Top Harvest Capital
Our Venture Fund invests worldwide in early stage startups leveraging machine learning / AI in software & healthcare
AI software
Voxel 51 - Better AI model development for video/ image; with automated organizing, labeling and debugging of data at scale (co-led series A)
Vectara - API-focused search engine leveraging deep neural nets by distinguished ex-Google team (co-led seed)
Kinetix - AI-assisted video style transfer and animation; applications to gaming (led seed)
Rembrand - Generative AI for targeted product placement in short videos for superior monetization and user experience (seed)
Mantium AI - Enterprise-ready large language models (co-led seed)
MindMesh - Knowledge management & productivity (led first round)
TinyStacks - Intelligent automation of cloud DevOps (led first round)
Stealth - ML-powered professional writing assistant (led first round)
Stealth - Integrate generative AI / transformer models across text, document, image, video, audio for Multi-modal Search (led first round)
AI Healthcare / BIo
Hedera Dx - ML-enabled liquid biopsy for faster, safer tumor profiling & therapy selection for cancer patients (led seed)
Asa Ren - Bringing genomics at scale to SE Asia; building the definitive clinico-genomic dataset (co-led seed)
Not announced - Improved IVF / fertility success rates with AI-powered computer vision & single cell robotics (series A)
Not announced - Going beyond correlation to causation with functional genomics at scale ; focused on solid tumors in 3D (co-led seed)
Not announced - Cut cost and duration of clinical trials, and improve patient access, matching, recruitment & retention (series A)
Team:
Adam Ghobarah, Founder
Prior to founding Top Harvest Capital in 2021, Adam was a general partner at Google Ventures (GV), where he focused on machine learning (ML) / AI (2012-2020) in software and in health care. Prior to joining GV, he was a director at Google (2006-2012). He built and led a world-class machine learning team that developed models for predicting advertiser behavior and systems for automating ML model training. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, focused on applying statistical machine learning to public health.
Choongsoon Bae, General Partner
Choongsoon has a decade of technical and executive experience in machine learning and statistics with exposure to startups. Prior to joining Top Harvest, Choongsoon was a partner at GV (Google Ventures) 2013-2022; focused on machine learning, AI and data science. Prior to joining GV, Choongsoon worked for 4 years at Google (2009-2013), focused on machine learning in advertising products. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley (2008) in statistical machine learning.