Jeff Bezos’ family office backed five AI startups in June

Jeff Bezos attends the Viva Technology Show at Parc des Expositions on June 17, 2026 in Paris, France.

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Thanks to Jeff Bezos, the summer has started well for the investment companies of the super-rich.

It’s in June Amazon According to exclusive data from Fintrx, the private wealth intelligence platform, the founder’s family office made five direct investments in startups, accounting for 10% of the family office deal. Bezos Expeditions is now the most active family office investor this year, with eight direct investments in private companies, according to Fintrx data.

The 21-year-old family office last month participated in five megarounds for artificial intelligence startups, including a $12 billion Series B for Prometheus. The startup, which is now worth around $41 billion, counts Bezos among its co-founders and co-CEOs. Prometheus aims to create an “artificial engineer” that will accelerate the development and manufacturing of physical products from aircraft engines to pharmaceuticals, Bezos told CNBC’s David Faber on June 11.

“What drives the prosperity of nations? What drives civilizational wealth? … The answer is invention,” Bezos said in an interview on “Squawk Box.” “Our goal at Prometheus, what we’re working on, is to develop a set of tools that accelerate this invention loop. So how long does it take to improve something? How long does it take – from idea to actually making, evaluating and resulting in a useful object?”

He added that Prometheus had to raise so much capital – more than $18 billion so far – to build huge data sets, which requires a lot of computing power.

While Prometheus takes up most of Bezos’ time, his eponymous investment firm has added four new nine-figure startups to its portfolio: General Intuition, CuspAI, Generalist and Flourish.

The Bezos Expeditions portfolio illustrates the range of approaches and goals in developing AI models. The family-owned company co-led fundraising efforts for CuspAI, which develops AI models for chemistry, and Flourish, a startup that develops models inspired by the human brain. Another new investment, Generalist, is focused on enabling robots to handle increasingly complex tasks.

Hillspire, the family office of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, also participated in General Intuition’s $320 million Series A. General Intuition uses millions of hours of video games to train spatial AI models.

Bezos told CNBC earlier this spring that he wasn’t worried about an AI bubble.

“Even if it is indeed a bubble, you shouldn’t worry about it because the bubble drives investment and a lot of the investment will turn out to be very healthy,” Bezos said in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box” in May. “Investors currently haven’t learned to distinguish between good and bad ideas, and that’s okay because the good ideas pay off for all the losers.”

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