Moth Fund
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 3 people tracked
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Investment thesis
The firm invests in early-stage companies founded by exceptional individuals, emphasizing the ability to increase their agency and impact.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 17, 2026.
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What they invest in
from 31 of 49 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×17SaaS ×12Consumer ×10Deep Tech ×6Enterprise Software ×6Developer Tools ×5Hardware ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3
HQs:United States×17
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×122 founders×73 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 19 founders with education data
Harvard University ×4The Wharton School ×2University of Waterloo ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 23 founders with career history
Apple ×2Neuralink ×2SpaceX ×2Tesla ×2ThunderCore ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 20 with degree data)
Investments · 49 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Hardware company by Raffi Hotter & Marley Xiong
This is the personal website of Alex Gajewski, a cofounder of Pantograph, an independent research lab building general-purpose robots; it shares his background and essays on robotics, compute markets, and deep learning.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Alex Gajewski(Cofounder, Pantograph)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
AlterEgo builds a non-invasive, wearable neural interface that uses "Silent Sense" technology to let users communicate with AI through silent, intentional speech without typing, tapping, or speaking aloud.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardware
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Armstrong develops general-purpose robots designed for kitchen environments, beginning with dishwashing applications.
RoboticsSan Francisco, US
Axel Hansen(Founder)inJonah Varon(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAdvance Venture PartnersLerer HippeauBloomberg BetaNext Play Ventures
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Hardware company by Rohan Kotecha
daydream provides organic search and AI visibility services, combining a defined methodology with AI agents and dedicated experts.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shravan Rajinikanth(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)South Quad
Era is building an AI-native personal finance platform that consolidates a user's accounts, balances, transactions, and insights into a single view with automated actions.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintechSan Francisco, US
Jasper Lau(Founder)inLindsay B(Founder)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsDesigner FundMaC Venture CapitalProtagonist
Personal website and blog of Evan Conrad, featuring essays on software, product positioning, business, mental health, and philosophy.
Mt Tam, US
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Hivemind is a social AI that conducts one-on-one conversations with many people simultaneously to aggregate what people collectively think about a given topic.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSocialSan Francisco, US
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsFirst Round Capital
General Control is developing programmable, multiplexed epigenetic editing therapies designed to control the expression of several genes at once.
BiotechDeep TechLongevity
Lada Nuzhna(CEO & Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsage1Angel Collective Opportunity FundGoAhead VenturesStreamlined Ventures
Hubble offers a platform for testing live web applications and websites with real users, capturing video feedback, screen recordings, and behavioral insights to inform product decisions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaS
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Infinite Machine designs and sells electric personal mobility vehicles (branded as "non-cars"), with a showroom in New York City offering test rides.
ConsumerHardwareMobility & TransportationLong Island City, US
Joseph Cohen(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundNecessary Ventures
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Julius is an AI platform that enables users to build models, create websites, and generate content across multiple formats including Excel, videos, and images.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Rahul Sonwalkar(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsHawk Hill VenturesHorizonKarman VenturesSnowflake VenturesY CombinatorLearnLaunch
Future of Work company by Luke Igel & Wesley Block
Kino is a collaborative video editing platform that enables real-time editing with AI-assisted content assembly and search capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSan Francisco, US
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsY Combinator
Kraum sells cosmetic brushes including specialty micro brushes handmade in Japan for precision makeup application.
ConsumerDirect to Consumer
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Magic Circle is a venture-backed mobile game studio building cooperative, social games designed to help people bond and express themselves through play.
ConsumerGamingSocial
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsGeneral Catalyst
Masava is a platform for wine and spirits distributors that manages orders, inventory, pricing, and payments in one system of record.
Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)Recall Capital
MoldCo is a healthcare technology platform that connects patients with mold-trained providers to diagnose and treat mold illness through virtual care, specialized protocols, and home testing available across the United States.
Digital HealthHealthtech
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCantos VenturesCollaborative FundHarpoon VenturesStarship VenturesSoGal Ventures
New Computer built Dot, an AI personal companion app designed to understand and assist individual users.
AI & Machine LearningConsumer
SamJason
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsScript Capital
Nuha makes Teddy, a plush companion toy with an embedded conversational AI that listens, talks, and remembers interactions over time.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerHardware
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Hardware company by Nico Ramirez
Patina Systems builds Angles, an AI-powered photos app for consumers that offers natural-language photo search, similar-content browsing, and auto-updating albums, with an on-device ML stack for speed and privacy.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerNew York, US
Tyler Angertin
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAir Street CapitalHaystack
Consumer SaaS company by Taylor Rogalski & Zach Gotsch
Pomp is a retail platform for estheticians, med spas, and aesthetic professionals to offer clients home skincare through a branded storefront with no inventory, providing access to 55+ professional skincare brands, custom routine building, backbar ordering, loyalty rewards, and commission-based income.
E-commerceSaaSWellness & FitnessDenver, US
Shannon Erley(Founder & CEO)inNicole Cox(Co-Founder & COO)inGabriella Cambanis(Director)
BoardPatrick Gill(Director)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsFirstMile VenturesKickstartService Provider Capital
Raindrop provides observability and monitoring for AI agents, capturing traces of production runs including messages, tool calls, retries, and errors.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Zubin Koticha(CEO, Cofounder)inAlexis Gauba(Founder)inBen Hylak(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsScribble VenturesY CombinatorLightspeed Venture Partners
Rectangle provides a single API that unifies shipment data — including tracking, shipment, and customs data — across a company's transportation network.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsLogistics & Supply Chain
Matt Salefski(Co-founder & CEO)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAiSprouts VC
Regroup Nation is a personal-development resource offering a book, podcast and guidance on overcoming setbacks and staying motivated.
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAvant Global LLCCollaborative FundMercuri.vcUnion Square Ventures (USV)Yes VCBetaworks+2 more
Resonate is an open-source (Apache 2.0) implementation of the Distributed Async Await / durable execution protocol, letting developers write ordinary async functions that run reliably with retries, timeouts, and crash recovery handled automatically.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsPebblebedGreycroft PartnersInovia Capital
Retainit lets users test what they retained from educational YouTube videos by picking a creator (such as 3Blue1Brown, fern, or Veritasium) and playing quizzes tied to that content.
ConsumerCreator EconomyEdTech
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Rime builds ultra-realistic voice AI models trained on a proprietary in-studio dataset of spontaneous, multilingual conversational speech, designed for enterprise communication use cases.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Lily Clifford(Co-founder)inBrooke Larson(Co-founder)in
BoardAres Geovanos(Co-founder)John Vrionis(Director)inMorgan Blumberg(Director)inSandhya Hedge(Director)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsUnusual VenturesCorazon CapitalM13M13 VenturesSEEDRA VenturesTwilio Ventures
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Science Corporation develops brain-computer interface and neural engineering technology to restore vision, cognition, and mobility to patients with debilitating conditions.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechDigital HealthMedical DevicesAlameda, US
Max Hodak(Chief Executive Officer)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsage1Artis VenturesAvalanche VCBeyond CapitalConversion CapitalDuke Capital Partners+8 more
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsButterfly VenturesCalm/Storm VCDigerati InvestmentsLeonis CapitalPhaze VenturesXYZ Venture Capital
San Francisco Compute sells time on large-scale GPU clusters through contracts that customers can exit by reselling capacity on its liquid market.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalAngel Collective Opportunity FundCaladanDeep AcreElectric CapitalPredictive VC+3 more
Steinmetz designs and manufactures high-voltage motor controllers and traction inverters for electric vehicles, industrial automation, and robotics.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US
Owen Brake(Founder)inEthan Childerhose(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsVocal VenturesY Combinator468 CapitalZeno Ventures
Superset is an AI-powered gym and fitness management platform that handles bookings, scheduling, workout and wellness programming, payments, and client management, with AI coaching, engagement monitoring, and wearable integrations.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSports Tech
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Temelio is a grants management and intelligence platform for foundations, universities, and other grantmakers, covering the full process from applications and approvals to a grantee CRM and impact reporting.
Enterprise SoftwareImpact & Social GoodSaaSNew York, US
Maya Kuppermann(Executive Officer, Director)inRuthwick Pathireddy(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardRyan Russell(Director)
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Patina Systems builds "spontaneous software" — everyday tools that users can customize and share on demand.
ConsumerDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Tyler Angert(Founder & CEO)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Winden provides business banking for companies, including a Visa credit card with 2% cash back, virtual cards, business accounts, invoicing, and payments.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSLos Angeles, US
Daniel Sathyanesan(Founder)in
PartnerMolly Mielke· solo GP
Co-investorsAccel
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesRime · x.com · Aug 8, 2026
SF Compute · datacenterdynamics.com · Jul 27, 2026
Steinmetz · investing.com · Jul 16, 2026
Raindrop · wsj.com · Dec 1, 2025
Moldco · hitconsultant.net · Sep 19, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Moth Fund made?
- Moth Fund has 49 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Moth Fund invest at?
- Moth Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Moth Fund focus on?
- Moth Fund focuses on Biotech, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Fintech, Future of Work, Gaming, Hardware, Healthtech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Moth Fund located?
- Moth Fund is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Moth Fund co-invest with?
- Moth Fund most often shares deals with Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Y Combinator, Pebblebed, among 62 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamHow does Moth Fund Founding Partner Molly Mielke find exceptional individuals early using grants?
Paige Finn Doherty // Seed to Harvest · Molly Mielke
What was Moth Fund Founding Partner Molly Mielke’s process of applying for a grant like?
Paige Finn Doherty // Seed to Harvest · Molly Mielke
What are some of the most compelling trends Moth Fund Founding Partner Molly Mielke has seen?
Paige Finn Doherty · Molly Mielke
How did Moth Fund Founding Partner Molly Mielke overcome imposter syndrome?
Paige Finn Doherty // Seed to Harvest · Molly Mielke
What does Moth Fund Founding Partner Molly Mielke believe about the beauty of constraints?
Paige Finn Doherty // Seed to Harvest · Molly Mielke
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Paige Finn Doherty // Seed to Harvest · Molly Mielke
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