Mellon Foundation – Startup Investor Profile

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The Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities.
Location: New York
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Investment Stages: seed, series-a

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Status: active

AI Reasoning: Search results show the Richard King Mellon Foundation (part of Mellon philanthropic organizations) made investments in 2025: e.g., investment in Joint AI (press 4 Sep 2025) and other 2025 awards (September-October 2025). The most recent known investment (Joint AI on Sep 4, 2025) is about 1 month and change before November 1, 2025, which falls within the 3-6 month window? Actually Sep 4 to Nov 1 is under 2 months – less than 3 months. Therefore classification corresponds to very-active. However the investor named in prompt is Mellon Foundation (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation primarily funds arts/humanities) – recent public investments/grants by Mellon/related Richard King Mellon Foundation occurred in 2025 (Sept/Oct 2025) including investment in Joint AI. Time since last investment is less than 3 months, indicating the highest activity level.

Here are the thresholds established for the different statuses:
Not Active – No known investments in the last 12 months.
Low Activity – Only known investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Active – Known investments between the last 6 and 3 months.
Very Active – Known investments in the last 3 months.

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