# Designer Fund

> Designer Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Health Care. See 113 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 113
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Fund size: $24M
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2998004
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/designerfund
- Website: http://designerfund.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DesignerFund

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Designer Fund. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Designer Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/designer-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 33% |
| Health Care | 14 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 10% |
| SaaS | 9 | 8% |
| Enterprise Software | 8 | 7% |

142 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 54 | 48% |
| Series A | 32 | 28% |
| Series B | 9 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 78 | 69% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Blumenrose | Co-Director and Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-blumenfeld |
| Christina Brodbeck | Mentor | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-brodbeck |
| Enrique Allen | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enrique-allen |
| Patrick Dugan | Bridge Fellow | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-dugan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paper | Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work. | $34M | Series A | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Fearn | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Previvor Edge is an clinical and comprehensive program for cancer prevention and early detection. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Euclid Power | 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 | Copper is a a battery solutions startup. | $28M | Series A | Aug 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 113 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [#Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/-angels) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Parade Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parade-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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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 113 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Designer Fund?

Public channels for Designer Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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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