What Amino Capital does

Amino Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Larry Li that manages over $1 billion in capital across multiple funds, investing from seed to growth stages in sectors spanning Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, AI, and Web3. Its portfolio includes approximately 20 unicorns and 35-plus successful exits, anchored by early-seed investments in companies such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail, Weee!, and Replit. The firm serves two principal customer sets: early-stage entrepreneurs receiving capital, mentorship, talent introductions, and investor-network access, and limited partners who receive real-time portfolio transparency through the firm's proprietary systems.

The firm's core technological differentiator is the internally developed ARM (Amino Resource Management) and LP Expert System (LPM), built by its full-time engineering team to deliver AI-augmented due diligence, daily-recalibrated startup scoring across more than 10,000 companies, automated SWOT analysis, and instant LP actionability for follow-on funding, customer introductions, and strategic collaborations. This technology stack is operated alongside a 60,000-talent pool, 25,000 LinkedIn connections, and an estimated 1,000 investor introductions per year to portfolio companies, providing measurable value-add beyond capital deployment.

Amino Capital generates revenue through standard venture fund mechanics — management fees on committed and deployed capital plus carried interest on exits — and operates with a partnership of Managing Partners Larry Li, Huican Zhu, and Sue Xu, supported by Partners Maximilian Ibel and Jack Smith, a Chief AI Officer, and a Director of Operations. Geographic reach spans the US, UK, Germany, China, India, and the Middle East, with the firm conducting both direct equity investments and co-investments alongside syndicates such as YZi Labs, Baidu Ventures, Y Combinator, Seven Seven Six, Slow Ventures, and Relentless.

Name

Amino Capital

Legal name

Amino Capital

Website

https://aminocapital.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Amino Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that manages over $1 billion across seed-to-growth funds, investing in AI, SaaS, Consumer, Frontier Tech, and Web3 startups while operating a proprietary AI-powered ARM platform for portfolio monitoring and LP transparency.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (6211)

akta.pro primary industry

Institutional Capital Introduction (LP/Family Office/Endowment Matching) (FSAEALAI)

Keywords

• Venture capital
• Early-stage investments
• Seed funding
• AI startup investing
• Portfolio management

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Venture Capital Fund Management: Amino Capital generates returns through management fees and carried interest from its venture capital funds. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets across multiple funds, investing in seed to growth stage companies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Amino Capital is a venture capital firm that invests capital from seed to growth stages in early-stage technology companies, targeting sectors including Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, AI, and Web3 with an investment theme of data moat and network effect. The firm provides portfolio companies with capital, strategic guidance, talent introductions, and investor network access through direct equity investments. It manages over $1 billion across multiple funds and operates proprietary AI-powered platforms (ARM and LPM) for portfolio monitoring and LP transparency.

Product overview

Amino Capital is a venture capital firm offering investment management services. Its core proprietary product is the AI-powered ARM (Amino Resource Management) System combined with the LP Expert System (LPM). These internal platforms provide real-time transparency for LPs, automated due diligence, and AI-augmented startup tracking and scoring. The R2D2 platform is also referenced as part of the firm's investment ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ARM (Amino Resource Management) System: Proprietary AI-powered transparency and LP reporting system developed by Amino Capital's internal engineering team, enabling real-time visibility into portfolio companies and automated due diligence
• LP Expert System (LPM)

Products and services

• Venture Capital Fund Management (Seed to Growth) Core venture capital offering providing direct equity investments from seed through growth stages for early-stage technology companies with data moat and network effect characteristics, accompanied by strategic guidance, talent introductions, and investor network access.
• ARM (Amino Resource Management) System Proprietary AI-powered platform providing real-time LP visibility into portfolio companies, automated AI-augmented due diligence, and dynamic startup scoring recalibrated daily; tracks over 10,000 startups and generates dynamic SWOT analyses.
• LP Expert System (LPM) AI transparency system for limited partners enabling instant actionability for follow-on funding, customer introductions, and strategic collaborations within contractual disclosure boundaries.
• R2D2 Investment Platform Investment platform referenced in the firm's website navigation; purpose and functionality not detailed in available sources.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35+ successful exits achieved by portfolio companies
• +3 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Web SummitminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 November 2025Larry Li, Founder and Managing Partner at Amino Capital, spoke at Web Summit Qatar, discussing agentic AI transformation in startup formation and VC investment strategies.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z): Large multi-stage venture firm with a particularly strong AI and Web3/crypto thesis and a major founder-LP value-add platform. Compares directly to Amino on AI/Web3 thematic focus, though a16z is many multiples larger in AUM and team size.
• Sequoia Capital: Premier early-stage tech VC and lead investor in multiple Amino portfolio companies (e.g., Chime, Rippling, Webflow). Comparable in early-stage tech focus, though Sequoia operates at significantly greater scale and broader sector mandate.
• Accel: Early-stage tech VC with global footprint and historical strength in consumer and SaaS investing. Directly comparable on early-stage consumer/SaaS/AI investing and on company-building value-add, though at substantially larger AUM.
• Lightspeed Venture Partners: Multi-stage VC investing across consumer, enterprise, and frontier tech including AI. Comparable on multi-stage AI/consumer/SaaS mandate and global investing footprint, with substantially larger fund sizes.
• Founders Fund: Early-stage VC focused on transformative technologies with deep-tech and frontier-tech orientation. Comparable on the 'frontier tech' portion of Amino's mandate and on operator-founder brand positioning.
• Radical Ventures: AI-native venture firm investing in early-stage AI and data companies. Most directly comparable peer on the AI-thematic positioning of Amino Capital, with comparable fund size profile.
• Greylock Partners: Early-stage enterprise and consumer tech VC with strong AI/ML investment activity. Comparable on early-stage enterprise AI focus and on long-tenured founder-network positioning.
• Bessemer Venture Partners: Multi-stage VC with deep SaaS/cloud investment franchise and strong international presence. Comparable on SaaS/PLG focus and global investing footprint.

Emerging players

• AI Fund: AI-focused venture studio and seed fund founded by Andrew Ng. Comparable on AI-focused seed investing and on operator-founder branding, though operates more as a venture studio model than a traditional fund.
• Zetta Venture Partners: Early-stage VC focused on AI-first companies, with comparable fund size profile to Amino. Directly comparable on AI-native investment thesis, though narrower in sector mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/amino_capital
• Facebookfacebook.com/aminocapitalamino
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aminocapital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments205 records

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