Neural Networks Capital is a US-based firm that invests in frontier technologies and entrepreneurs who are solving some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Current investment portfolio includes category-leading companies in AI, renewable energy (generation, storage & distribution), data center infrastructure, semiconductor, next-generation communication infrastructure, and consumer internet.
Investments
NNC invests in both public and growth stage private companies
Fund Background
The significant growth of the underlying products and businesses in the portfolio has driven NNC's outsized performance over the past decade. Stanley's decade-plus experience as an internet entrepreneur and early investor in some of the most transformational technology companies of our time has made him deeply appreciate the importance of finding entrepreneurs motivated by the scale and urgency of problems they are solving, with solutions grounded in first-principle thinking.
Technologies and products that have built-in learning loops and network effects have been a key focus area of NNC over the past decade. New industrial technologies that scale with rapidly declining cost curves are key investment areas of the fund this decade.
Because NNC is an owner-operated fund, it has a long horizon for investment returns and prides itself on getting into early development and/or complex situations with entrepreneurs and owners to develop products and drive real, sustainable growth.
Our focus
Neural Networks Cap focuses on the following key themes, which are key learnings from its founder‘s decade-plus work in the internet and technology industries
Platform companies with built in feedback loops, network effects and declining / zero marginal costs.
Vertically integrated machine learning applications with short distance to sensor data and embedded data flywheel.
New industrial technologies that will scale exponentially with rapidly declining cost curves as a function of units produced.
Entrepreneurs deeply motivated by the scale and urgency of the problems they are solving with solutions grounded in first principle thinking.
Founder
background
Stanley Yuan is a serial entrepreneur and technology investor with one successful exit. Stanley founded Otto (a personalized audio app) in 2014, one of the fastest audio apps at the time, and grew the platform to 10 million users globally. The company was acquired in 2019 by one of the largest audio platforms on the planet with 300 million users.
Otto raised funds from top venture capital, struck distribution partnerships with Uber and Samsung, and was named the Best Audio Startup in 2016 by industry publications. Stanley was profiled in the Wall Street Journal and PC Magazine for his innovations in the digital media space.
Stanley started his career at Goldman Sachs on its internet banking team and was a top-tier analyst. Stanley graduated in the top 15% from Columbia University with a degree in applied mathematics.
Current projects in Stanley’s product studio includes:
