Designer Fund
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Designer Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies where design is core to value creation, focusing on health, sustainability, and prosperity. It provides design expertise and support to portfolio companies.
Designer Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in health, sustainability, prosperity and design. Its stated cheque size is $500K–$1.5M.
“We invest in early stage startups and help them succeed with design across their team, product and brand.”
— Designer Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- health, sustainability, prosperity, design, technology
- Cheque size
- $500K–$1.5M
- Founded
- 2014
Team, as Designer Fund publishes it
- Ben Blumenrose Co-founder, Managing Partner
- Robyn Park Head of Platform
- Jackie Berardo Principal
- Maya Blumenfeld General Counsel
- Eric Sundstrom CFO
- Steve Vassallo Anchor Investor & Fund Advisor
- Dave Baggeroer Design Partner, Advisor
- Santhi Analytis Advisor
- Alex Diehl Advisor
- Alissa Briggs Advisor
- Ben Siscovick Advisor
- Dan Becker Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on designerfund.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 195 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- General Catalyst 5 shared companies: stripe.com, commure.com, atob.com, augusthealth.com…
- Homebrew 4 shared companies: gusto.com, ambrook.com, hummingbird.co, usequanta.com
- Moxxie Management, LLC 4 shared companies: augusthealth.com, felt.com, honeycomb-labs.com, getlumen.com
- Torch Capital 4 shared companies: liftoff.xyz, ro.co, seconddoor.app, superhi.com
- Salesforce Ventures 3 shared companies: airtable.com, stripe.com, linear.app
- Toba Capital 3 shared companies: airtable.com, commure.com, euclidpower.com
- SV Angel 3 shared companies: stripe.com, notion.so, gusto.com
- Index Ventures 3 shared companies: notion.so, linear.app, physicalintelligence.company
- City Light Capital Management Iii, LLC 3 shared companies: ever.green, ezraclimate.com, liftoff.xyz
- Bling Capital 2 shared companies: airtable.com, gusto.com
and 185 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Designer Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://designerfund.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, description, status, confidence
- https://designerfund.com/aboutstage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://apply.designerfund.com/cheque_size
- https://designerfund.com/teamfounded, people
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Record 746 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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