Person profile
Igor Babuschkin
Super founder
Trained in physics at TU Dortmund and formerly a researcher at CERN, this founder held senior engineering roles at DeepMind and OpenAI. He co-founded xAI with Elon Musk, spearheaded the development of Grok, and helped build it into a multi-billion-dollar company. He is now building River AI, an AI research startup developing advanced artificial intelligence systems.
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Companies backed
2
Companies founded
$38.2B
Total funding raised
1 school
Education
Investments 2
Companies backed, as recorded by Dealroom. Highest company valuations first.
Companies founded
River AI
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xAI
Work history
Past roles by Dealroom records.
Education
Technische Universität Dortmund