Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner @ Y Combinator
San Francisco, United States
Calvin French-Owen is a seed investor at Y Combinator in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Calvin French-Owen is Builder at calv.info. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Calvin French-Owen invests in
Stages Calvin French-Owen invests in
Countries Calvin French-Owen invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
- Series A
- $7M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (39%)
- Information Technology 10 (32%)
- Developer Tools 7 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (13%)
- Apps 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (58%)
- Series A 6 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (16%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 20 (65%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
- Switzerland 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Meticulous
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Meticulous is a tool for detecting bugs in web applications. The company was founded in 2021. | $15M / Series A / Jul 15, 2026 | |
Legion Health
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Legion Health provides telepsychiatry services that enhance patient access to mental health care. The company focuses on integrating technology to streamline interactions between patients and providers while ensuring services are covered by insurance. It aims to support comprehensive mental wellness through personalized treatment plans andcollaboration with other care team members. | Seed / Jan 13, 2026 | |
Shuttle
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The fastest backend development experience ever. | $6M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | |
Tesseral
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Okapi facilitates the storing, updating, and retrieval of customer data for businesses using CRM (customer relationship management) software. | $3.3M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | |
Espresso AI
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Espresso AI is an internet-based company that specializes in generative AI for query optimization. The company's primary service is to help customers save on their Snowflake bills by speeding up queries. Espresso AI's technology is designed to optimize data warehouse operations, making it a valuable tool for businesses that rely heavilyon data analysis and storage. With a team of 7 employees, Espresso AI is committed to leveraging AI technology to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of data management processes. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | |
Highlight
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Highlight develops a platform for debugging apps and gives full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance metrics. They believe that by giving people the best tools to solve customer and engineering issues, they can spend more time building their business, and less time searching through logs, manually trying to reproduce errors,and investing too early in their support processes. | $8M / Seed / Aug 15, 2023 | |
Resend
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Resend is an email API for developers. | $3M / Seed / Jul 18, 2023 | |
Coast
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Coast is an IT company that offers customization and exclusive links for each prospect. | $2.1M / Seed / Apr 05, 2023 | |
Strive Education
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Strive teaches K12 math through code via live 1-1 online classes. Strive classes provide students with code games and visualizations that are aligned to their school math syllabus, in the process, kids learn the most valuable skill in the 21st century which are related to coding. | $1.3M / Seed / Feb 20, 2023 | |
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Meticulous
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Meticulous is a tool for detecting bugs in web applications. The company was founded in 2021. | $4M / Seed / Feb 06, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It offers a program where startups receive guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. The organization helps founders in their business models and develop their products. Y Combinator serves industries such as technology, healthcare, andfinance.
Y Combinator Contacts
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Boris Jabes
Visiting Partner
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Luther Lowe
Head of Public Policy
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Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner
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Brad Flora
Group Partner
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Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner
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FAQ
What does Calvin French-Owen invest in?
Calvin French-Owen invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Developer Tools startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Calvin French-Owen's check size?
Calvin French-Owen typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $7M–$35M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Calvin French-Owen participates in.
When did Calvin French-Owen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Calvin French-Owen closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 31 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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