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Venture capitalActively deployingSammamish · 2 people tracked
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Fund manager profile
TheFounderVC is a venture fund manager based in Sammamish. SEC filings show 1 venture fund on record, most recently TheFounderVC Fund I, LP ($5M offering) filed July 2026.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
Team · 2 people
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Shail Kaveti is a Founding Partner at TheFounderVC, where he invests in vertical AI companies at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on application-layer businesses that leverage proprietary workflow data as competitive advantages. Prior to venture capital, he held operational roles at Wayfair leading customer personalization and recommendations using transformer models, at Amazon as an early employee on Amazon Business, and in trading roles at Bank of America and Susquehanna International Group. He is also an angel investor and writes about defensibility and data flywheels on his Substack newsletter Vertical Signal.
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- Where is TheFounderVC located?
- TheFounderVC is headquartered in Sammamish, US.
Co-investors · 1
468 Capital is a technology investment firm with offices in Berlin and San Francisco that invests across multiple stages in software, AI, and internet companies. The firm focuses on thesis-driven investments in businesses with experienced founding teams.
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