How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup

Flying Fish Partners’ Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo) The venture world is still digesting the eye-popping debut of London-based Ineffable Intelligence , the new startup from DeepMind legend David Silver , which announced $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion valuation this week. The deal — which CNBC called the largest-ever seed round for a European startup — drew heavyweight backers including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google and Nvidia.