Ashton Kutcher is leaving the venture firm he built over the past decade to start something new. The actor and prolific tech investor is departing Sound Ventures, the early-stage fund he co-founded in 2015, to launch a new venture capital firm alongside Morgan Beller, who recently stepped down as general partner at NFX.
The new firm will target early-stage startups, though the specific fund size and investment thesis haven’t been publicly disclosed yet.
Two resumes that overlap in all the right places
Kutcher’s departure from Sound Ventures isn’t a clean break. He’ll continue providing advisory support to the firm, which manages over $1B in assets under management and has built a portfolio that includes stakes in Airbnb, Uber, and a reported $30 million position in OpenAI.
Sound Ventures also raised a $240 million fund dedicated to AI investments, with positions in both OpenAI and Anthropic.
