# First Row Partners

> First Row Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstrowpartners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FirstRowVC
- Website: http://www.firstrowpartners.vc

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?

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |
| B2C | 1 | 10% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| Colombia | 1 | 10% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Danna Redmond | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danna-redmond |
| Minda Brusse | Co-Founder + Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minda-brusse |
| Yoko Okano | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoko-okano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harmony Intelligence | 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 | WealthMore is the first tech-enabled, human-powered private banking service without the premium price tag. | $1M | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Logoi | 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.ai | 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 | 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 | 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 | Milk Video is a platform that turns your webinar into video highlights. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| mpathic.ai | 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 |  |
| Dathic | Dathic stands for Data and Tech for Communities. At Dathic, we help brands serve authentically the US fastest growing market, Multicultural consumers! Dathic's deep insights and AI-powered analytics solutions enable research, marketing, and sales teams to understand diverse communities at any location in the US and create tailored sales andmarketing strategies to reach their multicultural consumers authentically with the products and services they love. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2020 |  |
| Atlas | No-code friendly tool to automate emails and send segmented campaigns. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 26, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2048 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2048-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crosscut Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosscut-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FullCircle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fullcircle-c7b1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Illuminate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illuminate-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Portland Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portland-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Row Partners's check size?

First Row Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed and $1M–$1.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds First Row Partners participates 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?

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