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Nathan Benaich

Founder and General Partner, Air Street Capital

  • Founder and General Partner, Air Street Capital1
  • Managing Trustee, The RAAIS Foundation1

Nathan Benaich co-authors the State of AI Report, an annual report on AI research, industry, policy, and safety published with Air Street Capital, whose 2026 edition is the ninth. Nathan also writes essays on AI progress and geopolitics on Air Street Press and the monthly Guide to AI newsletter. Nathan is the founder and general partner of Air Street Capital, a venture firm investing in AI-first companies, and founded the Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS). Nathan holds a PhD in computational and experimental cancer research from the University of Cambridge.12

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Founder and General Partner +1 more
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Education
Cambridge
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Career

Benaich earned an MPhil and PhD in computational and experimental cancer research at the University of Cambridge and has published research using experimental and computational methods to study how cancer spreads through the body. In the State of AI Report, Benaich traces an interest in AI to that doctoral work in the early 2010s and writes of investing in companies that build and apply AI since 2013.12

Benaich founded and is general partner of Air Street Capital, a venture firm investing in AI-first companies. Benaich also founded the Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS), a community for entrepreneurs and researchers, serves as managing trustee of the RAAIS Foundation, a charity that funds open-source projects, research and education in AI, and leads Spinout.fyi, a research initiative on university spinout creation.1

Writing

Benaich co-authors the annual State of AI Report with Air Street Capital; the 2026 edition is the ninth and covers frontier models, agents, AI for science, robotics and world models, and the industry around them. Each edition makes predictions and later grades them. Benaich also writes essays on AI progress, playbooks and geopolitics on Air Street Press and a monthly newsletter, the Guide to AI.21

Work and contributions

  • State of AI Report Show, channel or publication

    Co-authors the annual State of AI Report on AI research, industry, geopolitics, and safety, including its yearly predictions.21

Timeline

  1. Began investing in companies building and applying AI.2
  2. Published the ninth annual State of AI Report with Air Street Capital.2

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Nathan Benaich, Air Street CapitalNathan Benaich · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. State of AI Report 2026Air Street Capital · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026