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[Array VC] 15 Themes We’re Most Excited to Back

Reach out to deals@array.vc if you are building in these areas!

Array Ventures invests $250k-$3m checks at formation. If you are starting a company in AI Infrastructure, making any industry such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, etc. better. Email us at deals@array.vc.

At Array Ventures, we launched our AI Labs to actively build, experiment, and learn alongside the founders we back. In just six months, we’ve generated over 500,000 lines of code developing internal tools and running hands-on experiments. The lab allows us to rapidly test new ideas, evaluate emerging products, and deeply understand the realities of building with AI.

When companies pitch to us, we don’t just review decks, we use the products. If a company is pre-product, we can often relate directly to the underlying challenges through our own building experience. In many cases, we attempt to recreate parts of a product ourselves to understand the technical complexity, tradeoffs, and whether alternative approaches or workarounds exist.

There are many compelling areas to invest in AI, but our focus is shaped by the challenges we encounter firsthand in the lab, as well as the needs our portfolio companies consistently raise. These experiences guide where we believe the AI stack still needs meaningful improvement.

Below are the areas we are most excited to invest in at Array Ventures today. If you’re building in or adjacent to any of these spaces, we’d love to connect. We are actively investing and can review pitches within 48 hours.

  1. Self-driving operators: “AI suggests” to “AI does”

  2. AI Governance Infrastructure: Control Layer Systems

  3. AI Economics Infrastructure: Do more with less

  4. Edge Intelligence: Inference, Optimization, Efficiency

  5. Embodied World Models: Physical AI

  6. Symbolic AI: Deterministic Reasoning

  7. Knowledge-infused AI: Context Management

  8. Energy Infrastructure: Hardware Bottleneck

  9. Life Operators: Personal companion

  10. Agent Economy: Transaction and commerce

  11. Verifiable AI: On-Chain Proofs

  12. Agent Learning Systems: RL and Training Loops

  13. Vertical AI: Make any industry efficient

  14. Content Authenticity: AI Manipulation

  15. Boring Email Company: Just make my Inbox better :)

Thanks

Array Ventures Team

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