About Collective Investments

What is Collective Investments?

Collective Investments is a founder-investor matchmaking program built within the GenAI Collective community — designed to help early-stage AI startups connect with the right capital, at the right moment.

Our mission: support mission-aligned founders in turning bold ideas into real-world impact. We do this by surfacing the best early-stage startups in our ecosystem, helping them refine their pitch, and putting them in front of investors who share their vision.

This is not just another pitch night—it’s a curated experience built on trust, community, and shared goals. It’s a curated experience rooted in trust, rigor, and community. For founders, it’s a chance to accelerate product launches and go-to-market strategy. For investors, it’s early access to startups that have already been shaped by the largest AI nonprofit community in the United States.

Why This—Why Now

Over the past year, GenAI Collective has hosted dozens of demo nights, hackathons, and community events that organically brought together thousands of builders, operators, and investors. Time and again, we’ve seen magic happen—funding connections made in a Slack thread, a product idea sparked at a hackathon, a founder meeting their lead investor on stage at demo night.

Collective Investments is our way of doubling down on what’s already working—and doing it with more intention.

By creating structure around that organic energy, we can help more founders get their products launched, faster. We can make sure the right investors see the right opportunities. And most importantly, we can ensure that the startups shaping the future of AI are values-aligned, community-supported, and positioned to make a meaningful impact on the world.

Meet The Team

Collective Investments is led by a cross-functional team of community builders, investors, operators, and educators who are deeply embedded in the GenAI ecosystem.

  • Supriya Gupta

  • Yehuda Atzmon

  • Pierce Kelaita

  • Mihir Somaiya

  • Chappy Asel

  • Jen Cheng