Juniper Ventures

Advanced AI is radically transforming our world. Juniper invests in startups that help make AI secure and beneficial for humanity.

We’re into assurance infra like energy, hardware, physical networking (hard layer), compute, security, audits (cloud layer), data, evals, interpretability (model layer), inference, guardrails, observability (runtime layer), authentication, agents, integrations (distribution layer), compliance, insurance, policy (governance layer).

We love working with exceptional founders at the earliest stages.

Some of our (pre)seed investments:

• Goodfire: interpretability tooling for safe and reliable generative AI models.

• Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company: certifies and insures AI agents.

• Lucid Computing: from location verification to operational integrity.

• Workshop Labs: billions of private models, one for each person.

• Haize Labs: the trust, safety, and reliability layer underpinning AI models.

• Andon Labs: autonomous organizations bridging AI control research with real-world testing.

• Gray Swan: safety and security in the AI era.

• Musubi Labs: intelligent AI-driven Trust & Safety automation.

• FutureSearch: building AI to understand AI, in a virtuous loop.

• Softmax: scaling alignment.

• Stealth: simulated environments for agents

• Stealth: mitigating high-risk failure modes

• Stealth: identity and trust in cyberspace

Juniper is run by exited founders. We help founders resolve bottlenecks like fundraising, hiring, go-to-market, product, growth, operating, governance, relationships, culture, & well-being.

We’re backed by people like Reid Hoffman, Eric Ries, Geoff Ralston, Jan Leike, and Woj Zaremba.

We write and publish the AI Assurance Technology Report: aiat.report

Get in touch: team@juniperventures.xyz (Nick Fitz, Griff Bohm, & friends)