1517 Fund
1517fund.com Direct investor
1517 Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups founded by dropouts, students, and deep tech scientists. They provide funding from idea stage to seed, with a focus on software, hardware, deep tech, and biotech.
1517 Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in software, hardware, deep tech and biotech. Its stated cheque size is Our first checks range from $50,000 at the idea/R&D stage to $1,000,000 for deep tech/sci-fi seed stage companies. Our average check size is a $400,000 pre-seed check.. $175mm+ under management, as it reports.
“We back dropouts working on hard problems & sci-fi scientists at the earliest stages of their companies.”
— 1517 Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- United States
- Invests in
- global
- Cheque size
- Our first checks range from $50,000 at the idea/R&D stage to $1,000,000 for deep tech/sci-fi seed stage companies. Our average check size is a $400,000 pre-seed check.
- Founded
- 2015
- Assets under management
- $175mm+
Team, as 1517 Fund publishes it
- Danielle Strachman General Partner, Co-Founder
- Michael Gibson General Partner, Co-Founder
Names and roles exactly as listed on 1517fund.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 co-investors found.
- B Capital 2 shared companies: fountain.com, lambdalabs.com
- Lockheed Martin Ventures 2 shared companies: atom-computing.com, xonaspace.com
- Pathbreaker Ventures II, LLC 2 shared companies: ntopology.com, getpresso.com
- Newfund 1 shared company: cents.com
- AppWorks 1 shared company: discord.gg
- Array Ventures Management LLC 1 shared company: discord.gg
- Arrington Capital 1 shared company: discord.gg
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: discord.gg
- Crypto.com Capital 1 shared company: discord.gg
- Denver Ventures 1 shared company: discord.gg
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page 1517 Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.1517fund.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, people
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