D.E. Shaw Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that backs founding teams from post-seed through growth and later-stage rounds. The firm invests in technically complex software and infrastructure companies across AI and machine learning, data, cloud, developer tools, robotics, SaaS, security, analytics and industrial technology, with Switzerland represented in its investment activity. Portfolio companies include OpenAI, Databricks, Anthropic, ClickHouse and Neural Concept.