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Helen Liang, Phd

Founder & Managing Partner of FoundersX Ventures. Board Director. Featured on WSJ and Business Insider. Invited Speaker at TechCrunch. Guest lecturer at Stanford. Nvidia VC Alliance Partner.

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 78 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
VC🌍 United States50+ investmentsInvested this year
78
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52
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13
Mid stage
5
Late stage
11y
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Mar 2026
Idilio TV will be the next media giant for the Western world—faster, cheaper, and made for the mobile generation. https://www.idilio.tv/
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Jan 2026
World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company. Our mission is to empower and augment humanitys capabilities, transforming how we live and work by advancing spatial and physical intelligence - enabling AI to model the world and reason about objects, places, and interactions across space and time. It is the foundation for both creating worlds and interacting within them: perceiving the world around us, anticipating the consequences of actions, and operating reliably in both virtual and physical worlds. The world models we are building today are the foundation of that future — one that truly empowers people and businesses by augmenting humanitys capabilities for how we work and live, revolutionizing storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and beyond. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. World Labs was founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li alongside Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and Christoph Lassner, leaders in machine learning, generative AI, computer vision, and graphics. Today, our team spans research, engineering, robotics, product, design, and business, creating a tight feedback loop between frontier research and products and solutions that empower our customers and partners. Excited about our vision? Come join us.
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Sep 2025
We use multimodal AI and 3D simulation to create interactive, real-time TV. Founded by MIT graduates and backed by Y Combinator, we’re a deep-tech company redefining how stories are experienced.
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Jul 2025
Teach robots new skills through natural language and run reliably in production in minutes.
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Mar 2025
AI agents for Audit.
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Jun 2024
💸 As seen in @forbes @techcrunch @ycombinator @nytimes @fortunemag Were live on the app store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alinea-insightful-investing/id1554623825
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Jun 2024
USDC-Smart Neobank for Latinos.
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Mar 2024
We sequence proteins. Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology startup revolutionizing the field of proteomics. While DNA can reveal biological insights, proteins actually tell us what our bodies will do. We are developing a first-of-its-kind, next-generation protein sequencing platform to enable researchers to gain novel insights into biology and disease.
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Dec 2023
Streamlined communication for scientific collaborations
early stage
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Nov 2023
DreamFlare Media Partners is a technology driven studio and multi-channel network focused on developing and scaling content across formats and platforms.
Investor & Board Advisor
Sep 2023
At Linvest21, were not just participating in the financial services industry - were reshaping it. Our mission is to harness the power of artificial intelligence to create smarter, more efficient, and more accessible financial solutions for businesses and individuals alike. We envision a future where financial decision-making is powered by advanced AI, making it faster, more accurate, and more inclusive than ever before. Linvest21 is at the forefront of this transformation, developing cutting-edge AI technologies that are revolutionizing how financial services are delivered and consumed. Our team of world-class data scientists and financial experts are continuously pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI in finance. We understand that every client is unique. Our AI-powered platforms adapt to individual needs, providing tailored financial advice and services. By leveraging machine learning and big data analytics, we offer insights and predictions that far surpass traditional methods. Were making sophisticated financial tools and advice accessible to a broader range of clients, from individual investors to large institutions. Whether youre a potential client looking to leverage our AI-driven financial solutions, or a talented professional eager to shape the future of finance, Linvest21 offers exciting opportunities. Were always on the lookout for innovative minds to join our team and help us continue pushing the boundaries of whats possible in financial services. Connect with us to learn more about how Linvest21 is using AI to create a smarter, more efficient financial future for all.
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Sep 2023
Solve Intelligence is the leading AI patent solution for IP teams and legal professionals globally. Over 400 IP teams across 6 continents use Solve Intelligence’s AI patent software for patent application drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, 20VC and Visionaries, Solve Intelligence has raised a total of $55m in funding to build the world’s leading AI patent tools to support the end-to-end workflows of IP teams and legal professionals. Our goal is simple: if it touches patents, you should be able to do it faster, better, and more collaboratively in Solve Intelligence. With a growing team of world-leading engineers and patent attorneys, Solve Intelligence is actively hiring across a number of roles: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs If you are a patent practitioner, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us
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Jul 2023
Jericho Security is on a mission to defend the world from the new threats of generative AI cyber attacks. We created our proprietary generative AI, CyberGPT, to simulate attacks, create new defenses and educate your teams about how to prevent serious losses from cyberattacks. With unparalleled expertise in sophisticated analytics and top-of-the-line educational frameworks, we are committed to defending others from the unimaginable scale and volume of attacks that only AI can unleash.
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Jul 2023
Building the worlds largest immune databank to inform therapy and develop diagnostics through a convergence of high-resolution immune cell sequencing and artificial intelligence. We bring together bright minds from multiple disciplines. We are driven to shorten the timeline from research to real-world human impact. Our motivation is to put science in service of humanity. Join us in our mission: Healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Science is we all.
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Apr 2023
We optimize how large batteries in the grid buy and sell energy. As the grid increasingly shifts to renewable energy from wind and solar, more and more large battery systems are needed to store that energy for times when there’s huge demand for energy but not enough supply. As a society, we have all the physical battery technology needed to do this, but the software technology that figures out when and how to optimally use the battery is still in its infancy. We’re developing self-optimizing, self-adapting systems that redefine how these large batteries are optimized so the grid can run on more clean energy.
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Mar 2026
Idilio TV will be the next media giant for the Western world—faster, cheaper, and made for the mobile generation. https://www.idilio.tv/
Investor
Jan 2026
World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company. Our mission is to empower and augment humanitys capabilities, transforming how we live and work by advancing spatial and physical intelligence - enabling AI to model the world and reason about objects, places, and interactions across space and time. It is the foundation for both creating worlds and interacting within them: perceiving the world around us, anticipating the consequences of actions, and operating reliably in both virtual and physical worlds. The world models we are building today are the foundation of that future — one that truly empowers people and businesses by augmenting humanitys capabilities for how we work and live, revolutionizing storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and beyond. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. World Labs was founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li alongside Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and Christoph Lassner, leaders in machine learning, generative AI, computer vision, and graphics. Today, our team spans research, engineering, robotics, product, design, and business, creating a tight feedback loop between frontier research and products and solutions that empower our customers and partners. Excited about our vision? Come join us.
mid stage
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
We use multimodal AI and 3D simulation to create interactive, real-time TV. Founded by MIT graduates and backed by Y Combinator, we’re a deep-tech company redefining how stories are experienced.
Investor
Jul 2025
Teach robots new skills through natural language and run reliably in production in minutes.
Investor
Mar 2025
AI agents for Audit.
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