We are operators, investors, and AI technologists who love supporting founders in their hero’s journey.
Vishal Maini, Founder & Managing Partner.
Jonathan Eng, Partner
Paul Gu, Partner
Farouk Rice, Chief of Staff
Allison Duettmann, Venture Partner
Unstoppable founders
- Ambition
- Integrity
- Energy
- Resourcefulness
- First-principles thinking
Building AGI-proof companies
- Path to defensibility vs. GPT-n systems
- Non-incremental technology improvements
- Positioned to benefit from AGI-era tailwinds & headwinds
- AI-native R&D and operations
Aimed towards positive civilization-scale impact
- Prosocial technologies
- Safety by design
- Positive externalities
The mythos of AI is as old as civilization itself. From the bronze automaton Talos to Percy Shelley’s The Modern Prometheus, drama and science fiction have long imagined non-living matter infused with the spark of intelligence.
Now, we are reaching the crescendo of a century-long arc of targeted scientific inquiry that has sought to answer Turing’s seminal question: “Can machines think?”
We expect the Cognitive Revolution that plays out over the coming decades to dwarf the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions in its economic significance. This phase transition will give rise to a wave of history-defining companies, as AI-native disruptors build the proverbial farms and factories of the future.
If humanity collectively plays its cards right, these startups will be part of an armada of efforts across the public and private sectors, academia, and civil society that helps our species cross the chasm across the acute risk period, progress down the technology tree alongside corresponding advances in social technologies and political economies, and ascend the Kardashev scale to become a successful and long-lasting interstellar civilization. Along the way, we will unlock answers to fundamental questions about the nature of reality and our place in it.
Meanwhile, there is a more cautionary tale at play. Humanity first developed a potentially civilization-ending technology by weaponizing the destructive power of nuclear fission in 1945, and again in 1972 with the Soviet biological weapons program. With AI and its derivative technologies, we are again rolling the dice. Humanity's future is contingent on wise and discerning action today.
Our aim with Mythos Ventures is to help humanity successfully navigate the transition to the age of superintelligence.