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The VC Fund Backing AI Companies Fixing Real, Unsexy Problems | Doug Griffin, Spatial Capital
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- Top Decile Podcast
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- May 6, 2026
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Summary
Doug Griffin has founded four companies in computer vision and spatial AI. Three exited, including acquisitions by Apple and Roblox. Now he's running Spatial Capital, backing early-stage physical AI and spatial computing founders tackling the problems nobody else wants to touch. We get into why he only bets on unsexy problems, how AI can compressing 13-year mining timelines down to three, and what it actually takes to build a VC fund when you've already lived in your founders' shoes.