Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

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Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial.

While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base funding the next generation of AI companies.

Family offices, traditionally associated with capital preservation, real estate and multi-generational wealth management are emerging as some of the most important allocators of capital in artificial intelligence.

What strikes me most is that this is no longer simply a Silicon Valley story. It is increasingly a global phenomenon, stretching from Seattle and San Francisco to Paris, London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

For much of the last decade, discussions around artificial intelligence funding have centred on venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds and large technology companies. Yet one of the most consequential developments in...

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