According to the Wall Street Journal, Ashton Kucher, an actor and investor, will leave the Sound Ventures, founded 11 years ago with Guy Oseiary, and prepare a new wind project with Morgan Beller. TechCrunch stated that it had been previously informed that Kucher was about to leave and that the plans were now clearer.

New funds shifted to earlier projects

The report indicates that the name of the new institution has not yet been made public. Morgan Beller, a former regular partner of the Seed Wheel Investment Agency NFX, also participated in the Libra encryption project in Meta and worked for nearly three years in Andreasen Horowitz.

Unlike Sound Ventures, which in recent years has become more investment-oriented towards relatively mature companies, Kucher and Beller's new fund will focus on the earlier stages, focusing mainly on AI Infrastructure, Energy and Deep Technology Entrepreneurship.

Moving from model to bottom capacity

Sound Ventures has been targeted for betting head AI, investing in OpenAI, Anthropic, and World Labs, founded by Lee Fei, as well as Brex and Gusto.

This split is more of a focus because it reflects that AI financial flows may be changing. Couche ' s new fund is more inclined to support the bottom-up capabilities of the companies, including computing infrastructure, energy supply and engineering technology-driven deep-tech projects, than to continue to focus on head model companies.

  • Key tracks include AI infrastructure
  • It also covers energy-related start-ups.
  • Deep-tech projects are one of the main directions.

Retain consulting relationship after departure

According to the report, the departure of Kucher from Sound Ventures does not mean that the institution operates under pressure. Sound Ventures is still seen as one of the more performing institutions.

Kucher will continue to serve as Sound Ventures Adviser after his departure. At the same time, Guy Oseary and Sound Ventures' regular partners, Effie Epstein, will also advise Kucher and Beller on new institutions.

According to the Wall Street Journal, part of the reason for the separation was a difference of view of the investment phase. Sound prefers to invest in the development of more mature companies, while Kucher wants to invest in earlier start-ups.