# Fuel Capital

> Fuel Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 148 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, United States
- Total investments: 148
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuel-capital/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/fuelcapital
- Website: http://fuelcapital.com

Fuel Capital is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to being more than a source of capital - we want to be true confidantes to every founder in the Fuel family. We stand in our founder’s corner, not their kitchen. We leverage our resources, connections, experience, and expertise to carve a shortcut for them - so their energy is spent on buildingthe future, instead of knocking on doors. Fuel was founded in 2013 by Chris Howard. Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit, joined as a General Partner in 2017.  We invests in consumer, business software and cloud/ infrastructure companies. With a strong track record - including investments in 8 unicorns (Convoy, Flexport, Figma, Pacaso, Lattice, Highspot, thredUP, and Weave), several recently acquired companies (CTRL-Labs - acquired by Facebook, CoreOS - acquired by RedHat, Nervana - acquired by Intel, Hightower - acquired by View the Space), as well as numerous up-and-coming companies - Fuel has rightfully earned the reputation of being one of Silicon Valley’s leading seed funds.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$3.8M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 41 | 28% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 8% |
| SaaS | 9 | 6% |

194 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 76 | 51% |
| Series A | 32 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 7% |
| Series B | 8 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 100 | 68% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Howard | Founder and Partner | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-howard |
| Jamie Viggiano | CMO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-viggiano |
| Leah Busque | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-solivan |
| Leah Busque | General Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-busque |
| Leah Solivan | Managing Director | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-solivan-6048 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rosebud | Therapist-backed AI journal built to support personal growth and emotional well-being. | $6M | Seed | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Charm | Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It alsorenders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library.Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019. | $6M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight develops a platform for debugging apps and gives full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance metrics. They believe that by giving people the best tools to solve customer and engineering issues, they can spend more time building their business, and less time searching through logs, manually trying to reproduce errors,and investing too early in their support processes. | $8M | Seed | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Collaborative Robotics | Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. | $30M | Series A | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Sourcetable | Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3M | Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Standard Fleet | Software for electric vehicle owners | $7M | Seed | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Woven | Everyday Agents is pioneering the development of LLM-powered Agents for high-consideration conversations |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Checkmate | Checkmate's a browser extension that generates you personalized deals based on who you are at 100k online stores. Your data's everywhere. Put it to work. Tell Checkmate about yourself in 30 seconds and start saving everywhere. | $15M | Series A | May 25, 2023 |  |
| HUSSLUP | HUSSLUP enables creators in media and entertainment to build a diverse global community through personal profiles with verified credits and vouches and encrypted creative samples. Users can connect with each other and create and share annotated contact lists organized by project. HUSSLUP enables creators to connect with jobs, mentors, andrepresentation through Pro Search tool that enables executives, producers, and representatives to search for the talent they need to hire. HUSSLUP enables creators to collaborate through sharing encrypted creative projects in their working groups and private messages. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| Capitol AI | Capitol is an AI platform that offers health data solutions for healthcare insurers. The company brings data modeling, AI-powered visualization, collaboration, and storytelling to business users. It helps healthcare organizations make critical decisions by unlocking their data scientists and empowering business users. The company’s Data StoriesPlatform creates visually driven tools that bypass decision bottlenecks by automating insights that drive action.Capitol was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, USA. | $10M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 148 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Fuel Capital invest in?

Fuel Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 148 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 Fuel Capital's check size?

Fuel Capital typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$6M at Seed, $1.1M–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fuel Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Fuel Capital?

Public channels for Fuel Capital 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 Fuel Capital?

The team at Fuel Capital includes Chris Howard (Founder and Partner), Jamie Viggiano (CMO) and Leah Busque (General 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 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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