Fellows Fund

Team

The
Partners

A partnership of AI researchers, founders, and enterprise executives with decades of collective experience building and scaling frontier AI.

Alex Ren

Alex Ren

Founding Partner

JC Mao

JC Mao

General Partner

Lucas Sheiner

Lucas Sheiner

General Partner

Charles Elkan

Charles Elkan

Venture Partner

Nick Chong

Nick Chong

Venture Partner

THE FELLOWS COMMUNITY

37 practitioners across AI research, enterprise, and company building.

WHERE AI LEADERS CONVENE

Fellows Forum convenes ~500 invite-only leaders across the AI stack — founders, executives, operators, and frontier researchers — to build relationships that translate into sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support.

AI founders building breakout companies

Executives scaling adoption and distribution

Enterprise operators deploying AI in production

Frontier researchers advancing model and systems capability

Fellows Forum — AI Summit panel discussion

Fellows Forum 2025

Palo Alto

Attendees from 50+ companies including

Anthropic
Gamma
Glean
OpenAI
Dyna
LangChain
Abridge
Motion
Replit
Atlassian
Writer
Physical Intelligence
Cursor
Surge AI
Nebius

Let's build together.

Building at the frontier of AI? We'd love to hear from you. Reach out to any of our partners directly.

Alex Ren

Founding Partner

alex@fellows.fund

JC Mao

General Partner

jc@fellows.fund

Lucas Sheiner

General Partner

lucas@fellows.fund