# The VC Fund Backing AI Companies Fixing Real, Unsexy Problems | Doug Griffin, Spatial Capital

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Podcast: [Top Decile Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/top-decile-podcast-7851283)
Published: 2026-05-06T11:24:35+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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