Ranadive founds Soma Capital. The network becomes a fund: $2B AUM and 40+ seeded companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ramp, and Cognition.

We’ve introduced founders to everyone here.

Expanding on the TIBCO and NBA networks, Soma aims to be the most connected VC in the world. A few examples: putting together the presidential dinner at the White House, introducing Sanjay Mehrotra to Etched, John Chambers to Cognition, and many more.

As a fellow, the network is yours: one-on-one mentorship from executives who have run the companies you want to sell to, and dinners and events where you sit across the table from them.

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