Abdo John Hajj
Managing Partner at Type One Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2021 - Current
We invest in startups progressing humanity forward. Type One Ventures Invests in start-ups building the technology, infrastructure, and services that will be integral as we progress towards a Type I Civilization. Portfolio Companies: Gravitics, Space Forge, Cuby Technologies, Neuralink, OpenAI, Orbitfab, Lunar Outpost, Esusu, Groq, Anthropic, Radian Aerospace, Plaid, Space X, and more.
Type One Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in aerospace, robotics, AI, and longevity.
Investor
2023
Cuby develops and operates advanced micro-factories that can build reliable, sustainable, and better homes. They can build cities in months, not years... by reshaping processes and eliminating unnecessary bloat and inefficiencies in the construction process.
Cuby builds better buildings for those that live/work/play in them by reshaping processes for those that deliver them.
Raised $6,421,604.00 from Type One Ventures and GOS Capital.
Investor
2023
On a mission to create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.
Neuralink develops a brain machine interface that provides solutions for those with paralysis.
Raised $686,241,676.00 from Bull & Bear, Roman Smolevskiy and Raison.
Investor
2019
SpaceX designs manufacture and launch the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft.
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.
Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.
Investor
2023
OpenAI is a U.S. based artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015, researching artificial intelligence with the goal of developing "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.
Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.
Investor
2024
Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Raised $362,550,552.00 from SGH CAPITAL.
Investor
2021
Artificial gravity for human habitation in space.
Gravitics is an aerospace company that designs and manufactures large space structures for human life in space.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Giant Steps Capital, Sprint Vc, Spectre, Van Espahbodi, Manhattan West, Type One Ventures, Helios Capital, Draper Associates, FJ Labs and Mana Ventures.
Investor
2022
In-space manufacturing to deliver next generation of products in semiconductor sector.
Investor
2020
Esusu provides rent reporting, rich analytics, and rent relief assistance so you can attract more qualified renters, increase on-time payments, and reduce vacancies.
Investor
2020
Our mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Raised $734,300,000.00 from Bedrock, American Express Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Raed Malek, Index Ventures and Spark Capital.