Web3｜Foresee to Encounter｜Sentient Research Report Sentient: AI + Crypto Decentralized AGI Founded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Pantera Capital, with Framework Ventures leading the investment and Hack VC participating; completed $85 million in seed funding. Pramod Viswanath is the co-founder of Sentient and a professor of engineering at Princeton University. Himanshu Tyagi is the co-founder of Sentient and Witness Chain, as well as an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science.