Juniper

Advanced AI is radically transforming our world. Juniper supports founders making AI secure and beneficial for humanity.

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

We love working with founders.

Some of our investments:

  • Goodfire: AI interpretability research company building safe and powerful AI systems. (pre-seed + series B & board).

  • Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company: certifies and insures AI agents. (pre-seed)

  • Lucid Computing: from location verification to operational integrity. (pre-seed)

  • Apollo Research: mitigating high-risk failure modes, particularly deceptive alignment. (pre-seed)

  • Axiom Math: The starting point for reasoning. (series A)

  • Alien: proving humanity in the age of AI. (pre-seed)

  • Kradle: evaluating frontier models in simulations. (pre-seed)

  • Workshop Labs: billions of private models, one for each person. [acquired by Thinking Machines Lab]. (pre-seed)

  • Haize Labs: the trust, safety, and reliability layer underpinning AI models. (pre-seed)

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

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

  • Musubi Labs: intelligent AI-driven Trust & Safety automation. (pre-seed)

  • FutureSearch: building AI to understand AI, in a virtuous loop. (pre-seed)

  • Softmax: discovering the principles of organic alignment for scale. (seed)

  • stealth: AI infra quality & ROI via evals, experiments, and observability. (pre-seed)

Some of our previous angel investments: Anthropic, Hugging Face, Lambda, Cohere, etc.

Juniper is run by exited founders. We help founders resolve bottlenecks like fundraising, hiring, growth, product, governance, culture, and 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

  • Juniper Ventures: (pre)seed

  • Juniper Growth: series abc

  • Juniper Foundation: c3c4pac

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