# Founders First Capital Partners

> Founders First Capital Partners is a VC fund backing FinTech and mHealth. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-first-capital-partners-llc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/f1stcp
- Website: https://foundersfirstcapitalpartners.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/f1stcp/

Founders First Capital Partners is a VC fund in San Diego focused on FinTech and mHealth. Founders First Capital Partners, LLC is building a comprehensive ecosystem through its proprietary platform to empower underrepresented founders to become leading premium wage job creators within their communities. They provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capitalmarkets such as Silicon Valley and New York City. They focus on supporting businesses led by women, ethnic minorities, and military veterans, inclusive teams and businesses located in low to moderate income areas. Their proprietary business accelerator programs, learning platform, and growth methodologies transition these underserved service-based businesses into $5M to $10M recurring revenue, tech-enabled companies while providing, high-yield investments for fund limited partners (LPs) that perform like bonds but generate returns on par with equity investments.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Founders First Capital Partners. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Founders First Capital Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/founders-first-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| mHealth | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| UX Design | 1 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kim Folsom | Founder and CEO | 0 | — |
| Bella Gangnes | Director of Investments | 0 | — |
| Joshua Palkki | Portfolio Management Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Naturik | Naturik is the finest and healthiest Desi Indian breakfast brand. | $180K | Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Topflight Apps | We are a product design company. Ranked by Clutch as a top mobile app developer in Orange County and Los Angeles, and a top mhealth app developer in the United States. Healthcare clients include Stanford and Medable, among others.We are a team of UI/UX designers, product designers, full-stack developers, and ex-founders of companies, eachrigorously hand-picked for the qualities that contribute most to product success. Together, we build web and mobile apps that solve our clients’ problems in the most multidisciplinary and innovative ways possible. We expect everyone on our team that touches your project to bring elite craftmanship and become a trusted partner that helps you make product decisions that lead to business growth. | $250K |  | Oct 31, 2021 |  |
| Topflight Apps | We are a product design company. Ranked by Clutch as a top mobile app developer in Orange County and Los Angeles, and a top mhealth app developer in the United States. Healthcare clients include Stanford and Medable, among others.We are a team of UI/UX designers, product designers, full-stack developers, and ex-founders of companies, eachrigorously hand-picked for the qualities that contribute most to product success. Together, we build web and mobile apps that solve our clients’ problems in the most multidisciplinary and innovative ways possible. We expect everyone on our team that touches your project to bring elite craftmanship and become a trusted partner that helps you make product decisions that lead to business growth. | $250K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2021 |  |
| Hashtag You | Hashtag You is a brand builder in the field of direct-to-consumer e-commerce. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Welcome Homes | Welcome Homes operates as an online residential real estate platform that aims to turn home buyers into home builders by creating a more seamless and price transparent home buying process. | $5.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAVCF3](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aavcf3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Adapt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adapt-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arkin Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkin-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elefund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elefund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Founders First Capital Partners invest in?

Founders First Capital Partners invests primarily in FinTech, mHealth and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 5 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 Founders First Capital Partners?

Public channels for Founders First Capital Partners 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 Founders First Capital Partners?

The team at Founders First Capital Partners includes Kim Folsom (Founder and CEO), Bella Gangnes (Director of Investments) and Joshua Palkki (Portfolio Management Director). 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co