# Founders Network Fund

> Founders Network Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-network
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/foundersnetwork
- Website: https://foundersnetworkfund.com/

Founders Network Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. FN Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Founders Network (FN), an invite-only community of tech startup founders.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 36% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |
| B2B | 1 | 9% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 45% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 73% |
| France | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PiLogic | PiLogic AI platform offers rapid analysis of radar data for real-time applications. | $4.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Sellible.ai | Sellible solves the problem of ineffective, in-consistent sales training for B2B sales teams. Traditional methods are outdated, unscalable, and fail to prepare reps for real conversations. Sellible enables sales professionals to master sales conversations through gamified, real-time AI-driven role-play simulations. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2025 |  |
| Scalestack | Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline. | $3M | Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Paren | Accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, delivering data solutions that ensure every journey is powered by trust, reliability and sustainability. | $3M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| Skillfully | Skillfully was founded on the belief that hiring should be efficient, inclusive, and skills-centric. Through experiential hiring methods using virtual simulations, employers now see applicant skills in action. This solution uncovers the perfect fit for a role before the interview phase, saving HR teams time, money, and effort.For decades,recruiters have relied on resume-based hiring to superficially qualify candidates by parsing applicant descriptions of skills to determine employability. The rise of AI tools that automatically enhance and submit applications at an unprecedented scale has overwhelmed employer pipelines, making accurate and precise decision-making nearly impossible.Enter Skillfully’s recruitment solution - HiredNow. The HiredNow tool allows employers create custom simulations of real-life, on-the-job scenarios to effectively assess an applicant’s actual skill level. For the first time, employers can see an applicant’s skills firsthand to determine if their abilities match the unique requirements of a job opening before engaging with the applicant directly. These simulations provide a precise skills scorecard for every applicant, vastly improving hiring efficiency compared to traditional resume-driven tools and enabling skills-first hiring at scale.Through the Skillfully platform, employers can also hire directly from our exclusive, skill-verified TalentNetwork, which includes national career partners such as leading universities, community college systems, HBCUs and workforce development organizations. Employers hiring from our TalentNetwork get access to a deeply diverse and highly motivated candidate pool often overlooked by conventional resume-first hiring tools and professional networks.In this new Age of AI “Good on Paper” is no longer good enough for employers searching for the very best talent. Discover how Skillfully can transform your hiring process today! | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Scalestack | Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline. | $1M | Seed | Nov 20, 2023 |  |
| Scalestack | Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 20, 2023 |  |
| Shovels | Shovels provides go-to-market data for the building trades. Shovels tags and ties 100 million building permits with 4 million contractors nationwide so software developers can build products and GTM solutions for the construction industry.. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Mimoto | Mimoto analyzes every time a human interacts with a system to identify malicious system-level behavior. It sends alerts and enforces policies in near real-time to address cyberattacks before they can be weaponized. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Gybe | Gybe provides "CTO for hire" service for startups. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Flyer One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flyer-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ripple Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ripple-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FirsthandVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthandvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Team Ignite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team-ignite-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [American Student Assistance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-student-assistance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Founders Network Fund invest in?

Founders Network Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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.

### When did Founders Network Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Founders Network Fund closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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.

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