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title: "Vicarious: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Vicarious was an artificial intelligence company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It uses the theorized computational principles of the brain to attempt to build software that can think and learn like a human."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-vicarious
type: Organization
wikidata: Q15991488
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_(company)
website: http://vicarious.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Vicarious

> Vicarious was an artificial intelligence company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It uses the theorized computational principles of the brain to attempt to build software that can think and learn like a human.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-vicarious

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2010-01-01
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: http://vicarious.com/
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2020-08-14: Form D, USD 13.2 million sold of a USD 18.2 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681020000001/))
- 2019-01-31: Form D, USD 10 million sold of a USD 10 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681019000002/))
- 2018-03-26: Form D/A, USD 16.8 million sold of a USD 16.8 million offering, 9 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681018000002/))
- 2018-01-16: Form D, USD 12.7 million sold of a USD 15 million offering, 2 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681018000001/))
- 2016-10-19: Form D, USD 800 thousand sold of a USD 800 thousand offering, 1 investor ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681016000005/))
- 2016-05-27: Form D, USD 1 million sold of a USD 1 million offering, 2 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681016000003/))
- 2016-02-18: Form D, USD 2.4 million sold of a USD 2.4 million offering, 11 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666810/000166681016000001/))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Vicarious, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-vicarious#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15991488, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_(company)
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001666810

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