Ainhoa Maiz

Powering the next generation of AI startups | Kauffman Fellow

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
VC🌍 United States
15
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6
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Sep 2024
Basecamp Research is an AI company dedicated to solving the most pressing challenges in the life sciences by exploring beyond known biology. The company discovers and designs proteins with artificial intelligence trained on its proprietary knowledge graph of nature, the largest and most diverse of its kind, to design biological solutions for pharma, food and industrial applications. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. Were a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from natures diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. – BCR
Investor
2024
AI will browse and consume more content than humans ever will. With TollBit, websites can monitor and block AI bot traffic, and implement a toll to charge every AI visitor for sanctioned access to create a fair value exchange.
Investor
2024
🌐Unveiling Remote Patient Intervention and a New Era of Clinical AI 🚀 At UpDoc, we are introducing a new care delivery model-- Remote Patient Intervention (RPI)-- defined as when an AI acts on Remote Patient Monitoring data to deliver clinical care. RPI was conducted for the first time in patients in a Stanford clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open where the term was coined. Through RPI, UpDoc aims to transform how care is practiced to truly improve healthcare quality and reduce costs for our patients. By accompanying clinical visits with physician-supervised “AI encounters”, our aim is to not only scale the most expensive part of the healthcare delivery system-- the provider-- but also improve quality, speed, and convenience for patients. In the Stanford MIVA Trial, RPI resulted in 5X more clinical delivery with the same labor while simultaneously improving medication adherence by 65% and chronic disease control by 3X.
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2024
Rivio is a San Francisco-based AI technology company built for modern procurement teams that need to make better decisions, faster, and with confidence. Powered by Sheldon, Rivio embeds world-class procurement data and expertise directly into sourcing and negotiation workflows, helping teams capture repeatable savings, expand coverage without adding headcount, and build institutional knowledge that compounds over time Rivio is backed by Gradient Ventures, MIT, and S32, with strategic advisors from Meta, Apple, and other leading technology companies.
Investor
2023
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
Board Observer
2023
🧩🎉 Dont let the financial future of your startup keep you up at night - Puzzle is here to help. 🚨🥳 We empower founders with the foresight they need to stay ahead with smart accounting software that integrates seamlessly into their business operations and offers real-time insights for an accurate picture of fiscal health. 🔎📈 Stop playing the guessing game; get smart about how you manage your business now for a better future.
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2022
Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries. Built on owned infrastructure, powered by AI, and supported by thousands of local experts, Deel helps businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, and created to become a global brand people love. Learn more at deel.com.
Investor
2022
Technology for issuing, processing, and managing credit, debit, and prepaid card businesses in Latin America
Board Observer
2022
Medcrypt provides data security as a service to medical device OEMs. From medical imaging devices to pacemakers, Medcrypt ensures that devices act only on instructions from trusted sources.
Board Observer
2021
Ecomedes manages the most comprehensive database of green certifications across the widest range of products. Our enterprise-grade cloud software platform dedicated to simplifying sustainable decision-making for responsible resource management. It provides manufacturers, CRE owners, and construction project teams with tools and information to make informed choices regarding sustainable product selection and procurement to help reduce both building costs and climate impact. The platform offers the most comprehensive database of certifications across the widest range of products, and the Mortarr.com visual designer collaboration suite. Users can search on specific sustainability criteria such as energy efficiency, recycled content, or environmental certifications or can search by design inspiration. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, you can learn more at our website www.ecomedes.com.
Board Member
2021
Pod Foods is a logistics-enabled, data-powered B2B marketplace for wholesale food distribution
mid stageWholesale
Board Observer
2020
Acerta helps automotive manufacturers optimize production, improve quality, and make the right decisions fast by analyzing their manufacturing data in real time using machine learning. We built LinePulse, an advanced manufacturing quality analytics platform that helps discrete manufacturers detect, diagnose, and prevent defects — fast. By analyzing production data in real time with machine learning, LinePulse identifies anomalies, predicts failures, and provides actionable insights to improve quality and reduce costly problems like scrap and rework.
Board Observer
2020
A 360o asset intelligence platform designed to reduce costs, increase throughput and eliminate unplanned downtime in manufacturing.
Board Observer
2020
Hunters is a Human-Driven, AI-Powered Next-Gen SIEM that revolutionizes the way SOCs operate. Hunters automates the entire TDIR process, replacing repetitive human work with machine-powered detection, enrichment, correlation, prioritization, triage, and investigation, freeing analysts to proactively protect their organizations. Hunters utilizes an open security data lake architecture, ensuring complete and cost-effective coverage of the entire security stack. Companies like Booking.com and Snowflake use Hunters to empower their security teams. Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake, Databricks, and Okta.
Investor
Jul 2019
M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund. We invest across key focus areas in the most promising early-stage companies that are disrupting markets in the business of today and tomorrow.
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Basecamp Research is an AI company dedicated to solving the most pressing challenges in the life sciences by exploring beyond known biology. The company discovers and designs proteins with artificial intelligence trained on its proprietary knowledge graph of nature, the largest and most diverse of its kind, to design biological solutions for pharma, food and industrial applications. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. Were a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from natures diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. – BCR
Investor
2024
AI will browse and consume more content than humans ever will. With TollBit, websites can monitor and block AI bot traffic, and implement a toll to charge every AI visitor for sanctioned access to create a fair value exchange.
Investor
2024
🌐Unveiling Remote Patient Intervention and a New Era of Clinical AI 🚀 At UpDoc, we are introducing a new care delivery model-- Remote Patient Intervention (RPI)-- defined as when an AI acts on Remote Patient Monitoring data to deliver clinical care. RPI was conducted for the first time in patients in a Stanford clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open where the term was coined. Through RPI, UpDoc aims to transform how care is practiced to truly improve healthcare quality and reduce costs for our patients. By accompanying clinical visits with physician-supervised “AI encounters”, our aim is to not only scale the most expensive part of the healthcare delivery system-- the provider-- but also improve quality, speed, and convenience for patients. In the Stanford MIVA Trial, RPI resulted in 5X more clinical delivery with the same labor while simultaneously improving medication adherence by 65% and chronic disease control by 3X.
Investor
2024
Rivio is a San Francisco-based AI technology company built for modern procurement teams that need to make better decisions, faster, and with confidence. Powered by Sheldon, Rivio embeds world-class procurement data and expertise directly into sourcing and negotiation workflows, helping teams capture repeatable savings, expand coverage without adding headcount, and build institutional knowledge that compounds over time Rivio is backed by Gradient Ventures, MIT, and S32, with strategic advisors from Meta, Apple, and other leading technology companies.
2023
Investor
2023
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
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