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Obvious tomorrow.
Strange Ventures is a first-check fund backing inventor-founders at the frontier of computing.
We invest across the computing stack, from interfaces to infrastructure.
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Archetype · MagicPath · VideoDB · Multiply · Ursa stealth · Gather stealth · BLNG
Events
Latest Writing
The Sunday Brief On why the west is losing its grip on open source. Plus Cerebras's $40B IPO, Samsung's 48x profit jump, three neo-labs raising $1.65B on the post-LLM thesis, and Meta's humanoid robotics play.
The Stranded Asset How the AI inference boom might leave a generation of data centers behind.
The Brief The next generation will either work with agents, or work for agents. Plus: Google commits $40B to Anthropic, SpaceX options Cursor for $60B, and Chinese research dominated ICLR.
The Whale in the Room Why the Vercel breach was an expected outcome of the current architecture, and where we could go next.
The Strange Brief NVIDIA's quantum software play, OpenAI goes bio, Anthropic releases Opus 4.7 to mixed reviews, and China's 2D semiconductor breakthrough.
Press
Team
Tara Tan
Founder & Managing Partner
Computational designer turned investor. Former IDEO, Harvard, Formlabs.
Strange Research Fellows — Q1 2026
Joy Yang Robotics
Mason Rodriguez Rand Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Rahul Narula Data Centers
Alumni
Kimi Wenzel Agentic Experiences
Hessan Sedaghat Humanoid Robots
Steven Song, Dr. Cybersecurity & Defense
Will Epperson Software & Agents
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