AI-powered companies
Companies using AI to create fundamentally better products, services, operations, and business models.
We look for businesses in which AI is central to the company’s advantage—not another feature added to an existing product.
Ventures
Backing the companies building the AI-powered economy.
Ryla Ventures selectively invests through its syndicate in exceptional founders building companies powered by AI—and the technologies enabling established businesses to become AI-powered.
The thesis
A new economy is taking shape.
AI will not simply change what companies sell. It will change how companies operate, compete, and create value.
The greatest advantage will go to companies that rethink how work gets done, decisions are made, products are built, customers are served, and growth is created.
Ryla backs the founders building that future.
Where we invest
AI enablers
The platforms, infrastructure, and tools helping established companies become AI-powered.
These companies make it possible for organizations to discover valuable opportunities, transform important workflows, deploy reliable AI systems, govern AI decisions and actions, and turn experimentation into measurable business outcomes.
What earns our attention
Six things we look for.
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A consequential problem
A problem that matters deeply to customers and carries meaningful economic, operational, or human consequences.
02
A newly possible solution
A product, service, or business model made possible—or fundamentally improved—by recent advances in AI.
03
A structural advantage
An advantage that becomes stronger through proprietary workflows, differentiated data, distribution, domain expertise, or learning loops.
04
A credible path to adoption
A clear understanding of the buyer, the user, the existing workflow, and what must change for adoption to happen.
05
An exceptional team
Founders with deep insight, intellectual honesty, speed, resilience, and a distinctive reason to win.
06
Trust built into the product
In consequential environments, reliability, security, governance, and human accountability are not secondary considerations. They are part of the product.
More than capital
Ryla brings the perspective of a builder, executive, and investor.
When useful, we help founders sharpen product strategy, navigate enterprise adoption, develop partnerships, make relevant introductions, and turn promising technology into lasting business value.
Led by Kamiar Kordari, Ph.D.
Kamiar is an AI product and innovation executive, builder, and technology investor.
1M+People using AI products he built and grew, as part of the team behind two successful acquisitions
22Granted patents worldwide
70+Startups invested in, including Anthropic, 6 unicorns, and 2 IPOs
Investors
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Join Ryla’s investor network to learn about selected opportunities aligned with our investment thesis.
Help build the AI-powered economy.
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The information on this page is provided for general informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to purchase securities. Any investment opportunity will be made available only through its applicable offering materials and subject to eligibility requirements.