Inspired CapitalInvestor
Apr 2026 — Present
Luke Bender is an Investor at Inspired Capital, a generalist venture fund partnering with founders at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A. He previously was a founding team member at a stealth startup and a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer for voice AI agents at Regal. From 2022 to 2025 he was a Product Manager on AI Agents at Microsoft AI, where he was lead patent inventor for middleware infrastructure in its agent platform. He also advises and invests in early-stage generative AI startups.
Luke Bender is an Investor at Inspired Capital, a generalist venture fund partnering with founders at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A. He previously was a founding team member at a stealth startup and a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer for voice AI agents at Regal. From 2022 to 2025 he was a Product Manager on AI Agents at Microsoft AI, where he was lead patent inventor for middleware infrastructure in its agent platform. He also advises and invests in early-stage generative AI startups.
Apr 2026 — Present
Nov 2025 — Apr 2026
2024 — Apr 2026
Aug 2025 — Nov 2025
Aug 2022 — Aug 2025
2020 — 2022