Index Ventures
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Index Ventures is an AI-focused investor that has recently backed multiple startups spanning robotics, AI assistants, and AI evaluation. Its recent activity includes leading or co-leading funding rounds for Instinct’s $250M Series B and Enigma’s $71M seed to develop foundation models and human-robot interfaces, as well as leading DesignArena’s $7.9M seed for AI model evaluation via human feedback. Index Ventures also participated in broader venture funding and fund expansion, including raising $2B across three funds explicitly to invest in AI startups from seed through public markets.
Updated 18 September 2026
Signals
7 stories (+75%)
Media momentum
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5 sources
Source diversity
As of 24 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
7 investments
Investment activity
As of 24 Sep 2026 · Source-backed invests-in relationships tracked from this investor.
Sep 2025 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 24 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management
updated 5 Aug 2026-
Susana Rojas
Partner
- Nina Achadjian Partner
- Hannah Seal Partner
- Georgia Stevenson Principal
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Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas
Venture Partner
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Julia Andre
Principal
- Jan Hammer Partner
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Sofia Dolfe
Principal
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Martin Mignot
Partner
- Danny Rimer Partner
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Mike Volpi
Partner
- Ana Andreescu Marketing and Communications
+ 28 more tracked
Portfolio
Instinct Wonderful Enigma DesignArena Wonderful AI BV Thatch Emulate
Latest developments
Q3 2026
Ando invests in Index Ventures Funding
Index Ventures invests in Emulate Funding
Index Ventures invests in Thatch Funding
Wonderful raises $550 million in a Series C funding round at a $5 billion valuation Funding
Index Ventures invests in Wonderful AI BV Funding
Index Ventures invests in Wonderful Funding
Instinct, an AI assistant startup, raised a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation Funding
Index Ventures invests in DesignArena Funding
European Commission launches €10 billion AI gigafactory funding initiative to build continental AI infrastructure Policy change
Index Ventures invests in Enigma Funding
- Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
- DeepMind’s Genie creators launch Emulate, seeking $700M to build world models for robotics and simulation: Report
- Unicorn alert: Thatch raises $108M from General Catalyst and Index Ventures at $1B valuation
- Wonderful raises $550M at $5B valuation for its AI automation platform
- Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
- Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct reportedly raising $250M
- Noah Shinn’s Instinct goes from $100M to $2.5B in weeks: 23-year-old’s AI assistant just raised $250M Series B
- DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
- Index Ventures doubles down on AI with fresh $2bn fundraise
- Enigma raises $71M to develop foundation models for robots
- Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
Q3 2025
Relationships
Investment & ownership
- Invests in Instinct · 2 sources
- Invests in DesignArena · 1 source
- Invests in Enigma · 1 source
- Invests in Emulate · 1 source
- Invests in Wonderful AI BV · 1 source
- Invests in Wonderful · 1 source
- Invests in Thatch · 1 source
- Instinct invests in this investor · 1 source
- Ando invests in this investor · 1 source