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Founders Network

Venture capital

San 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.

HQ
San Francisco, US
Founded
2022
Last 12 months
4 investments
Tracked investments
27

Team · 1 people

from public directories
Kevin Holmes· General Partnerin

Founder 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 companies

AI & 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 companies
38%
solo founders
5 of 13 mapped founding teams
24%
repeat founders
of 17 founders with career history

Founding 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

Y Combinator ×4

Investments · 27 tracked

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By year:2026 · 32025 · 32024 · 17 dated

Abode Labsabodelabs.ai

Abode Labs provides AI infrastructure for the real estate industry.

AI & Machine LearningPropTech

Co-investorsAntlerAntler Australia

Avela Healthavelahealth.com

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

Baukunstbaukunst.coSep 2026 · $3.5M

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

Briefbriefhq.aiin𝕏

Brief is a platform that integrates with Slack, Linear, Notion, and GitHub to automatically capture product decisions and structure context, building a product graph that keeps teams aligned.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Co-investorsCharacter

Cardamoncardamon.aiinSeed

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

Catchousecatchouse.com

Catchouse connects users with local experts who live and work in a given area to share area-specific knowledge.

ConsumerMarketplaces

Dragonscaledragonscale.ai

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

Fambotfambot.comSep 2026 · $3.5M

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

Fathomfathom.aiin𝕏Seed

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

Foliofolio.cc

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

Foundersnetworkfoundersnetwork.com

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

Intelligenicintelligenic.ai

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

Knapsackknapsack.cloudin𝕏

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

Laderaladera.ai

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

Mastramastra.aiin𝕏Seed · Oct 2025

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

Mimotomimoto.ai

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

Oysterdataoysterdata.com

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)

Parenparen.app

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)

PiLogicpilogic.aiApr 2025

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

Quantstructquantstruct.comin𝕏Seed

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

Renumeraterenumerate.comJan 2025

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

RevShopprevshopp.comin

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

Scalestackscalestack.aiin𝕏Apr 2026 · $1M

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)

BoardJay Zhao(Director)in

Co-investorsCriteria Venture TechFirst Degree CapitalFlyer One VenturesGeek VenturesLeonis CapitalRipple Ventures+3 more

Selliblesellible.aiin

Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)

Shovelsshovels.aiin𝕏Dec 2024

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

Skillfulskillful.lyin

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

WireUpwireup.com

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

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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

featuring the team

Kevin Holmes: Founder & CEO, Founders Network (Founder World 2015)

Google for Developers · Kevin Holmes

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