Founders Network
Venture capitalSan Francisco · 1 people tracked
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Fund manager profile
Founders Network is a venture fund manager based in San Francisco. SEC filings show 1 venture fund on record, most recently Founders Network Fund, LP filed February 2023.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
Team · 1 people
from public directoriesFounder mafia
4 people who came through Founders Network went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 25 of 27 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×19SaaS ×11Enterprise Software ×9Developer Tools ×5Data & Infrastructure ×3Future of Work ×3PropTech ×3Consumer ×2
HQs:United States×9United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×53 founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with education data
MIT Sloan School of Management ×3Stanford University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×7Business & Management ×4Economics ×2Engineering ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 17 founders with career history
Netlify ×3Basalt Inc ×2Moveworks ×2Phase2 ×2Revolut ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 27 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 32024 · 17 dated
Abode Labs provides AI infrastructure for the real estate industry.
AI & Machine LearningPropTech
Co-investorsAntlerAntler Australia
Avela Health provides virtual autism evaluations and therapy for children, teens, young adults, and their families, with services delivered by Master's or doctoral-level clinicians via video.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Co-investorsGingerbread CapitalMontage VenturesThe Artemis FundRethink Education
Baukunst is an independent venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies developing technology and design solutions across sectors including manufacturing, AI, healthcare, and consumer products.
Sector Agnostic
Axel Bichara(Founder)in
Co-investorsWesterly WindsCorrelation VenturesKarman VenturesNextView Ventures
Cardamon provides regulatory compliance software for compliance and legal professionals.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLegalTechSaaSLondon, GB
Areg Nzsdejan(CEO)inDmytro Astakhov(Founder)inDmytro Astakhov(CTO)in
Co-investorsDniproMaiora Rebel VenturesY CombinatorAliaksandr HudzilinAndreessen HorowitzB conseil+3 more
Catchouse connects users with local experts who live and work in a given area to share area-specific knowledge.
ConsumerMarketplaces
Dragonscale is an anticipatory business operating system that simulates thousands of scenarios to build contingency plans and automatically trigger pre-validated responses when market or operational conditions change.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Fambot connects to a parent's Gmail and Google Calendar to automatically extract school-related tasks, dates, and details from family communications, delivering a daily text digest of what to do, what to bring, and what's coming up.
AI & Machine LearningConsumer
David Reich(Founder)in
Co-investorsBaukunstNextView VenturesCorrelation VenturesKarman Ventures
Fathom provides AI-powered meeting intelligence that automatically captures notes, summaries, and transcripts while surfacing decisions and action items across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Richard White(Founder)inLumen Sivitz(Head of Talent)Ryan Hoskin(Head of Success)James Peterson(Product Analytics)Shaun Dunning(Principal Software Engineer)Casey Corcoran(Senior UX Engineer)
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesEarl Grey CapitalImmeasurableMaven VenturesRackhouse Venture Management LpSoma Capital+19 more
Folio offers a platform that converts paper notes, printouts, and ad-hoc instructions into digital workflows using built-in AI agents, letting managers create operational processes and deploy them to frontline teams.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Founders Network is a global membership community that provides peer mentorship, webinars, chapter events, investor introductions, and partner discounts to tech startup founders.
Future of WorkSaaS
Intelligenic offers an AI product development platform that automates the software development lifecycle by generating discovery context and specifications to produce production-ready code.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Knapsack is a platform that centralizes design assets and code for design system teams, enabling designers, engineers, and product managers to collaborate on building and maintaining design systems at scale.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPortland, US
Evan D. Lovely(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inChris Strahl(Founder)inEvan Lovely(Founder)
BoardPhil Boyer(Director)inMike Rosengarten(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAscend Venture CapitalCrosslink CapitalData TechEPIC VENTURESFiDi Ventures+9 more
Ladera is an AI analyst platform for hospitality and hotel teams that connects fragmented property systems — PMS, RMS, POS, CRM, channel managers, and ad platforms — into a unified view.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sam Bhagwat(CEO)inAbhi Aiyer(CTO)inShane Thomas(Founder)inMargarita Sandomirskaya(Talent Lead)
Co-investorsY CombinatorSpark CapitalBroom VenturesGradient VenturesLombardstreet VenturesMoonfire Ventures+21 more
Mimoto develops AI technology to address organizational internal security gaps.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Kris Bondi(CEO/Cofounder)inDavid Charboneau(CTO/Cofounder)in
Co-investors2045 VenturesChispa VCcoreteq venturesGraham Walker Venture
Oyster provides an asset intelligence layer that ingests and structures fragmented asset data from existing systems, spreadsheets, inspection reports, and work orders to support CapEx forecasting, maintenance strategy, and compliance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructurePropTech
Joe Stockton(Co-Founder, CEO)Leah Sakas(Co-Founder, CPO)Albert Kwok(Co-Founder, CTO)Tucker McDermott(Chief Growth Officer)
Paren aggregates and standardizes real-time data on EV fast charging—covering utilization, session behavior, reliability, amenities, pricing, and safety—and delivers it via API, flat files, or an online portal.
CleantechData & InfrastructureMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US
Florent Breton(Founder)
PiLogic builds domain-specific probabilistic AI models for critical dual-use aerospace and defense applications such as electrical diagnostics, radar analysis, and sensor fusion.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechLos Angeles, US
Geoff Bough(Founder & CRO)inJohannes Waldstein(Founder & CEO)
BoardMark Chavira(Founder & CTO)Bradley C Harrison(Director)in
Co-investorsScout VenturesSeraphim SpaceFlex Capital PartnersScout VenturesSovereigns Capital Venture
Quantstruct automates software documentation creation and maintenance by integrating with development tools, codebase events, and support channels to generate and update technical documentation.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sarthak Srinivas(CEO)inNewman Hu(CTO)in
Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorCalm VenturesEight Capital
Renumerate built a Subscription Relationship Manager (SRM) focused on the post-sale customer relationship, using AI-powered surveys, personalized retention offers at churn intent, and automated campaigns to reduce subscription churn.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
David Salinger(Executive Officer, Director)Timothy Marks(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJonathan Bensamoun(Director)Matthew Vine(Director)in
Co-investorsRRE Ventures
RevShopp offers Shape Intelligence, an AI tool that personalizes and curates fashion product recommendations for online shoppers based on body shape rather than size alone.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail Tech
Amy Wister(CEO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrada Ventures
Scalestack is an AI-driven platform that connects a company's go-to-market stack—CRM, data enrichment, and marketing automation tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, ZoomInfo, and Apollo—so data syncs cleanly and workflows run automatically.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechMiami, US
Aurelio Narciso(Executive Officer, Director)Elio Narciso(Founder)inAlessandro Solomon Alter(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsCriteria Venture TechFirst Degree CapitalFlyer One VenturesGeek VenturesLeonis CapitalRipple Ventures+3 more
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Shovels provides a building permit and contractor data platform that uses AI to turn fragmented U.S. permit records into structured, searchable intelligence covering 164M+ permits across 2,450+ jurisdictions.
Construction TechData & InfrastructurePropTechLafayette, US
Ryan Buckley(Founder)inLuka Kacil(Founder)
Co-investorsCool Climate CollectiveMana VenturesMission One CapitalStepchangeVirta VenturesBase10 Partners+1 more
Skillfully provides verified skills data for workforce decisions through performance-based work simulations rather than proxy measures.
Enterprise SoftwareHR Tech
Co-investorsBetter Ventures Central LlcHelium-3 VenturesSVQuad
WireUp is building an execution layer for agentic finance, where AI agents carry out tasks across a user's banking, investing, and digital assets within user-defined guardrails.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Baukunst · techcompanynews.com · Sep 8, 2026

Fambot · finance.yahoo.com · Sep 1, 2026
Mastra · mastra.ai · Apr 9, 2026
Knapsack · finance.yahoo.com · Oct 9, 2025
Shovels · shovels.ai · Jun 10, 2025
PiLogic · finsmes.com · May 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Founders Network made?
- Founders Network has 27 tracked investments, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
- Where is Founders Network located?
- Founders Network is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Founders Network co-invest with?
- Founders Network most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Mana Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, among 62 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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