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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 seed, 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 – Seed
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.

Most shared portfolio companies with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 166 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.

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 2026-10-21 · confidence high

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