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First Round Capital

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First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. They provide hands-on support to founders and have a portfolio including companies like Notion, Square, and Roblox.

First Round Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in AI, consumer, DevTools & Infra and enterprise. Its stated cheque size is Our average initial investment is $3.5 million, but we’ve invested in rounds as small as $100,000 and as large as $20 million..

“Above all, we look for compelling and contrarian insight into how the world works.”

— First Round Capital, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Pre-seed – Series A
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Invests in
US
Sectors
AI, Consumer, DevTools & Infra, Enterprise, Fintech, Hardware, Healthcare
Cheque size
Our average initial investment is $3.5 million, but we’ve invested in rounds as small as $100,000 and as large as $20 million.

Team, as First Round Capital publishes it

  • Josh Kopelman Partner
  • Todd Jackson Partner
  • Brett Berson Partner
  • Bill Trenchard Partner
  • Liz Wessel Partner
  • Hayley Barna Partner
  • Simon Zhou Investor
  • Nyle Sykes Investor
  • Maggie Basta Investor
  • Nick Rubin Investor
  • Chris Fralic Board Partner
  • Rob Hayes Board Partner

Names and roles exactly as listed on firstround.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. 166 co-investors found.

and 156 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page First Round Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 1315 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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