Sonja Brand

Investor/Founder/CEO

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
Angel investor🌍 United StatesInvested this year
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Jan 2026
Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence. We’re currently in stealth and working with select partners as we prepare for public launch. If you’re excited about hard problems, first-principles thinking, and building category-defining systems, we’d love to hear from you.
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Feb 2024
Pioneer in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, privacy, and AI
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May 2023
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
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Jan 2023
Machina Labs unlocks manufacturing with AI & Robotics. Machinas Robotic Craftsman is introducing unseen flexibility and agility to the centuries-old manufacturing industry, enabling rapid iteration and innovation to design, engineering, and production. Machina helps leading companies quickly and affordably turn great ideas into reality.
mid stageManufacturing
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2022
Fathom Radiant is building computer hardware to train neural networks at the human brain-scale and beyond by building a better network. Help us construct the future of machine intelligence. Our founding team has previously founded startups with more than $500 million in exits. We are well-funded from investors including Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.
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2017
Emerald Cloud Lab® (ECL®) provides researchers from various disciplines with access to state-of-the-art scientific labs from anywhere on earth, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. With ECL researchers utilize a single software interface to securely design, run, and analyze experiments, allowing researchers to spend more time designing protocols and analyzing data, and less time on mundane time-intensive activities in the lab. With ECL every researcher utilizing the platform becomes more productive, and more efficient while reducing operational costs and the impact on the environment.
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2026
Investor
Jan 2026
Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence. We’re currently in stealth and working with select partners as we prepare for public launch. If you’re excited about hard problems, first-principles thinking, and building category-defining systems, we’d love to hear from you.
2024
Investor
Feb 2024
Pioneer in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, privacy, and AI
2023
Investor
May 2023
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
Investor
Jan 2023
Machina Labs unlocks manufacturing with AI & Robotics. Machinas Robotic Craftsman is introducing unseen flexibility and agility to the centuries-old manufacturing industry, enabling rapid iteration and innovation to design, engineering, and production. Machina helps leading companies quickly and affordably turn great ideas into reality.
mid stageManufacturing
2022
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2022
Fathom Radiant is building computer hardware to train neural networks at the human brain-scale and beyond by building a better network. Help us construct the future of machine intelligence. Our founding team has previously founded startups with more than $500 million in exits. We are well-funded from investors including Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.
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