Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Aydin Senkut, a former senior Google executive, managing over $4 billion across seed through growth-stage investments. The firm has backed iconic companies including Shopify, Fitbit, Adyen, Credit Karma, and Notion. In AI, Felicis led funding rounds for both Runway and Hugging Face, demonstrating its ability to identify category-defining companies in creative AI and open-source AI infrastructure. Felicis is known for its global investment approach, with portfolio companies spanning over 30 countries, and its emphasis on backing founders who are building transformative products that serve massive addressable markets.