Factorial Funds

Ex-Cruise founder Sol Bier's concentrated AI investor; $200M Fund II (2025) anchored by Hyundai and Kia.

VC Multi-stage 📍 Menlo Park, CA Founded 2021

AUM

Not Disclosed

Strategic / Balance-Sheet

PRIVATE

Factorial Funds was founded in 2021 by Sol Bier, an early Cruise Automation team member, and makes concentrated technology investments at early and growth stage across the AI value chain, cloud and data infrastructure, robotics and rapidly scaling software. Fund I backed Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI, Mistral, Ayar Labs, SpaceX and The Bot Company; in May 2025 the firm launched its $200M second institutional fund with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia as anchor investors.

Firm Profile

Firm Type

Subtype

Multi-stage

Founded

2021

Menlo Park, CA

Country

USA

Active Fund

Factorial Funds II ($200M) · 2025

Notable Partners

Sol BierZiyaad KhayratteeRory CarmichaelPeter Nelson

Portfolio Companies (7)

xAIanthropic perplexity mistral ayar labsSpaceXthe bot company

Investment Focus

Stages

Series A · Series B · Series C · Growth

Sectors

AI · Infrastructure · Robotics · Enterprise

VCMulti-stageSJ Top 100

Investor data reflects publicly disclosed AUM, fund sizes, and portfolio holdings as of recent date. Refreshed periodically.