Person profile
Richard Socher
A Stanford PhD, he was Salesforce's Chief Scientist after it acquired his first AI company. An AI pioneer, he founded two companies with one exit and also launched an AI venture fund. Now he is building an AI search engine and investing in AI-powered companies through his fund.
- Founded
- Recursive Superintelligence, AIX Ventures, You.com +1 more
- Backed
- Hugging Face, Windsurf, Weights & Biases +9 more
- Education
- Stanford University
Investments 12
Companies backed, as recorded by Dealroom. Highest company valuations first.
Hugging Face
$11.9B valuation (2026)Decacorn
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Windsurf
$2.9B valuation (2025)Unicorn
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Weights & Biases
$1B valuation (2025)Unicorn
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Ellipsis Health
$270M valuation (2025)
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Sparxity
$217.8M valuation (2026)
Zebra Medical Vision
$200M valuation (2021)
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Workera
$141M valuation (2023)
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Cosmos Innovation
$100.8M valuation (2023)
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Price.com
$72M valuation (2025)
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Replika
$39M valuation (2017)
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Viva Translate
$24M valuation (2022)
Autobound
$24M valuation (2023)
Companies founded
Recursive Superintelligence
$4.7B valuation (2026)Unicorn
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AIX Ventures
You.com
$1.5B valuation (2025)Unicorn
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MetaMind
$48M valuation (2014)
Currently
Active roles, board seats and partnerships.
Work history
Past roles by Dealroom records.
Salesforce
$176B valuation (2026)Centacorn
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Stanford University
Education
Stanford University
Talks 1
Interviews and talks Dealroom has written up, with the key moments.
