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Abstraction Capital
Venture capitalKansas City · Pre-Seed–Seed · 1 people tracked
Also known as ABSTRACTION CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
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Investment thesis
Abstraction Capital backs technical founders building tools for developers, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. Its investment sweet spot is companies whose products free up developers to concentrate on value-add work. The firm's core beliefs hold that all companies are ultimately software companies, that developer time is precious, that the technology stack matters and there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and that bottoms-up, product-led adoption is key to winning over technical users. The thesis grew out of research into cloud infrastructure and the unbundling of large platforms like AWS, alongside the view that the barriers to shipping software have fallen while the depth of expertise needed to build high-performing software has risen.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 1 people
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What they invest in
from 37 of 46 portfolio companiesDeveloper Tools ×25AI & Machine Learning ×22SaaS ×19Enterprise Software ×16Data & Infrastructure ×8Cloud Computing ×7Fintech ×4Cybersecurity ×2
HQs:United States×19United Kingdom×3Croatia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 25 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×63 founders×84+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 32 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×3Dartmouth College ×2The Ohio State University ×2UCLA ×2University of Pennsylvania ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 29 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×12Engineering ×4Business & Management ×3Economics ×3Humanities ×3Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 35 founders with career history
Uber ×5Google ×4GitHub ×3Modal ×3A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research ×2Drifting In Space ×2Heap ×2IBM ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 33 with degree data)
Investments · 46 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 22022 · 22021 · 510 dated
Cased uses AI to automate cloud infrastructure management, letting developers describe what they want to deploy and where while the tool handles tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Garrett Bjerkhoel(Director, Promoter)inBen Bleikamp(Director, Promoter)inBryan Byrne(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsSancus VenturesFounders FundAscend Venture Capital
Rebulk provides software and computer vision technology to track and manage bulk material inventory across industries like agriculture, recycling, and logistics.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSOlathe, US
Warren Wijaya Wang(CEO)inCole Robertson(CTO)inWarren Wang(Founder)inJordan Mryyan
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsKCRise FundRedbud VCY CombinatorFCVCFlyover CapitalBlast.Club+5 more
Argilla develops open-source, data-centric software for building and improving AI and NLP models, with a focus on human feedback and data quality.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsCarpesa, Valencia
Francisco de Asis Aranda Montes(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Vila Suero(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inDaniel Vila(CEO)inPaco Aranda(CTO)inJames Alcorn(Director)inPaco Nathan(Director)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsCriteria Venture TechEniac VenturesSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Vermilion Cliffs VenturesZetta Venture Partners
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsBeat VenturesBMW i VenturesSpacecadet VenturesStage 2 Capital
Axiom is a decentralized finance platform where users can trade memecoins and perpetual contracts while generating yield on their holdings.
Crypto & Web3FintechSan Francisco, US
Henry Zhang(CEO)inPreston Ellis(CTO)inCarina Hong(Founder)Gord Allott(Founder)Jonathan Wang(Founder)Neil Jagdish Patel(Founder)
Co-investorsY CombinatorCrane Venture PartnersFly VenturesFrontline VenturesHemisphere Ventures LLCKakao Ventures+4 more
Axiom.ai provides a no-code tool that records and replays browser interactions to automate repetitive tasks, allowing non-technical users to program routine workflows by example rather than code.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB
Yaseer Sheriff(Founder)inSimon Williams(Founder)inAlex Barlow(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investors7percent VenturesJude GomilaSRV FND 2TechstarsY CombinatorAltaclub VC+4 more
Buddy provides a digital commerce platform for insurance that converts product rules, pricing, and workflows into structured data and deploys them as modern buying experiences across multiple channels.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSaaS
Charles Merritt(Co-Founder, CEO)inDavid Vogeleer(Co-Founder, CTO)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsNewlin VenturesDigitalis Ventures
Buf Schema Registry is a package management and registry platform for Protobuf APIs that enables teams to publish, version, and consume API schemas with auto-generated SDKs, documentation, and governance policies.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsGarage CapitalLux CapitalAdditionGreenoaksHaystackLightspeed Venture Partners+1 more
CatalyzeX runs a search platform that helps developers find machine learning techniques and their code implementations.
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesVibe CapitalAVVBasecamp FundBinh TranDarling Ventures+4 more
CopilotKit provides an open-source framework and protocol (AG-UI) for developers to build and embed AI agents with rich, interactive user interfaces directly into applications, including web, Slack, and Teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSIssaquah, US
Atai Barkai(Founder)inUli Barkai(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investors97212 VenturesDeep Acrefresh.fundGlilot Capital PartnersGurtin VenturesPID Fund I, a series of DV Collective, LP+3 more
Cloud infrastructure for machine learning at scale (acquired by Databricks)
Soroush Ghodsi Boushehri(Cofounder)Stefan Stokic(Cofounder)Jake Sylvestre(Cofounder)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Digma is a code analysis and observability tool for developers, now part of the JetBrains AI Platform.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSunnyvale, US
Nir Shafrir(Chief Executive Officer)inRoni Dover(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsat.inc/Hetz VenturesInner Loop CapitalSorenson Ventures
Dreamlit is an AI-powered email platform that connects to a company's live database to build and publish transactional, lifecycle, and marketing email workflows described in natural language.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Andrew Kim(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Rebulk is a platform for bulk-materials terminal and transport operations that captures billable events — railcars, trucks, transfers, scale tickets, BOLs, inventory movements, demurrage — onto a single record to support invoicing and inventory visibility.
Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Cole Robertson(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsFlyover CapitalRedbud VC
Freshpaint provides a platform for healthcare marketers to securely connect and activate customer data across marketing channels while maintaining privacy compliance.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Steven Fitzsimmons(Founder)inMichael Malis(Founder)inRay Mina(Chief Executive Officer)inTom Spiegelman(Chief Product & Technology Officer)inPeter Evans(Head of Engineering)Gil Cayabyab(Head of Customer Success)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsBT Growth CapitalIntel CapitalPioneerSignalFireSunflower Capital Management FundThreshold Ventures+12 more
Hoss provides a platform for API companies to manage documentation, monitor API usage, and offer customizable developer dashboards to their customers.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAustin, US
Cameron Cooper(Founder)inTrung Vu(Founder)inMatt Hawkins(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsFundersClubSoma CapitalY CombinatorGlobal Founders CapitalKleiner PerkinsLiquid Ventures+4 more
Jamsocket is a backend platform for building sync engines that power collaborative applications, offering products including Plane (an open-source orchestrator), Y-Sweet (a document store and realtime sync backend), and ForeverVM (stateful Python REPLs for AI code execution).
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Paul Butler(Founder)inTaylor Baldwin(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorGarage CapitalSoma CapitalVelocity FundWayfinder Ventures
Lekko built dynamic software configuration tools that let companies change application behavior in code without rebuilds or feature-flag issues, based on a system its team developed at Uber and Meta.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMountain View, US
Konrad Niemiec(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsAdditionBoxGroupLux CapitalSV Angel
Logarithm Labs provides data quality and usability solutions to help businesses run their operational workflows effectively using technology and expert services.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Puneet Jagralapudi(Founder)inAvishek Panigrahi(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Modal provides a cloud platform that lets developers define compute, hardware, and application logic in Python and deploy to the cloud, with fast-booting containers and autoscaling GPUs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Erik Bernhardsson(Founder)inAkshat Bubna(Founder)inSeth Zelnick(Executive Officer)inAaron Krane(Founder)in
BoardPatrick Chase(Director)inSarah Catanzaro(Director)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumAccel+22 more
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Model Prime provides a platform for ingesting, storing, and managing robotics log data, with native support for ROS log formats, MCAP files, and PX4 autopilot logs.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsRobotics
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsEniac Ventures
Calvin Cooper(Founder)inRob May(Founder)in
Co-investorsBantam GroupBetaworksEncoded VenturesMu VenturesEverywhere Ventures
Nozomio develops AI products focused on improving how systems understand and maintain context in machine learning applications.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsBoxGroupLocalGlobeTranspose Platform ManagementY Combinator20VCAndreessen Horowitz+14 more
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsSouth QuadZendaBasis Set VenturesValar Ventures LlcWinklevoss CapitalWork-Bench
Odynn is an AI-powered, modular white-label platform with APIs that lets fintechs, banks, card issuers, and travel companies launch embedded travel, loyalty, and rewards programs.
FintechSaaSTravel & HospitalityLakeville, US
Bruce Garner(Founder, COO & CFO)inJohn Taylor Garner(Founder & CEO)inAnuj Patel(Co-Founder & CTO)inYohan Mehary(Chief of Staff)in
BoardMike Mullen(Director)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesHilltop Venture PartnersFiat Ventures
Ops Companion builds AI systems that give organizations control over their data, infrastructure, and costs while reducing dependence on third-party platforms.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Eli Front(Founder)in
Co-investorsMissouri Technology CorporationCultivation Capital
Oxen.ai provides a platform for creating and managing digital assets, including videos and images, with integrated generative AI capabilities and model fine-tuning for visual style customization.
AI & Machine LearningCreator Economy
Greg Schoeninger(Founder)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsBeat VenturesPebblebedRackhouse Venture Management LpRitual CapitalUncork Capital
Pensar provides AI agents that continuously perform adversarial security testing on software systems, mapping a company's attack surface, chaining vulnerabilities across services, and shipping fixes for each finding.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder)inEiso Kant(Founder)Jason Warner Eiso Kant(Founder)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investors20VC7GC & CoAir Street CapitalB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital Ventures+29 more
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Prototyper is a canvas-based design and development tool where designers, engineers, and AI agents work on the same surface to turn designs directly into working code and shipped products.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Quiltt provides fintech infrastructure that connects builders to financial data aggregators and enrichment providers through a single integration.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Mark(Co-Founder & CCO)Ruben Izmailyan(Co-Founder, CEO)inZane Pickett(CTO)inMark Bechhofer(Co-Founder, CCO)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesEarly Light VenturesGranatus VenturesK Street CapitalNVP CapitalOvereasy Ventures+5 more
Shuttle is an open source cloud platform for developing and deploying web applications with Rust, replacing container technology with a lightweight alternative to achieve sub-second deploy times.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB
Nodar Daneliya(Founder)inChristos Hadjiaslanis(Founder)inDamien Broka(CTO)Jawwad Jahangir(Founder)Nodar Danelia(Founder)inReyasat Chowdhury(Founder)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsActivant CapitalHorizonY CombinatorCRV (Charles River Ventures)Global Founders CapitalIdentity.vc+1 more
Single Origin builds data infrastructure tooling that analyzes and optimizes queries and pipelines to reduce compute costs and improve engineering productivity for data teams.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Xiaodong Wang(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investors515 VenturesBasis Set VenturesWebb Investment Network
Soren is an AI services company that designs, deploys, and maintains custom AI systems built around specific business workflows for small and midsize organizations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsY CombinatorCRV (Charles River Ventures)Eight CapitalOrange DAOPeterson Venture PartnersSandwith Ventures, LLC+4 more
Swell is a headless commerce infrastructure platform that enables developers, agencies, and brands to build customized buying experiences with data control, flexibility, and scalability.
Developer ToolsE-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Eric Ingram(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsAligned Climate CapitalBonfire VenturesCommerce VenturesHeadlineThird Sphere
SWELL is a 360° creative agency and AI-native production studio in New York City that provides strategy, content production, post-production, and AI-enhanced workflows for fashion, beauty, luxury, and lifestyle brands.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US
Tarik Malak(Founder)inTarik Malak in New(Founder)
Co-investorsBixin VenturesGV (Google Ventures)Teamworthy Ventures
Unify provides AI agents that handle routine business tasks across communications, sales, operations, and engineering by executing pre-built workflows or custom automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSLondon, GB
Daniel Lenton(Hiring Manager)inDouglas Kitani(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Austin Hughes(Founder)Austin Hughes Connor Heggie(Founder)Connor Heggie(Founder)Daniel Lenton (Hiring)(Hiring Manager)
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalLunar Ventures+23 more
vlt operates JavaScript package registries that let teams publish scoped and private npm-compatible packages, manage organizations and access, and give developers and CI environments a consistent source for public and private dependencies.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsAccel
Wasp is a full-stack web framework that reduces boilerplate code and provides built-in structure for web application development.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareZagreb, HR
Matija Šošić(Founder)inMartin Sosic(Founder)in
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsbig_betsBrighter CapitalFifth Quarter VenturesMetis VenturesY Combinator468 Capital+6 more
Wasp is an open-source framework for building full-stack web applications, using a configuration file to handle boilerplate for features like authentication, database, and deployment.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsLunar Ventures468 CapitalAcequia Capital (AceCap)HV CapitalTokyo Black
Wilderness Labs provides IoT solutions and services to help organizations validate, prototype, and deploy connected devices at scale.
Developer ToolsHardwareIoT
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsApertu Capital
YearOne is an AI-powered software engineering intelligence platform that provides data-driven insights to help development teams improve productivity, reduce burnout, and mitigate project delivery risk.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHR TechPortland, US
PartnerTaylor Clauson· solo GP
Co-investorsLong Way VenturesPortland Seed FundTechstarsAccenture VenturesCascade Seed FundThe BFM Fund
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Buf TechnologiesParabeacQuilttTclauson
Exits · 3
3 acquisitions · showing 1Hossacq. by Niantic
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesOdynn · stocktitan.net · Aug 19, 2026
Modal · finsmes.com · May 22, 2026
Shuttle · techcrunch.com · Oct 22, 2025
Rebulk · ycombinator.com · Jul 17, 2025
Nozomio · ycombinator.com · Jul 15, 2025
Wasp · finsmes.com · Apr 21, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Abstraction Capital made?
- Abstraction Capital has 46 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Abstraction Capital invest at?
- Abstraction Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Abstraction Capital's typical check size?
- Abstraction Capital typically writes checks of $50K – $400K.
- What sectors does Abstraction Capital focus on?
- Abstraction Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Abstraction Capital located?
- Abstraction Capital is headquartered in Kansas City, US.
- Does Abstraction Capital lead rounds?
- Abstraction Capital typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Abstraction Capital co-invest with?
- Abstraction Capital most often shares deals with Y Combinator, SignalFire, Techstars, among 115 tracked co-investors.
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