# super{set}

> super{set} is a San Francisco startup studio that originates, funds and helps operate a small number of data and AI companies from inception. Founded by repeat software entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, it pairs institutional capital with shared engineering, recruiting, go-to-market and finance support. Its target is not frontier-model research but enterprise applications whose advantage comes from proprietary data, with portfolio companies spanning privacy, developer tools, health, marketing and sales automation.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Tom Chavez (Founding General Partner), Vivek Vaidya (Founding General Partner)
- **Team size:** Approximately 15 studio employees in supplied company data; public company profiles place the core organization in the 11-50 employee range. Portfolio-company headcount is separate.
- **Products:** Ideation and market validation, Company co-founding, Venture funding, Shared operating platform, Signal
- **Notable:** Closed a $65 million first fund at its public launch in 2019., Reported 16 founded, funded and scaled data and AI startups by March 2024., Reached $176 million in committed capital across active funds after closing Fund II.

## Products & services

- **Ideation and market validation** — Defines a business problem, sizes the market, interviews prospective users and develops a solution memo before committing to a company.
- **Company co-founding** — Pairs studio partners with product-oriented co-founders and provides early engineering, product design and leadership support.
- **Venture funding** — Supplies inception and follow-on capital from dedicated funds to companies the studio helps originate.
- **Shared operating platform** — Provides recruiting, finance, legal, go-to-market, fundraising and management playbooks across the portfolio's shared Hive network.
- **Signal** — A pathway for entrepreneurs and technical leaders to present an idea or domain insight for potential company creation with the studio.
- **Majordomo** — An open-source software initiative linked from super{set}'s site; detailed commercial terms are not publicly stated.

## Achievements

- Closed a $65 million first fund at its public launch in 2019.
- Reported 16 founded, funded and scaled data and AI startups by March 2024.
- Reached $176 million in committed capital across active funds after closing Fund II.
- Cofounded Habu, acquired by LiveRamp for approximately $200 million in January 2024.
- Cofounded Spectrum Labs, acquired by ActiveFence in 2023.
- Moved to a new global headquarters at 140 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco in 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published its task-absorbing software thesis, arguing that agentic products should complete work rather than generate more alerts and administration.
- **2026-05** — Published the Daylight Principle for agentic AI, highlighting domain context and proprietary feedback loops in portfolio companies Kana.ai, Zig.ai and Checksum.ai.
- **2026-05** — Hosted an ODSC meetup in San Francisco focused on building companies with a durable data advantage.
- **2026-03** — Convened super{summit} discussions on coordinating go-to-market teams in AI-native startups.
- **2026-02** — Vivek Vaidya outlined the studio's AI-native enterprise playbook, including governance and privacy by design, in a published interview.
- **2024-06** — Announced its move into a new global headquarters at 140 New Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco.
- **2024-03** — Closed a $90 million second fund, bringing stated committed capital in active funds to $176 million.

## Links

- Website: https://www.superset.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/superset-studio/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/supersetstudio
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-B7bSgmcZf3xM1EU7MJMOg

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Last updated: 2026-08-17