SoftBank Investment Advisers manages the biggest technology funds the world has ever seen. After a decade of writing nine-figure checks into startups, it is now pointing that firepower at one thing: the full stack of artificial intelligence.
Ali Tamaseb is a General Partner at DCVC, the Palo Alto deep-tech venture firm, and the author of Super Founders, a bestselling, data-first dissection of what actually separates billion-dollar startups from the rest. A former hardware founder and biomedical engineer trained at Imperial College London, he hand-collected one of the largest startup datasets ever assembled - 30,000 data points across roughly 300 unicorns - and now backs founders across biotech, climate, fintech, and industrial AI.