Firms

IBM Ventures

New York, New York

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IBM Ventures is IBM’s corporate venture investment and startup partnership unit. It backs early-stage enterprise AI, hybrid-cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and quantum-computing companies, and helps portfolio teams develop commercial relationships and products across IBM’s technical and enterprise-customer ecosystem. Its dedicated Enterprise AI Venture Fund launched in November 2023 with a $500 million corporate capital commitment.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

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IBM Enterprise AI Venture Fund2023-11-072023-11-07$500M
IBM’s corporate venture allocation for early-stage and growth companies developing enterprise AI, open AI architectures and related infrastructure. Launched with a $500 million commitment funded by IBM, with technical and commercial support from IBM Ventures.

Team

Christoph Auer-Welsbach

IBM Ventures, Partner

$25K$15K – $50K

New York, New York

Operations and support

Ana LopesOperating Partner

Austin FlonPortfolio and Platform Team (exact formal title not publicly disclosed)

Chase ArimaInvestment Team (exact formal title not publicly disclosed)

Daniel A. PaezInvestment and Portfolio Development Team (exact formal title not publicly disclosed)

Dartagnan HowellHead of Strategy

Emily FontaineVice President and Global Head of Venture Capital

Lauren HolcombTeam Member (exact formal title not publicly disclosed)

Matt TilleyVentures Platform and Growth Leader

Sebastian BuennerPortfolio Development (exact formal title not publicly disclosed)

Investments

$33M2024-10-22	Reality Defender	Y Combinator, DCVC, IBM Ventures, Partnership Fund for New York City, Illuminate Financial, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ali Tamaseb
$116M2022-07-12	SingleStore	Sanabil Investments, Dell Technologies Capital, Insight Partners, Goldman Sachs, GV (Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Ventures, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., GV

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IBM Ventures is distinct from native parent corporate Company IBM; preserve both identities. The authenticated issuer release uses IBM masterbrand logo; no separate unit wordmark invented. Own unit website has no full named staff directory. Nine individually primary-published people are included, with precise title gaps labeled. Historical unit staff, future co-op return offers and unrelated corporate staff are excluded. No 2023 founding date inferred from the first dedicated fund. Current team source: individual primary sources stored on named roles. No historic Signal role end dates inferred. Where the current directory provides a newer formal role, the corresponding current native role is reused or the sole generic listing is updated; historic records and import references remain preserved.

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