SciFi VC

SciFi VC is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. Founded in 2011 by Max and Nellie Levchin, the firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. SciFi VC focuses on sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, and science, aiming to partner with exceptional founders solving complex problems that require intense curiosity and intellectual depth. The firm's investment philosophy centers on bringing unprecedented intellectual rigor to early-stage investing and providing deep domain expertise to support portfolio companies through critical product, strategy, and fundraising decisions. SciFi VC has invested in companies like Collective Health, Kalo, Suiteness, O(1) Labs, Blend, Wonder, SentiLink, Coinbase, SmithRx, Outline Insurance, Metabiota, and Clara Labs. The firm has also incubated Circadian Design. SciFi VC's mission is to bring science fiction to reality by actively investing in the commercialization of breakthrough technologies such as machine learning, CRISPR, robotics, and quantum computing. By studying these breakthroughs in-depth, SciFi VC aims to be true thought partners with companies bringing these advances to market. The firm seeks out exceptional founders in hard, regulated, or technical markets such as enterprise software, healthcare, and security. SciFi VC partners with ambitious founders exploring fintech, marketplaces, and other areas at the earliest stages of company formation, working together to define product and strategy before leading the seed round. In addition to making follow-on investments in its brainstorm and early-stage portfolio companies, SciFi VC opportunistically invests in later-stage companies with exceptional growth. The firm's investment stages include Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, and Series B, with a geographical focus on the United States. SciFi VC's asset class focus includes fintech, artificial intelligence, and science, and it has invested in various industries such as fintech, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, space exploration, quantum computing, enterprise software, healthcare, security, robotics, machine learning, CRISPR, quantum computing, labor marketplaces, digital marketplaces, and consumer internet. The firm's typical investment size ranges from $100,000 to $1,000,000.