futurepresent emerges from stealth with $300M Fund I to back AI infrastructure and industry startups

futurepresent, a German-US VC firm built as a deliberately small partnership with a transatlantic footprint, has emerged from stealth with a $300M Fund I and 14 portfolio companies already backed across pre-seed through growth stages. The firm invests across three focus areas: AI for the physical world, including General Intuition's spatiotemporal reasoning models; applied AI in complex industries, including autonomous tax and audit provider Skalar and insurance AI startups Afori and inca; and AI infrastructure, including vertically integrated data pipeline startup Isidor and MSP infrastructure company Slide. Partners Thomas Lueke and Johnson Yang previously spent a decade building venture funds across multi-stage and specialist firms, and are positioning futurepresent around founder relationships over platform scale.