Testimonials
From our founders
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
Research-Driven, Conviction-Led
Research-Driven, Conviction-Led
Research-Driven, Conviction-Led
Research-Driven, Conviction-Led
The first partner for technical founders. We turn groundbreaking research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-native startups.
The first partner for technical founders. We turn groundbreaking research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-native startups.
The first partner for technical founders. We turn groundbreaking research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-native startups.
We come from the world’s top AI companies
We come from the world’s top AI companies
We come from the world’s top AI companies
The Two Token Economics of AI
Why the same token is a bargain for one buyer and an overpay for another
From Stopwatches to Systems of Action
The New Factories of the AI Age
Our Predictions for 2026
What 2025 Got Wrong and the Bets We’re Making for This Year
The Leonis AI 100
Benchmarking the Most Important AI Startups of 2025
OpenAI: Building the "Everything Platform" in AI
Introducing the first piece in our Leonis Capital company profile series.
The Two Token Economics of AI
Why the same token is a bargain for one buyer and an overpay for another
From Stopwatches to Systems of Action
The New Factories of the AI Age
Our Predictions for 2026
What 2025 Got Wrong and the Bets We’re Making for This Year
The Leonis AI 100
Benchmarking the Most Important AI Startups of 2025
OpenAI: Building the "Everything Platform" in AI
Introducing the first piece in our Leonis Capital company profile series.
Our companies
Research-backed conviction
We invest in founders with unique insights and technical expertise.
Our companies
Research-backed conviction
We invest in founders with unique insights and technical expertise.
Our companies
Research-backed conviction
We invest in founders with unique insights and technical expertise.
Our companies
Research-backed conviction
We invest in founders with unique insights and technical expertise.
why leonis?
why leonis?
From research insights to investment theses
From research insights to investment theses
From research insights to investment theses
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-first startups.
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-first startups.
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into transformative investments, fueling the next generation of AI-first startups.
Research-driven
Research-driven
We prioritize in-depth research, bringing cutting-edge intelligence to our portfolio companies and community.
We prioritize in-depth research, bringing cutting-edge intelligence to our portfolio companies and community.
First check investors
First check investors
Value is created at the earliest stage. That’s why we are usually the first institutional check into seed and preseed startups.
Value is created at the earliest stage. That’s why we are usually the first institutional check into seed and preseed startups.
AI-native
AI-native
We believe AI is a supercycle technology that will create transformative value. We back startups that are AI-native.
We believe AI is a supercycle technology that will create transformative value. We back startups that are AI-native.
Founder-aligned
Founder-aligned
We partner with technical founders, offering long-term support beyond capital. Our goal is to be their most aligned and trusted partner from idea to breakout.
We partner with technical founders, offering long-term support beyond capital. Our goal is to be their most aligned and trusted partner from idea to breakout.
Testimonials
From our founders
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
Testimonials
From our founders
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
Leonis is building Research Capital
Leonis is building Research Capital
Every age has its builders. They built ships and railroads, then chips, networks, and software.
Our age is building intelligence itself.
Intelligence is becoming infrastructure: a layer through which work, science, and industry will operate. For decades, software helped humans record, organize, and communicate information. Now it is beginning to reason and act, coordinating work, accelerating science, operating industrial systems, and reshaping how institutions make decisions.
Leonis exists for the founders who feel that weight. The ones turning intelligence into systems the world can rely on. The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
Leonis was built for that moment. We stand beside those founders with capital, research, trust, and time. The future is built before consensus.
Every age has its builders. They built ships and railroads, then chips, networks, and software.
Our age is building intelligence itself.
Intelligence is becoming infrastructure: a layer through which work, science, and industry will operate. For decades, software helped humans record, organize, and communicate information. Now it is beginning to reason and act, coordinating work, accelerating science, operating industrial systems, and reshaping how institutions make decisions.
Leonis exists for the founders who feel that weight. The ones turning intelligence into systems the world can rely on. The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
Leonis was built for that moment. We stand beside those founders with capital, research, trust, and time. The future is built before consensus.
Every age has its builders. They built ships and railroads, then chips, networks, and software.
Our age is building intelligence itself.
Intelligence is becoming infrastructure: a layer through which work, science, and industry will operate. For decades, software helped humans record, organize, and communicate information. Now it is beginning to reason and act, coordinating work, accelerating science, operating industrial systems, and reshaping how institutions make decisions.
Leonis exists for the founders who feel that weight. The ones turning intelligence into systems the world can rely on. The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
The future first appears as a weak signal. A strange prototype. A technical obsession. A founder who sounds too early. A market that looks too small because the world has not yet changed around it.
Leonis was built for that moment. We stand beside those founders with capital, research, trust, and time. The future is built before consensus.
Testimonials
From our founders
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team's ability to combine technical knowledge with market insights helped us navigate critical early decisions that most VCs couldn't meaningfully contribute to."
Fryderyk Wiatrowski
Founder & CEO
“Leonis has been great investor and friend from the early days of MaintainX. They have always provided us with researched insight.”
Chris Turlica
Founder & CEO
“Leonis was one of our earliest believers and made a meaningful difference on our trajectory.”
Harry Qi
Founder & CEO
"The Leonis team has taken time to understand our market dynamics, allowing them to provide contextual advice and make strategic intros."
Alejandro León
Founder & CEO
Get Started
Research-driven investors for technical founders
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into investment conviction, backing AI-native companies before the category is obvious.
Get Started
Research-driven investors for technical founders
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into investment conviction, backing AI-native companies before the category is obvious.
Get Started
Research-driven investors for technical founders
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into investment conviction, backing AI-native companies before the category is obvious.
Get Started
Research-driven investors for technical founders
Our mission is to turn groundbreaking AI research into investment conviction, backing AI-native companies before the category is obvious.
© 2025 Leonis Capital. All rights reserved.
© 2025 Leonis Capital. All rights reserved.
© 2025 Leonis Capital. All rights reserved.
© 2025 Leonis Capital. All rights reserved.