QuantumLight, the venture capital firm founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, has successfully closed its inaugural $250 million fund, reaching its hard cap with backing from a global roster of top-tier investors, including billionaire tech founders and major institutions. Established in 2023, QuantumLight applies a data-driven, scientific approach to venture investing, leveraging its proprietary AI model, Aleph, to systematically identify high-potential growth-stage startups across sectors such as AI, Web3, Fintech, SaaS, and Healthtech.
The firm’s investment strategy is distinguished by its reliance on Aleph, an AI platform designed to detect outlier companies with exceptional growth prospects, enabling QuantumLight to make more precise and unbiased investment decisions compared to traditional human judgment. Since its inception, QuantumLight has supported 17 companies, with approximately 70% of its portfolio based in the United States.
Alongside the fund closing, QuantumLight has published its second operational playbook, *Hiring Top Talent*, co-authored by Storonsky and CEO Ilya Kondrashov. This guide builds on their earlier manual, *Driving High Performance*, and reveals the structured recruitment methodology that helped Revolut scale to over 10,000 employees in about a decade. The playbook offers founders a practical, step-by-step framework for hiring rapidly without sacrificing quality, emphasizing the identification of high-potential problem-solvers through a consistent, repeatable process that reduces bias and enhances hiring effectiveness.
A key insight from the playbook is the strategic importance of maintaining an in-house recruitment team early in a startup’s growth, rather than outsourcing talent acquisition. QuantumLight aims to share these operational principles to help founders accelerate scaling and build high-performing teams efficiently.
Nik Storonsky articulated the firm’s ambition: “Our goal is to build the world’s best systematic venture capital and growth equity firm—and support the new generation of founders by sharing some of the operating principles that we developed at Revolut”. QuantumLight’s approach signals a shift in venture capital towards more scientific, AI-powered decision-making, setting a new standard for how funds identify and support promising startups globally.
In summary, QuantumLight’s $250 million fund close and the launch of its hiring playbook underscore the firm’s commitment to combining advanced AI-driven investing with operational excellence drawn from Storonsky’s experience at Revolut, positioning it as a pioneering force in systematic venture capital.
