Molly Welch is a Partner at Radical Ventures, based in San Francisco. Molly invests in early-stage AI-native startups, including frontier AI, infrastructure, and application AI startups. She has led investments or been involved with Radical portfolio companies Generalist, Muon Space, Outset, Periodic Labs, P-1, Spara, World Labs, and others not yet public.
Prior to Radical, Molly worked on the Google Brain team, collaborating with research leadership on commercial initiatives and special projects. During graduate school, she also worked on AI policy at Lyft and as a venture investor at frontier tech VC Playground Global.
Molly holds a B.A. with distinction from Stanford University, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. She is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member.
