Firms

Basis Set Ventures

San Francisco, California, US

basisset.com

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Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on scaling human potential with artificial intelligence. It focuses on seed and Series A investments, writing checks typically between $1 million and $3 million. The firm invests in enterprise companies, concentrating on scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows,and autonomous machines. Basis Set Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded: 2017
Type: Venture capital

Team

John Mannes Basis Set Ventures, partner	$3M$1M – $5M	San Francisco, California
Lan Xuezhao Basis Set Ventures, managing_partner	$2M$1M – $5M	San Francisco, California
Sheila Vashee Basis Set Ventures, Partner	$2M$1M – $5M	San Francisco, California
Chang Xu Basis Set Ventures, partner	$2M$1M – $3M	San Francisco, California
Wilson Kyi Basis Set Ventures, partner	$2M$1M – $3M	San Francisco, California
Catherine Stewart Basis Set Ventures, Venture Partner	—— – —
Dr. Lan Xuezhao Basis Set Ventures, Founder & Partner	—— – —
Fahad Noor Basis Set Ventures, Staff Engineer	—— – —
Ingrid Chen Basis Set Ventures, Controller & Partner	—— – —
Javier Fernandez Basis Set Ventures, Brand Designer	—— – —
JB Michel Basis Set Ventures, Venture Partner	—— – —
Jennifer Lee Basis Set Ventures, General Counsel & Partner	—— – —
Lisa Chen Basis Set Ventures, Operations Manager	—— – —
Muhammad Ammad Basis Set Ventures, Staff Engineer	—— – —
Rachel Wong Basis Set Ventures, CTO & Partner	—— – —
Sebastien Boyer Basis Set Ventures, Venture Partner	—— – —

$—2026-06-09	Orbital Inc.	Basis Set Ventures
$21M2026-05-08	Basata	Basis Set Ventures, Victoria Treyger
$15M2026-04-02	Daydream	Basis Set Ventures, First Round
$—2026-03-11	Quince	ICONIQ Capital, Basis Set Ventures
$50M2026-02-25	Rowspace	Sequoia, Emergence Capital, Basis Set Ventures, Stripe, Conviction Partners, Twine Ventures, Darian Shirazi
$60M2026-02-10	Entire	Felicis, Basis Set Ventures, Aydin Senkut
$500M2026	Quince	Basis Set Ventures, ICONIQ Capital
$—2026	OpenArt	Basis Set Ventures
$—2025-12-16	DataLane	Amplify Partners, Basis Set Ventures
$21M2025-12-02	Simular	Felicis, Basis Set Ventures
$—2025-11-06	Flint	Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, Afore Capital, Patron
$24M2025-10-29	Mem0	Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Kindred Ventures, GitHub Fund
$100M2025-09-10	CuspAI	Basis Set Ventures, Northzone, Mandeep Singh
$—2025-07-22	Quince	8VC, Basis Set Ventures, ICONIQ Capital
$2M2025-04-14	Octolane AI	Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners AG, General Catalyst, Basis Set Ventures
$—2025	Tigris Data	Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures
$22M2024-11-18	Seen Health	Basis Set Ventures, Sebastian Caliri
$—2024-07-23	Momentum	Basis Set Ventures
$—2024-07-10	Beeble	Basis Set Ventures
$—2024-06-30	Norm Ai	Basis Set Ventures
$30M2024-06-18	CuspAI	Lightspeed, Hoxton Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Giant Ventures, Working Capital Fund, Tiferes Ventures, Northzone, Zero Prime Ventures, Lan Xuezhao, Michiel Kotting
$—2024-01-23	Norm Ai	Basis Set Ventures
$12M2024-01-17	Recraft	Khosla Ventures, Abstract Ventures, RTP Global, Basis Set Ventures, GitHub Fund, Nikita Shamgunov
$—2024	Echo Labs	Basis Set Ventures
$—2024	Talofa Games	Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures
$300K2024	Nowadays	Y Combinator, Decacorn Capital, Basis Set Ventures, SBXi, Underdog Labs
$25M2023-09-26	Series	Basis Set Ventures, Day One Ventures, Pear VC, Mario Gabriele, Annelies Gamble
$—2023-09-25	Elicit	Fifty Years, Seth Bannon, Basis Set Ventures
$—2022-10-01	Trendsi	Lightspeed, Sierra Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Footwork
$4M2022-09-20	Dynamo AI	Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures
$—2022-08-25	ViaVia	Basis Set Ventures
$15M2022-05-04	Allocate	Basis Set Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners
$—2022-03-15	Rutterapi	Basis Set Ventures
$27M2022-03-15	Rutter	Y Combinator, Haystack, Basis Set Ventures, Mischief, Jim Lanzone, Lan Xuezhao
$—2022	Spice AI	Basis Set Ventures
$3M2021-10-01	Orchest	Basis Set Ventures, Gradient Ventures
$4M2021-08-26	Playbook	Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, BACKED VC, Inovia Capital, WS Investment Company, Maple VC, Basis Set Ventures
$5M2021-07-22	Allocate	Basis Set Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners
$—2021-05-03	Path Robotics	Basis Set Ventures
$16M2021-03-12	Assembled	Basis Set Ventures, Felicis
$30M2021-03-10	DataGrail	Felicis, Basis Set Ventures, Victoria Treyger
$8M2020-10-12	Quince	Founders Fund, 8VC, Basis Set Ventures
$10M2020-09-28	Snappr	Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures
$10M2020-05-07	WorkStream	Founders Fund, CRV, Basis Set Ventures, Lattice, Zoom Video Communications, DoorDash, Lattice, Anna Khan, Chang Xu, Lan Xuezhao, Keith Rabois
$—2019-07-31	Cognition IP	Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, Mayfield Fund
$52M2019-02-05	Ike	Bain Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Basis Set Ventures, Neo
$5M2018-06-19	Falkonry	Basis Set Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, Mark Gorenberg, Lan Xuezhao
$7M2017-07-19	Clara Labs	Sequoia, The Slack Fund, First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, First Round, Lan Xuezhao
$—Unknown date	Gravity	Basis Set Ventures
$—Unknown date	BNTO	Basis Set Ventures
$15MUnknown date	Flint	Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, Afore Capital, Patron
$10MUnknown date	Synthetic	Khosla Ventures, Basis Set Ventures
$4MUnknown date	Dynamo AI	Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures
$22MUnknown date	Elicit	Fifty Years, Basis Set Ventures, Spark Capital, Footwork
$13MUnknown date	Valius Sciences	Compound, 8VC, Basis Set Ventures
$—2026-06-11	Neion	Basis Set Ventures
$—2026-02-25	Quill Meetings	Basis Set Ventures
$—2025-04-28	Cheehoo Labs, Inc.	Basis Set Ventures
$—2022-09-08	Spice	Basis Set Ventures
$—2021-11-02	Whimsical	Accel, Basis Set Ventures
$—Unknown date	Teal Dev	Basis Set Ventures
$—Unknown date	Quill Notes	Basis Set Ventures
$—Unknown date	OpenArt AI, Inc.	Basis Set Ventures
$—Unknown date	Basata Ai	Basis Set Ventures

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