Radical Ventures

Aaron is a partner at Radical Ventures, where he leads the firm's London and European investment activities and operations. He previously led strategy and operations at DeepMind and worked at McKinsey & Company.

David is a partner at Radical Ventures, where he leads the investment team and oversees strategic initiatives and operations. He supports portfolio companies with go-to-market and corporate development and leads the Compute practice group.

Dominic is a partner at Radical Ventures, where he advises portfolio companies on commercialization and go-to-market strategy. He chairs Rio Tinto and LeapFrog Investments and recently completed his role as Canada's ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2010 for contributions to Canada's banking and financial industry and voluntary and philanthropic endeavours. He is a director of Thomson Reuters and chair of the Vector Institute.

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Prime Intellect acquires Moondream, a Seattle-founded startup that makes small, open-source image-understanding models. Its co-founders Jay Allen and Vik Korrapati join Prime Intellect to lead inference work and expand its efforts in vision and computer-using AI agents. Moondream’s Photon inference engine compiles each model into a GPU megakernel to reduce idle time between tasks. Prime Intellect keeps the Moondream name for efficient models and offers its latest model, Moondream 3.1, through its inference service.

Oct 2026 · GeekWireNews article

Amazon is reportedly discussing a possible acquisition of AI startup Decart in a deal valued at up to $7 billion. Decart’s DOS software optimizes neural networks for specific processors, reducing a process that once took months to a few weeks and helping companies shift workloads when chip needs or availability change. The startup also develops Lucy and Oasis world models; it raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation in May, and Anthropic reportedly withdrew from separate acquisition talks after due diligence.

Oct 2026 · SiliconANGLENews article

Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could value the company at about $7 billion. Decart, a San Francisco company, makes software that helps developers switch between different AI chips; Anthropic decided against acquiring it for about $6 billion in September.

Oct 2026 · Wall Street JournalNews article

AI neolabs have raised $24bn over the past two quarters, nearly five times what OpenAI and Anthropic raised before ChatGPT. Many lack products, markets or revenue; the article cautions that fundraising figures can obscure details and says few investors would now set out to build another Walmart, Uber or Amazon.

Sep 2026 · Financial TimesNews article