First Row Partners
VC Fund
Seattle, United States
First Row Partners is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Co-founded by Yoko Okano and Minda Brusse, First Row Partners funds early stage startups ready for a big leap forward. We invest in solving meaningful human problems with technology and typically focus on software. We seek answers to two primary questions 1. How are societal shifts affecting the way people approach and perform paid work? 2. When, how and where are people buying what they value?
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
- Fund size:
- $170k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries First Row Partners invests in
Stages First Row Partners invests in
Countries First Row Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$1.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- Analytics 2 (18%)
- B2B 1 (9%)
- B2C 1 (9%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 6 (55%)
- Seed 5 (45%)
Country
- United States 8 (73%)
- Colombia 1 (9%)
- Australia 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Danna Redmond
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Minda Brusse
Co-Founder + Managing Director
|
Co-Founder + Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Yoko Okano
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swishvo addresses the challenge of efficiently connecting individuals with the right holistic health providers. The company's solution is a unified platform that seamlessly connects users with diverse, qualified professionals, simplifying the search and access to tailored holistic healthcare solutions.It was founded in 2023 and is located inAtlanta, Georgia. | Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Harmony Intelligence guarantees that AI solutions satisfy your particular needs as well as industry norms. Evaluation and user query answering are two regular, repetitive IT security duties that Harmony's AI copilot automates. | $3M / Seed / Mar 09, 2025 | ||
| WealthMore is the first tech-enabled, human-powered private banking service without the premium price tag. | $1M / Seed / Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Logoi is a SaaS product designed to facilitate knowledge transfer, knowledge management, productivity, and onboarding. Logoi is a developer of an AI-powered personal assistant. | Pre-Seed / Dec 19, 2022 | ||
| mpathic is keeping humans safe in the AI era through automated tools and expert datasets that are rooted in psychology and powered by clinicians. | $4M / Seed / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| Ettos is the e-commerce platform for beauty in LATAM. It was created as a solution to the lack of online access to all beauty products consumed in Latin America. | Pre-Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Velt is the complete collaboration toolkit for SaaS. With a full-stack SDK and APIs, product teams embed contextual comments, notifications, async recordings, CRDT-based multiplayer editing, presence, and huddles directly inside their apps—in days, not months. Built for B2B products, Velt is developer-first and enterprise-ready, helping teams shiprich, in-product collaboration without rebuilding realtime infra or compliance plumbing. | $2.8M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Milk Video is a platform that turns your webinar into video highlights. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2021 | ||
| mpathic is keeping humans safe in the AI era through automated tools and expert datasets that are rooted in psychology and powered by clinicians. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 24, 2021 | ||
| No-code friendly tool to automate emails and send segmented campaigns. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Nov 20, 2020 | ||
| See all 11 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does First Row Partners invest in?
First Row Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does First Row Partners invest in?
First Row Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed and $1M–$1.2M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not First Row Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds First Row Partners took part in.
How do I contact First Row Partners?
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Who are the partners at First Row Partners?
The team at First Row Partners includes Danna Redmond (Limited Partner), Minda Brusse (Co-Founder + Managing Director) and Yoko Okano (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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