Funding the Infrastructure Behind AI
Albatross AI Capital is a $95M seed-stage fund backing the engineers and founders building tomorrow's AI stack.
Backing Builders at the Earliest Stage
We lead seed rounds for teams building AI developer tools, infrastructure platforms, and foundational models with real staying power.
Michael Torres, CEO
Seed-stage conviction in AI infrastructure since 2022
Investing in the AI Infrastructure Layer
Albatross AI Capital focuses exclusively on the infrastructure and tooling that makes AI development faster, cheaper, and more reliable. We invest at the seed stage -- when conviction is most valuable and ownership opportunity is greatest.
Founded in Austin in 2022, our $95M Seed Round positions us to lead investments across compute infrastructure, MLOps, developer tooling, and AI-native APIs.
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Our PortfolioSeed-Stage Only
First check. Lead investor. Day-one partner.
Where We Invest
We back teams operating at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and developer experience — sectors where technical moats translate directly to durable business value.
Compute That Scales With AI Demand
The next generation of AI applications will be compute-hungry. We back the teams building the orchestration layers, hardware abstractions, and scheduling systems that make large-scale AI training and inference economically viable.
- GPU cluster management and scheduling
- Distributed inference and serving platforms
- Cost-optimization layers for AI workloads
Tools That Ship AI Faster
Every engineering team building AI-native products needs better tooling. We back companies creating the SDKs, testing harnesses, and developer APIs that compress the time from prototype to production.
- Prompt management and versioning systems
- AI application testing and evaluation
- LLM-native API and integration layers
Bringing Engineering Rigor to ML
Production ML requires the same reliability as production software. We invest in the platforms that help data scientists and ML engineers collaborate, version models, and maintain data quality at scale.
- Feature engineering and store platforms
- Model monitoring and drift detection
- End-to-end ML pipeline orchestration
Companies We Back
From equity management platforms to container ecosystems, our portfolio companies are redefining how software and data infrastructure is built.
Building AI Infrastructure?
If you are building foundational AI infrastructure or developer tools and are raising a seed round, we want to hear from you.
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