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Alexandra Farmer

Investing in AI at Intel Capital

Austin, Texas

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Venture Capital Associate

    2022

    Over three decades, Intel Capital has invested more than US $20 billion in the future of compute, backing standout, early-stage startups across four key areas of the tech ecosystem; Silicon, Frontier, Devices and Cloud. Intel Capital-backed companies have produced more than 700 IPOs and exits, and created more than US $100 billion in market value in the past 10 years.

  • Venture Capital Analyst

    2020 - 2022

2024

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2024

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Seed investment in RunPod co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital with participation from Julien Chaummond, Nat Friedman, and Adam Lewis. RunPod is a globally distributed GPU cloud platform that empowers developers to deploy custom full-stack AI applications – simply, globally, and at scale. With RunPod’s key offerings, GPU Instances and Serverless GPUs, developers can develop, train and scale AI applications in one cloud within seconds. RunPod is committed to making cloud computing accessible and affordable without compromising features, usability, or experience. It strives to empower individuals and enterprises with cutting-edge technology, enabling them to unlock the potential of AI and cloud computing.

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2024

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series F investment in Scale AI led by Accel with participation from returning investors including Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Greenoaks, and Wellington Management. New investors included Cisco Investments, DFJ Growth, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Amazon, Elad Gil, and Meta. Led by CEO and Founder Alexandr Wang, Scale leverages a proprietary data engine to power advanced models and provide the roadmap for any organization to apply AI.

2023

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2023

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series A lead investment in Zenity and joined by existing investors Vertex Ventures and Upwest, as well as new investors from Gefen Capital and B5. Zenity is the first company that is focused on low-code/no-code security and governance, protects organizations from security threats, helps meet compliance, and enables business continuity. Established in 2021, Fortune 500 organizations from financial services, pharmaceuticals, high tech and healthcare already trust Zenity to help configure security guardrails, generate prioritized lists of vulnerabilities, and accurately pinpoint and remediate them by continuously scanning all connected low-code/no-code platforms with centralized visibility

2021

  • Intel Capital Investor & Board Observer

    2021

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B investment in Fly.io led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other participants in the latest Series B round included Dell Technologies Capital, Initialized Capital, and Planetscale CEO Sam Lambert. Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.

2021

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2021

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series A lead investment in Moderne with participation from True Ventures, Mango Capital and Allstate Strategic Ventures. Moderne’s mission is to solve the laborious and manual tasks of software development that suck the productivity out of developers and kill innovation. The company accelerates software development through continuous software modernization across an organization’s codebase, freeing developers to do what they love—create great software

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2022

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series A lead investment in Freshpaint and subsequent Series B led by Threshold with additional participation from SignalFire, Zero Prime, and Y Combinator Founded by veterans of the web analytics space, Freshpaint helps teams capture and use the customer data they need to build a better product, drive engagement, and improve retention – without the heavy engineering work traditionally required. Freshpaint is a data platform to connect and standardize customer data from your site or app to your marketing and analytics tools. Freshpaint complements your precision tracking with automated instrumentation. Retroactively send customer data to 100+ tools in one click.

  • Intel Capital Investor

    2021

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B in Fabric8Labs led by NEA. Other investors include Lam Capital, TDK Ventures, SE Ventures, imec.xpand, Stanley Ventures, and Mark Cuban Fabric8Labs, Inc. is revolutionizing metal additive manufacturing with its advanced 3D printing technologies. Founded in 2015, the San Diego-based company is at the forefront of advanced manufacturing and is commercializing breakthroughs in material science and processing - reducing manufacturing costs and supporting significant advancements in material quality and manufacturing capabilities. Fabric8Labs is working to broaden the market for metal additive manufacturing across all industries.

2022

  • Intel Capital Investor & Board Observer

    2022

    Investment team member on Intel Capital's lead investment in AMFG AMFG is a leading provider of MES software for additive manufacturing. The platform empowers companies to streamline and manage their entire additive manufacturing workflows, integrating machine learning technology to deliver streamlined, automated processes.

  • Member

    2021

    VentureNext cultivates, promotes and retains the next generation of diverse venture capital investors with a Midwestern US focus