Startup Fundraising · 2026-08-06 · 9 min
Yann LeCun’s 224 Ventures launches with more than $100 million as AI companies QuantHealth, HappyRobot and PaXini raise major rounds. The deals show capital concentrating around AI platforms, agents and real-world deployment. In this episode Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner - The Next Web Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner Credit: Alain Herzog #### TL;DR LeCun and Oriol Vinyals join 224 Ventures, a new AI fund with $100M+ in assets. Targets early stage AI with $1M-$5M checks. University of Illinois is anchor investor. LPs are mostly AI insiders. Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch.
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