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Amir Rustamzadeh

Partner at Firestreak Ventures

United States

Overview 

Amir Rustamzadeh is a Partner at Firestreak Ventures, specializing in investments in various sectors including Enterprise Infrastructure, AI, and Cybersecurity. With a background in engineering and a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside, Amir has successfully invested in and supported numerous tech startups like Spline, Etched, and Modal Labs, showcasing expertise in venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

Firestreak Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cybersecurity, machine learning, infrastructure, and AI companies.

  • Investor

    2024

Spline offers 3D design and collaboration tools to create and manipulate 3D models and environments.

Raised $25,000,000.00 from Jorn van Dijk, Guillermo Rauch, Istcapital, Firestreak Ventures, Gradient, Y Combinator, Third Point Ventures, Sahin Boydas and Samsung Electronics.

  • Investor

    2024

Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.

Raised $125,360,000.00 from Dolik Ventures, Lightscape Partners, Mei Z., Oceans, Fundomo, Fontinalis Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Amjad Masad, Thomas Dohmke and Peter Thiel.

  • Investor

    2023

Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud.

Raised $23,000,000.00 from Neha Narkhede, Definition, Essence Fund, Elad Gil, Creandum, Lux Capital, Lindsay M. Pettingill, Christopher Ré, Allison Pickens and Quiet Capital.

  • Investor

    2023

A compute framework for turning complex data into vector embeddings.

Raised $10,564,000.00 from MMC Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, Index Ventures, 20SALES, Episode 1 and Theory Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2022

Robust SDKs, Terraform Providers and a toolkit to power REST development at scale.

Raised $25,900,000.00 from Quiet Capital, Google Ventures and FPV Ventures.

  • Investor

    2024

Haize Labs creates artificial intelligence-based development tools that automate massive language model stress testing at scale.

  • Investor

    2024

Codesphere offers a platform that simplifies and streamlines application development, deployment, and scaling.

Raised $27,350,000.00 from LEA Partners, Creandum, 42CAP, Leblon Capital, 468 Capital and Begin Capital.

  • Investor

    2024

Langbase is the composable AI Developer platform helping developers build, deploy, and ship AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).

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