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’re partnering with Internet Backyard, which is building the financial backbone for the compute economy. From the beginning, we’ve approached founders and operators from first principles — studying the underlying attributes that actually drive exceptional outcomes.

The Data Centers Track is for early-career builders excited about one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI: compute infrastructure. As demand for training and inference explodes, the frontier is no longer just models, it’s the systems, economics, and operations behind getting compute where it needs to go.

This program is designed for people who want to build that future: metering, billing, contracts, capacity planning, and the software that makes the compute economy actually work.

Basis Set AI Fellows

Built for people at a career inflection point, especially:

• Technical candidates who want stronger commercial and systems judgment around compute
• Finance, operations, and infrastructure candidates who want to become more technical with AI, software, and data

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