Designer Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Designer Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. Designer Fund invests in tech startups that are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health. Designer Fund specializes in helping design products and scale design teams through their professional development programs Bridge and Designer Founder Guild. Their community includes exceptional designer founders and design leaders fromcompanies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox.
- Total investments:
- 116
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Designer Fund invests in
Stages Designer Fund invests in
Countries Designer Fund invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 38 (33%)
- Health Care 14 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (10%)
- SaaS 10 (9%)
- Information Technology 9 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 54 (47%)
- Series A 33 (28%)
- Series B 9 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (7%)
- Funding Round 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 79 (68%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
- The Netherlands 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Blumenrose
Co-Director and Managing Partner
|
Co-Director and Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Christina Brodbeck
Mentor
|
Mentor | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Enrique Allen
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Patrick Dugan
Bridge Fellow
|
Bridge Fellow | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work. | $34M / Series A / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Fearn is an AI-native patent drafting platform that lets inventors and companies prepare patent applications in minutes instead of 50+ hours, with flat-rate pricing and no third‑party AI models. | $5.5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| The Path is an outcome-focused, AI-driven mental wellness application co-founded by motivational speaker Tony Robbins and a neuroscientist. Engineered to actively challenge users rather than just provide validation, the platform blends traditional cognitive frameworks with advanced computational power to drive tangible personal progress. | $14.3M / Seed / May 21, 2026 | ||
| Joyful Health provides revenue intelligence software and services for healthcare practices and related organizations. The platform unifies claims, remittances, contracts, appointments, and payments into a single financial command center. It ingests data from EHR systems, eligibility checks, ERAs, payer contracts, and bank accounts to surfacemissing revenue and denial issues. The company also offers managed services to handle ongoing denials, unpaid claims, historical and aged accounts receivable, and upcoming EOB reconciliation. Joyful Health serves healthcare practitioners, billing companies, digital health organizations, and practice management groups that want clearer visibility into financial performance and recovered revenue. | $17M / Series A / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Reflow develops workflow intelligence software that gives teams visibility into business operations, tracks process performance, identifies inefficiencies, supports automation decisions, and measures operational results over time. | $15M / Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Adora automatically maps all of your screens and routes as they appear in production, in real-time, to build a comprehensive product library. | $7M / Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work. | $15M / Series A / Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Previvor Edge is an clinical and comprehensive program for cancer prevention and early detection. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Euclid Power operates in the renewable energy sector, providing a comprehensive platform for project management, investment, and execution. The company offers data-driven solutions that span from project development to asset management. Euclid Power's platform is designed to simplify the process of renewable energy project development andexecution. | $20M / Series A / Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Copper is a a battery solutions startup. | $28M / Series A / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| See all 116 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Designer Fund invest in?
Designer Fund invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 116 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Designer Fund?
The team at Designer Fund includes Ben Blumenrose (Co-Director and Managing Partner), Christina Brodbeck (Mentor) and Enrique Allen (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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