Misha Laskin
About Misha Laskin
Misha Laskin is co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI. He founded it in 2024 with Ioannis Antonoglou, who previously worked on AlphaGo and was RLHF lead for Gemini. Reflection says it is building superintelligent autonomous systems, starting with coding agents.
Before Reflection he was a research scientist at Google DeepMind, where he led reinforcement learning reward modeling for Gemini 1.5, according to Lightspeed. Before that he worked under Pieter Abbeel at UC Berkeley. Third-party profiles say he holds a physics doctorate from the University of Chicago and earlier founded a Y Combinator-backed startup.
Reflection left stealth in March 2025 with $130 million in seed and Series A financing, with Sequoia, Lightspeed and CRV as partners. Press reports describe a roughly $2 billion round at an $8 billion valuation in October 2025. Wikipedia lists a $25 billion valuation as of June 2026. Reflection's products include the code-comprehension agent Asimov.
Laskin is not a full-time investor, and little of his angel activity is public. Tracxn lists him as an angel investor in 2 startups but does not name them here. The one round we could confirm is Niteshift's seed in June 2026. He has not published a check size, a number of investments or a stated angel thesis.
Niteshift raised a $7M seed round led by Greylock's Jerry Chen. Dealroom lists Laskin among the angels, alongside Reid Hoffman, Datadog co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, and Braintrust's Ankur Goyal. Niteshift was founded by former early Datadog engineers Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan. Its platform routes work between coding models such as Claude, GPT and open-source options, so teams do not depend on one vendor.
The one confirmed investment is in AI coding infrastructure at seed stage, which is also the area Laskin works in at Reflection. That is a single data point, not a stated thesis. Laskin has spoken publicly in favor of open-weight models and open-source AI, so founders building in that area may find common ground with him. Check size, target stage and geography are not public.
- Niteshift: AI coding platform that routes between coding models so enterprises avoid vendor lock-in. Laskin joined its $7M seed round in June 2026.
- app.dealroom.co/news/note/niteshift-raises-7m-seed-to-give-coding-agen
- buttondown.com/raisetrack/archive/angel-registry-update-june-12-2026
- lsvp.com/stories/towards-superintelligence-reflection-ai
- sequoiacap.com/founder/misha-laskin
- sequoiacap.com/podcast/training-data-misha-laskin
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_AI
- x.com/MishaLaskin
- x.com/MishaLaskin/status/1898048925157728601
Investing activity
Misha Laskin appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $7M. The most recent is Niteshift (Seed, $7M, Jun 2026).
Misha Laskin most often invests alongside Greylock’s Jerry Chen, Ankur Goyal, Olivier Pomel and Reid Hoffman, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Misha Laskin
Is Misha Laskin an angel investor?
Yes, in a limited way. He appears as an angel in Niteshift's $7M seed round (June 2026), and Tracxn lists him as an angel in 2 startups. His main role is CEO of Reflection AI.
What does Misha Laskin invest in?
The one confirmed investment is Niteshift, an AI coding infrastructure startup. He has not publicly described a broader investment thesis.
What is Misha Laskin's check size?
It is not public. We found no statement from him or reliable reporting on the size of his angel checks.
Who is Misha Laskin?
He is co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI, an AI lab he started in 2024 with Ioannis Antonoglou. He previously did research at Google DeepMind and led reward modeling for Gemini 1.5.
How can founders contact Misha Laskin?
He is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/mishalaskin and on X as @MishaLaskin. No personal website or investor intake form was found.
What AI companies has Misha Laskin invested in?
Misha Laskin's AI investments include Niteshift. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Misha Laskin invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Misha Laskin has invested at Seed, with a median round of $7M.
Who does Misha Laskin co-invest with?
Misha Laskin's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Greylock’s Jerry Chen (1 deal), Ankur Goyal (1 deal), Olivier Pomel (1 deal), Reid Hoffman (1 deal) and Alexis Le-Quoc (1 deal).
How can founders reach Misha Laskin?
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