Leaders of the Autonomy Revolution, with a multi-billion-dollar track record and an LP community of 70+ unicorn founders and operators.

Rebellion Ventures—The Autonomy Fund—is a seed and pre-seed VC firm in Silicon Valley at the forefront of the Autonomy Revolution. We back founders building vertically specialized autonomous operations and systems that sense, decide, and act—unlocking step-change operational performance in essential industries, including manufacturing/industrial, supply chain/logistics, commerce/trade, finance, healthcare, and beyond. Our portfolio benefits from an LP community of 70+ unicorn founders and operators and a track record of multi-billion-dollar exits.

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Operating track record, growing startups to multi-billion-dollar outcomes and industry-leading businesses.

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Operator LP & Advisor Community of 70+ unicorn founders, CEOs, operating executives, and industry experts, bringing value-add and relationships.

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Based in Silicon Valley and investing in companies across the US and North America.

Dr. Jukka Alanen

Founder & Managing Partner

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Jukka is the Founder and Managing Partner of Rebellion Ventures, a specialist VC firm focused on autonomous operations and systems. He brings 20+ years of senior operating experience, having helped build three VC-backed startups to $3.5B in IPO and M&A exits. His work combines multi-billion-dollar operating experience, dozens of autonomy investments, and doctoral research on how innovators create and disrupt markets in the era of AI.

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Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT

Principal Scientist

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Ramesh is a Principal Scientist with Rebellion Ventures. He is Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab and Associate Professor at MIT, specializing in autonomous, decentralized agentic AI systems, computer vision, and AI innovation. A prolific inventor with 125+ U.S. patents, he has translated groundbreaking research into startups and products as a serial AI entrepreneur and advisor.

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Rebellion Research Fellows

The Rebellion Research Fellows Program brings together a small, selective group of senior researchers and technologists whose expertise aligns with Rebellion’s focus on autonomous operations and systems. Research Fellows serve as external scientific advisors and collaborators, helping bridge frontier research with Rebellion’s practical insights from leading-edge startups.

Prof. Maxim Likhachev, Carnegie Mellon University

Professor at the CMU Robotics Institute and National Robotics Engineering Center, leading research on real-time planning and decision-making for autonomous robotic systems operating in complex, real-world environments. Profile

Prof. Sewon Min, UC Berkeley

Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS and a Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, leading research on NLP, foundation models, LLMs, reasoning, reinforcement learning, and agentic systems relevant to autonomous operations and systems. Profile

Prof. Dhruv Shah, Princeton University

Assistant Professor at Princeton University, leader of the Robotic Intelligence and Systems group, and Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, leading research on embodied AI, robot learning and foundation models (e.g., VLAs, world models), multi-agent and human–robot interaction, and autonomous improvement at scale. Profile

Rebellion Operator LP & Advisor Community

The Rebellion Operator LP & Advisor Community includes 70+ unicorn founders, CEOs, operating executives, and industry experts who are LPs. Many have built and scaled category-defining companies and high-performing operations and can bring their experience and insights to Rebellion and our autonomy-native portfolio companies. The community spans founders and leaders from frontier startups as well as senior operators from leading tech and industrial companies.

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Help founders move faster, scale better, and avoid costly mistakes through experienced input on what matters most for success

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Support company-building across core functions (e.g., GTM/sales, marketing, product, engineering/AI, people, finance/ops)

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