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Designer Fund
San Francisco, United States
Invests $100K‑$1M in early‑stage tech startups that are design leaders, leveraging a community of designers from top companies.
Portfolio
77+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $63.5M
Investment focus
Stages
No stages listed
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
United States
Fund details
Funds
Fund II
Vintage 2019 • $23.5M
Fund III
Vintage 2022 • $40.0M
Check sizes
Min: $100.0K
Typical: $500.0K
Max: $1.0M
Sources
Designer Fund
Invests $100K‑$1M in early‑stage tech startups that are design leaders, leveraging a community of designers from top companies.
Portfolio
77+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $63.5M
Funds
Fund II · Vintage 2019 • $23.5M
Fund III · Vintage 2022 • $40.0M
Check Sizes
Min: $100.0K
Typical: $500.0K
Max: $1.0M
Stages
No stages listed
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
United States
Sources
Showing 24 of 66 matched portfolio companies
Adora offers an AI-powered platform that automatically maps user journeys and captures behavioral data across applications. It provides product teams with complete visibility into user interactions, enabling them to identify friction points and optimize the user experience through integrated session replays and visual analytics.
Air is a visual workspace that centralizes the collection, approval, and sharing of creative assets, streamlining the creative operations process for teams. By replacing traditional cloud storage solutions, it eliminates the inefficiencies of file management and feedback loops, saving users significant time and improving collaboration.
Funding: $69.2M
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Funding: $69.2M
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Ambrook provides specialized accounting software that integrates banking, bookkeeping, and business insights for family-run businesses across various industries like agriculture, construction, and trucking. The platform automates transaction posting, receipt scanning via AI, and bill pay to streamline financial management. It offers enterprise-level tracking to analyze profitability by unit or location, aiding in better decision-making and securing financing.
Funding: $17.9M
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Funding: $17.9M
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AtoB provides a fuel card system that integrates telematics to monitor fuel transactions and vehicle locations, ensuring purchases are authorized and within set limits. This technology helps fleets reduce fuel costs by an average of 10% while preventing fraud and streamlining financial management.
Funding: $253.5M
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Funding: $253.5M
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August Health provides an AI-enabled, integrated platform specifically designed for senior living communities to manage care and operations. The system includes an easy-to-use EHR, eMAR, and mobile-first care tracking to shift staff from reactive tactics to proactive care strategies. This unified platform delivers real-time visibility and predictive analytics to improve clinical outcomes, documentation efficiency, and financial performance.
Funding: $17.6M
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Funding: $17.6M
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Beaming Health connects families with in-home and in-office speech-language pathology and occupational therapy services across California. The platform facilitates insurance coverage verification to simplify access to necessary pediatric therapeutic care. They support providers in establishing and scaling private practices by managing administrative overhead.
Funding: $4.2M
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NextGen Venture Partners
NextGen Venture Partners
Funding: $4.2M
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Bezi is an AI‑powered, project‑aware assistant that integrates directly into the Unity editor, continuously indexing scripts, assets, scenes, packages, and related documentation to provide context‑aware code generation, debugging, and automation. It helps developers prototype features, trace visual and logical bugs, and automate repetitive workflows while ensuring changes follow team conventions and can be reviewed or reverted safely.
Funding: $13.0M
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+ 8 Other investorsBenchmark
+ 8 Other investorsBenchmark
Funding: $13.0M
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Bitrig generates production-ready Swift and SwiftUI code based on natural language descriptions of desired app features. This platform allows users to iterate quickly by updating the codebase instantly through conversational commands within an integrated simulator environment. It accelerates the development lifecycle from initial concept to a shippable iOS application.
brand.ai provides domain-specific AI tools designed for brand builders, agencies, and Fortune 500 companies to enhance brand management and marketing strategies. The platform streamlines brand asset creation and optimization, enabling users to maintain brand consistency and improve engagement across multiple channels.
Funding: $5.2M
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Funding: $5.2M
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Capitol converts expert judgment and proprietary data into traceable, auditable outputs for regulated, high-stakes enterprise decision-making. This agentic AI platform creates custom reports and briefs by synthesizing internal and external data sources within the client's existing perimeter. It ensures data sovereignty and provides controlled content workflows for organizations where accuracy and governance are paramount.
Funding: $500.0K
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Funding: $500.0K
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Commure develops an AI-powered operating system for healthcare that automates clinical documentation, revenue cycle management, and patient workflows through advanced machine learning and integrated sensor technology. This platform addresses inefficiencies in administrative processes, enabling healthcare providers to enhance patient care while reducing time spent on documentation and billing tasks.
Funding: $1.0M
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Funding: $1.0M
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This company manufactures battery-equipped induction ranges designed for easy installation. Their appliances utilize internal storage to provide high-power cooking capabilities while plugging into standard 120-volt outlets, eliminating the need for complex electrical upgrades. This solution offers precise, clean cooking technology accessible without significant infrastructure changes.
Funding: $28.0M
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Prelude Ventures
Prelude Ventures
Funding: $28.0M
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Dupe.com offers an AI-driven visual search platform that identifies visually similar furniture and fashion items across online retailers. By entering a product URL or uploading an image, users can discover comparable alternatives at lower prices.
Era is an AI‑native personal finance platform that aggregates users' bank accounts into a unified context accessible by any MCP‑compatible assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT. Through natural‑language prompts, users can query balances, spending, and portfolio health, and the system can execute transfers, rule‑based automations, or investment actions, while the Agency app proactively monitors accounts and triggers moves before the user opens the app.
Funding: $11.0M
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+ 4 Other investorsProtagonistThird Kind Venture Capital
+ 4 Other investorsProtagonistThird Kind Venture Capital
Funding: $11.0M
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Euclid Power develops a project management platform specifically for renewable energy investments, enabling users to manage documents, details, and stakeholders in one centralized system. The platform addresses inefficiencies in project execution, reducing the risk of cancellations and minimizing sunk costs associated with delays in the approval process.
Funding: $5.2M
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Spero Ventures
Spero Ventures
Funding: $5.2M
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This company provides High-Impact Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) verified for additionality, ensuring buyer investments directly fund new clean energy projects. They offer comprehensive REC management, including due diligence, retirement, and detailed reporting aligned with GHG Protocol and SBTi standards. Additionally, they facilitate the procurement of clean energy tax credits through simplified contracts and project fractionalization.
Funding: $6.1M
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Funding: $6.1M
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This company provides tailored financing programs for climate-focused businesses, enabling them to access capital for specific projects and initiatives. Their platform aims to accelerate the deployment of climate finance by connecting investors with impactful ventures.
Funding: $7.6M
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Funding: $7.6M
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Fearn provides an AI-powered platform for drafting and managing patent applications, serving software, hardware, deeptech, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies. The service uses custom neurosymbolic architectures to generate hallucination-resistant patent claims and compliant figures from technical inputs like codebases or preprints. It also connects innovators with vetted patent attorneys and agents for verification and filing through a unified dashboard for portfolio tracking.
Felt provides a cloud‑native GIS platform that lets users upload, visualize, and analyze spatial data without data wrangling. The platform offers web GIS, dashboards, app development tools, and AI‑assisted spatial engineering, integrating directly with cloud data sources such as Postgres, Snowflake, and BigQuery. Felt monetizes through subscription plans that grant access to its mapping, analytics, and collaboration features, with tiered pricing for enterprise security and extended capabilities.
Funding: $19.5M
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Funding: $19.5M
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Flatfile provides a data onboarding platform that utilizes a JavaScript snippet to import, map, and normalize customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. This technology reduces the time and cost associated with manual data cleanup, ensuring high-quality, validated data for seamless integration into business systems.
Funding: $94.5M
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Tiger Global Management
Tiger Global Management
Funding: $94.5M
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Folio provides an integrated procure‑to‑pay platform for hotels, combining ordering, inventory tracking, AI‑driven invoice processing, and secure supplier payments in a single web interface. Hotels use the system to connect approved vendors, automate approvals, and sync data with their ERP, reducing manual effort and accelerating cash flow. The service is sold on a subscription basis, with optional transaction fees for payment processing and rebates on eligible spend.
Funding: $14.0M
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Construct CapitalThrive Capital
Construct CapitalThrive Capital
Funding: $14.0M
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Forma is a benefits platform that enables employers to create customizable Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) for their employees, allowing them to select health and wellness options that suit their individual needs. This approach addresses the complexity of traditional benefits programs by streamlining administration and enhancing employee satisfaction, resulting in an 85% annual utilization rate of offered benefits.
Funding: $57.6M
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Ribbit Capital
Ribbit Capital
Funding: $57.6M
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Framer provides a website building platform that utilizes a free-form canvas, responsive design tools, and a built-in content management system to enable users to create and publish interactive websites quickly. The platform addresses the challenge of slow website development by offering an intuitive interface that allows for real-time collaboration and one-click publishing, ensuring sites are SEO optimized from launch.
Groove offers a personalized health coaching service that combines at-home exercise routines with daily support from trained health experts to enhance strength, mobility, and balance in adults. This service specifically targets age-related physical decline, helping users reduce pain and improve overall functional fitness through tailored programming and regular progress evaluations.
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