Cox Exponential (CX2) is the early-stage AI venture vehicle of Cox Enterprises, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It invests $500k–$1m in technical founders building frontier AI and robotics companies, providing capital alongside in-house engineering and operational support.
Deal activity increased 200% year-over-year (3 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is series-a (62% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $14.5M (across 8 rounds with reported amounts).
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6
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Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
3
Team
Pantelis Kalogiros
Exponential Investor; Fyusion SVP Web/co-founder; Expert in AI and engineering.
Sebastian Thrun
Exponential Investor; co-founder of Google X, Waymo and Udacity; Director of the Stanford AI Lab.
Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Exponential Chief AI Roboticist; Director at Meta FAIR; Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google X.
Eranda Bregasi
Principal, AI Research; frontier AI/ML, agents, and robotics.
Patricia Ebner
Exponential Head of Brand Dev & Transformation; building category-defining brands, design, and growth narratives.
Ricky Horwitz
Exponential Investor & Head of GTM; experience across B2B and B2C sales and marketing.
Yuki Jenkins
Exponential Investor and CFO; Fyusion CFO.
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Last updated: 7 October 2026