Companies | First Round
Companies backed by First Round, a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.”
We invest in companies long before anyone knows their name. (Often before they even have one.) Notion Imagine if documents worked more like software. FoundersIvan Zhao, Simon Last, Akshay Kothari Initial PartnershipSeed CategoriesEnterprise / AI / Consumer PartnerJosh Kopelman LocationSF Bay Area Read the story Clay Imagine if go-to-market tools were as malleable as clay. FoundersKareem Amin, Nicolae Rusan, Varun Anand Initial PartnershipSeed CategoriesEnterprise / AI PartnerBrett Berson LocationNew York Read the story Pomelo Imagine if we could build a continuous layer of…
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