# Founders You Should Know

> Founders You Should Know is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-you-should-know/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/foundersysk
- Website: https://foundersysk.com/

Founders You Should Know is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Meet the best founders from seed through growth.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Security | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Real Time | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airbase | Airbase provides modern RF spectrum coordination software. It specializes in radio-frequency spectrum licensing, coordination, and intelligence tools. The platform supports efficient management of RF spectrum resources. | $5M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Coverbase | Coverbase is an AI-native procurement orchestration platform that unifies vendor intake, risk assessments, contract analysis, and ongoing supplier monitoring into a single intelligent workflow. Designed for regulated and security-conscious enterprises, it automates due diligence, validates control evidence, and ensures compliance across every stageof the procurement lifecycle. By combining AI-driven risk analysis, document intelligence, and workflow automation, Coverbase helps organizations move faster, reduce manual effort, and make secure, data-backed purchasing decisions. | $16.5M | Series A | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Rime | Rime develops speech technologies for a wide range of customers. The company works on speech generation with a deep understanding of linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena needed to create the next generation of text-to-speech tooling. | $5.5M | Seed | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Quanta | Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work. | $4.7M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Airfold | Airfold is designed to easily ingest your batch and streaming data, join/aggregate it with SQL, and publish the results as APIs for other teams to access it. Without worrying about managing infrastructure or complex integrations. | $4M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Echo Chunk AI | Echo Chunk builds epic strategy games that generate themselves. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Comma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comma-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A16Z GAMES Speedrun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-games) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anorak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anorak-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Founders You Should Know invest in?

Founders You Should Know invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Security startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 You Should Know last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Founders You Should Know closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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