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Yann LeCun
Angel · New York City, United States
Direct investment
12 Companies backed directly
News
Yann LeCun: Silicon Valley is 'completely hypnotized by LLMs' while Asia races ahead on world models
Oct 27, 2026
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Yann LeCun calls Dario Amodei 'deluded' and AI doom 'the worst marketing campaign you can imagine'
Oct 5, 2026
Yann LeCun’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Yann LeCun still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has a disclosed stake for Yann LeCun in only 1 company, too few to estimate what the portfolio is worth, so stake sizes aren’t shown.
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Perplexity
$20.0B
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Wayve
$8.6B
Unicorns and thoroughbreds Yann LeCun has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Where Yann LeCun’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 11 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA8
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France3
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UK1
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Enterprise Software7
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Real Estate2
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Robotics2
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Health1
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Music1
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Transportation1
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Seed6
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Series A5
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Early Growth5
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Breakout Stage4
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Late Growth3
Inside Yann LeCun’s portfolio.
The 12 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 11 tracked.
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UMWhere Yann LeCun’s portfolio founders come from.
30 founders across the 12 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States20
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France7
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United Kingdom2
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Germany1
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Sorbonne University4
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Carnegie Mellon University3
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
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New York University2
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University of California, Berkeley2
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University of Cambridge2
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University2
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Auckland University of Technology1
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Brown University1
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Cornell University1
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Alphabet | Google6
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Meta4
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Google DeepMind2
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Institut De Recherche Et De Coordination Acoustique Musique - Ircam2
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
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Quora2
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Amazon Rekognition1
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Apple1
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Assurland.com1
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Atlassian1
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
