First Round Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
First Round Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a community of technology entrepreneurs and companies, including Uber, Square, and Warby Parker. Through custom-built software, incredible in-person experiences, and a host of other unique services, First Round helps tiny companies get big while constantly reimagining the role of venturecapital. It offers a growing number of services and products to help founders build companies from scratch.First Round has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
- Total investments:
- 854
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries First Round Capital invests in
Stages First Round Capital invests in
Countries First Round Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$9.8M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$26M
- Series B
- $7M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 127 (15%)
- Information Technology 52 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 48 (6%)
- SaaS 43 (5%)
- Health Care 43 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 248 (29%)
- Series A 227 (27%)
- Series B 117 (14%)
- Series C 56 (7%)
- Funding Round 40 (5%)
Country
- United States 409 (48%)
- Canada 9 (1%)
- India 2 (0%)
- Ireland 2 (0%)
- United Kingdom 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amy Fu
VP, Investments
|
VP, Investments | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Elliot Cohen
Angel Track
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Angel Track | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Emery Rosansky
VP, Revenue Growth and Enablement
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VP, Revenue Growth and Enablement | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Akins Van Horne
Angel Track
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Angel Track | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Bill Trenchard
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 78 | Find email | |
| See all 28 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Healia Health
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Healia is a company that provides revolutionizing health insurance for dual-income households, saving employers 85% each registered family. | $14M / Series A / Jul 28, 2026 | |
Andrenam
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Andrenam is a defense technology and artificial intelligence company that develops an AI-powered distributed maritime sensing network for persistent underwater and surface domain awareness. The company builds autonomous acoustic sensing systems that detect, classify, and track maritime activity in real time, providing continuous intelligence fordefense, maritime security, and autonomous naval operations. Founded by former aerospace engineers, Andrenam focuses on strengthening maritime situational awareness through scalable, networked sensing infrastructure.Its platform combines AI-powered sonar processing, distributed acoustic sensing, edge and cloud computing, autonomous sensor networks, real-time data streaming, underwater target detection, and maritime intelligence into a unified system. Andrenam's Pearl smart buoys continuously collect and transmit acoustic data, enabling operators to detect and track submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and other maritime assets with low-latency analytics. The platform integrates AI-driven signal processing with distributed hardware to support persistent monitoring across large maritime environments. | $18M / Series A / Jul 23, 2026 | |
Assured Health
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Assured Health provides a platform to automate healthcare credentialing, licensing, and payor enrollment for healthcare organizations. | $19M / Series A / Jul 22, 2026 | |
Gritt Robotics
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Gritt Robotics is automating renewable energy construction using AI and Robotics. | $26M / Series A / Jul 21, 2026 | |
Corner Health
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Operator of a nurse practitioner management platform intended to empower nurses to start and manage their independent practices. | $25M / Series A / Jul 13, 2026 | |
Proception
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Proception specializes in the development of advanced humanoid robotic hands and robotic systems. | $11M / Seed / Jun 29, 2026 | |
Assort Health
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Assort Health is building healthcare that remembers.From call center automation and form intake to referrals, document processing, outreach, and payments, we manage the entire patient journey for providers. Our platform is the most widely used AI agents platform for the patient journey, built on 180 million specialty patient interactions and amodel that handles the complexity general-purpose AI can’t.Healthcare organizations see a 5% lift in appointment volume, a 115% increase in labor capacity, and a 4.3 out of 5 patient satisfaction score.With over $222M raised from Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, First Round Capital, Apolo Ohno, and Joe Montana, Assort is becoming the standard for how providers use AI to transform the patient journey.Learn more at assorthealth.com | $120M / Series C / Jun 24, 2026 | |
Ploy
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Ploy is an AI growth platform that builds, optimizes, and operates a company's website and marketing channels. | $27M / Seed / Jun 14, 2026 | |
Endurance Energy
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Endurance Energy is a clean energy technology company that develops offshore geothermal power systems designed to generate continuous electricity from deep-sea hydrothermal resources. The company focuses on harnessing heat from tectonic and volcanic activity beneath the ocean floor, converting it into baseload power that can operate independentlyof traditional fuel supply chains. Its platform centers on seafloor-deployed generation systems intended to deliver steady power output in remote or high-demand regions. The company designs and builds subsea energy infrastructure that includes drilling systems, hydrothermal generators, and related marine deployment equipment. These systems are engineered to operate in deep-water environments where geothermal vents produce high-temperature fluids, enabling energy extraction through specialized conversion processes. The approach emphasizes continuous generation using naturally occurring thermal gradients rather than intermittent renewable sources.Endurance Energy also integrates maritime engineering, robotics, and offshore operations to support installation and maintenance of its systems. Its development model includes vessel-based deployment and testing, with engineering teams working on prototyping and validating equipment for deep-sea conditions. The company’s activities extend to operational planning for energy delivery to island grids and coastal infrastructure. | $54M / Series A / Jun 11, 2026 | |
Scotch
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From neighborhood stores to destination warehouses, liquor retailers of all sizes have been held back by manual tasks, slow systems and limited business intelligence. So we decided to build something better — smarter software that saves time and improves margins so independent retailers could focus on their customers, not manually managinginventory. | $20M / Series A / Jun 04, 2026 | |
| See all 854 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does First Round Capital invest in?
First Round Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 854 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 First Round Capital's check size?
First Round Capital typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$9.8M at Seed, $2.5M–$26M at Series A and $7M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds First Round Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at First Round Capital?
The team at First Round Capital includes Amy Fu (VP, Investments), Elliot Cohen (Angel Track) and Emery Rosansky (VP, Revenue Growth and Enablement), among 28 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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