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Andrei Kozyrev

Partner at Abstract Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Andrei Kozyrev is currently a Partner at Abstract Ventures in San Francisco, specializing in investing in FinTech and AI startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. With a background in machine learning engineering at Spotify and experience as Chief of Staff at Scale AI, he brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic leadership to his role as a venture capitalist.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Work closely with Factory AI, Unify GTM, Anon, Symbolica, and several others in stealth.

Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, and series A startup companies.

  • EIR

    2023 - 2023

    Explored ideas for my own company with one of the best incubation teams in the world.

Thrive Capital is an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies.

Raised $120,000,000.00 from Petershill Partners.

  • Chief of Staff, Enterprise AI

    2021 - 2023

    Chief of Staff to Michael Kratsios, Scale's Managing Director and 4th CTO of the United States. Built the Enterprise AI team from 0 to 1. Learned what hypergrowth means.

Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.

Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2021 - 2021

    Algorithmic Radio personalization.

  • Machine Learning Research

    2019 - 2020

    Counterfactual learning-to-rank under Prof. Thorsten Joachims.

  • Political Science Research

    2017 - 2017

    Politics of Memory in post-Soviet states under Prof. George Soroka.

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