Mythos Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Vishal Maini, a former AGI Deployment Strategy Lead at DeepMind. The firm raised a $14 million inaugural fund to invest in transformative AI companies with a prosocial focus, writing checks of $100kâ$2M into pre-seed and seed-stage startups. Their investment thesis centers on three pillars: backing unstoppable founders, supporting AGI-proof companies with defensible strategies, and prioritizing technologies with positive societal externalities and safety by design.
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Mythos Ventures believes that directing capital toward prosocial, safety-minded AI startups accelerates the development of technologies that are beneficial by design. By backing founders building AGI-resilient companies with positive externalities, they aim to shift the commercial AI ecosystem toward safer and more beneficial outcomes, reducing systemic risk as AI systems become more capable.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC