Jeff Bezos Investments in 2024: 5 Companies Bezos Is Investing In

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5. Pilot

Pilot was founded to solve some of the most perennial problems: bookkeeping, accounting and taxes. In 2021, Pilot raised $100 million in a Series C funding round. Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions took part in the round. Other notable funders included Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures, among others.

4. Nature’s Fynd

Nature’s Fynd makes microbe-based proteins for meat substitutes and dairy substitutes. The company’s primary ingredient is a microbe founded in the Yellowstone National Park. In 2021, the company raised $158 million in funding from investors including Bezos, Gates, and Al Gore.

3. General Fusion

Canada-based General Fusion is harnessing fusion power for commercial purposes. Jeff Bezos has long been a backer of General Fusion. In 2021, General Fusion raised $130 million in a Series E round from investors including billionaire Jeff Bezos to help develop a commercial reactor.

Last year, General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine designed to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, and progress toward scientific breakeven by 2026.

2. Overtime

Sports and media company Overtime distributes  original sports content on social media outlets, including Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube. Overtime in 2021 raised $80 million in a funding round in which Jeff Bezos’ investment firm Bezos Expeditions, Drake, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and several other notable investors took part.

1. Perplexity

San Francisco-based startup Perplexity plans to upend the search industry (read Google) with AI. Its answer engine, which directly gives answers to searched questions instead of showing web links, is already used by 10 million users every month. Recently, Perplexity raised a whopping $74 million in a round in which Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions took part, in addition to Institutional Venture Partners. The investment round valued the startup at $520 million.

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