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First Round stages, portfolio and investment profile
San Francisco-headquartered seed pioneer founded in 2004, backing founders from pre-seed through Series A with a community platform and 560+ portfolio companies including early bets on Uber, Roblox, Notion, and Square.
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Stage-based planning range
$250K–$3M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sector focus
generalist-tech
Geography
San Francisco, CA
Founded 2004
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
29
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
Not recorded
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Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: 2025-09-28T14:39:14.325Z. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list First Round as an investor (24 total).
- AltSchool Personalized K-8 micro-school network and edtech platform (later Altitude Learning).
- Aradigm Benefits platform enabling sustainable employer access to cell and gene therapies.
- Arda Therapeutics Targeted cell-depletion therapies for chronic diseases using oncology modalities outside cancer.
- Clipboard Web clipping and social bookmarking service for saving rich web snippets (Clipboard.com).
- Crossbeam Partner ecosystem platform for secure account mapping and B2B co-selling.
- Eisen AI-enabled compliance ops infrastructure for escheatment, disbursement, and 1099 reporting.
- Kno Digital textbook and study platform — acquired by Intel in 2013.
- Knowable Audio-first expert courses for commute learning—acquired by Medium in 2021.
- Labelbox Training data platform for ML teams — labeling, curation, and model evaluation.
- Limitless AI wearable pendant for personal memory — formerly Rewind desktop capture; acquired by Meta 2025.
- Lob.com API for programmatic direct mail — print, ship, and verify addresses at scale.
- Merkle Manufactory, Inc. Developer of Farcaster, a decentralized social protocol with onchain identities and client apps.
- Paloma AI-native CRM stitching contracts, usage, and invoices for post-sales revenue teams.
- PatientPing National ADT care-coordination network, now part of Bamboo Health after Appriss Health acquisition.
- Petual Agentic AI platform automating internal audit and SOX compliance testing.
- Pomelo Care Virtual maternal and newborn care platform for health plans and employers.
- Prepared AI-powered 911 and emergency dispatch software for public safety agencies.
- Promise Flexible, interest-free payment plans for government and utility bills.
- Reducto AI document-intelligence platform parsing PDFs and unstructured files for enterprise agents.
- Rescale High-performance computing cloud for engineering simulation and AI workloads.
- Roblox User-generated gaming platform and virtual economy for immersive experiences.
- Rockmelt Social web browser acquired by Yahoo in 2013 for roughly $60–70M.
- Snackpass Social food-ordering app for college campuses and pickup restaurants.
- Sprig In-product user research and concept-testing platform for product teams.
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