About Basis Set

At Basis Set, we invest in exceptional people early.

We’ve been backing AI companies since 2017, before ChatGPT was a household name. We were the first investors in Quince, which rebuilt retail with a factory-direct model and became one of the fastest-growing companies in the country. We’re also partnering with Superpilot, which helps commerce teams move faster with AI-native content and publishing. From the beginning, we’ve approached founders and operators from first principles — studying the underlying attributes that actually drive exceptional outcomes.

The Commerce Track is for early-career builders excited about one of the biggest opportunities in AI: rebuilding how products are sold, merchandised, and operated online. As commerce teams adopt AI across creative, catalog, growth, and operations, the winners will be people who can connect product instinct with execution speed.

This program is designed for people who want to build that future: AI-native commerce tools, better merchandising systems, faster growth loops, and software that makes online retail feel far less manual.

Basis Set AI Fellows

Built for people at a career inflection point, especially:

• Technical candidates who want stronger product, customer, and business judgment
• Product, business, and operations candidates who want to become more technical

The goal is the same: help you become someone who can connect product, engineering, and strategy inside high-growth AI companies. If you’re ambitious, high-agency, and want to grow into a more cross-functional operator, this program is designed for you.

What You Get

• Mentorship from portfolio company CEOs and experienced operators
• A cohort of exceptional peers
• Fast-tracked full-time opportunities
• Access the Basis Set platform as you explore and build, with 1:1 guidance from our team

Select Project Fellows also get:

• Paid, embedded project work at some of the fastest growing AI companies