Andrei Kozyrev
Partner at Abstract Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.