The W Fund
VC Fund
New York, United States
The W Fund is a VC fund in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Our fund is singularly focused on investing in traditionally underfunded founders - women and other underrepresented innovators.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries The W Fund invests in
Artificial IntelligenceFinTechMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSoftware
Stages The W Fund invests in
SeedSeries APre-SeedFunding Round
Countries The W Fund invests in
United StatesCanada
Round sizes
Seed $100k–$3.5MPre-Seed $120k–$1.6MSeries A $3.4M–$35M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$3.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$1.6M
- Series A
- $3.4M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (19%)
- FinTech 3 (14%)
- Machine Learning 3 (14%)
- Financial Services 3 (14%)
- Software 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (43%)
- Series A 4 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 10 (48%)
- Canada 2 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Wallin
Independent Director
|
Independent Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Allyson Kapin
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Jennifer Tacheff
Co-Founder | Founder Coaching Program
|
Co-Founder | Founder Coaching Program | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jory Des Jardins
VC in Residence
|
VC in Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kate Brodock
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplifyber is changing the way clothes are created, transforming the world's $1.5 trillion Apparel Industry and 250-year old factory system into sustainable, additive manufacturing. By assembling clothes with chemistry rather than with sewing machines, the Simplifyber process eliminates much of the waste, carbon emissions, and water pollutionthat have led to fashion’s devastating environmental and social impact in recent years. Efficient, plant-based and closed-loop, Simplifyber is revolutionizing the way the world manufactures clothing with its proprietary technology and cutting-edge techniques. | $12M / Series A / Apr 10, 2025 | ||
| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $3.4M / Series A / Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios. | Jul 10, 2023 | ||
| Vivid Machines is a startup company that revolutionizes agricultural production to help fruit and vegetable farmers produce more food.It develops an agricultural technology that leverages advanced vision sensors and state-of-the-art machine learning to provide fruit and vegetable farmers with plant-specific insights, capturing previouslyunobserved and invisible features to improve yield and product quality. The company also helps farmers digitize the physical and chemical properties of their entire fruit and vegetable field/orchard/production to support more accurate decisions and increase the percentage of crop that makes it to grocery stores. In real-time, this system will quantify fruit and size distribution, detect pests and diseases, and assess overall plant conditions. | $3.2M / Seed / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads. | $100K / Seed / Sep 30, 2022 | ||
| Simplifyber is changing the way clothes are created, transforming the world's $1.5 trillion Apparel Industry and 250-year old factory system into sustainable, additive manufacturing. By assembling clothes with chemistry rather than with sewing machines, the Simplifyber process eliminates much of the waste, carbon emissions, and water pollutionthat have led to fashion’s devastating environmental and social impact in recent years. Efficient, plant-based and closed-loop, Simplifyber is revolutionizing the way the world manufactures clothing with its proprietary technology and cutting-edge techniques. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 06, 2022 | ||
| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $2.3M / Seed / May 16, 2022 | ||
| Clickvoyant's proprietary algorithms combine Director-level expertise with mathematical automation, statistics, and predictive analytics to provide customer analytics for all sized business. | $1.2M / Seed / Jan 17, 2022 | ||
| Shiru leverages computational design to create enhanced proteins that feed the world sustainably. | $17M / Series A / Oct 27, 2021 | ||
| Rares allows you to invest in the sneaker culture. We do this through fractional ownership of rare sneakers. Say goodbye to waiting in long lines for hype drops, or fighting bots online to get your hands on those desirable shoes you can flip for a profit. Rares makes it easy. You buy shares in the shoe instead of buying the shoe. Here is how itworks: LEARN: You may already be savvy about sneaker culture and shoes, which is awesome. However, we feature shoes on our platform that have specific attributes and stories that make them valuable. We will educate you on these stories through our videos and other tools, so you can truly understand the value of what you are investing in. Investing not your thing? Don't worry we got you! We explain all the necessary investing terms so you only have to focus on your knowledge of shoe culture to make a smart investment. BUY: We release our shoes on our app through Initial Public Offerings (IPO). That means we make fractional shares of the shoe available for the first time for you to buy. You can buy this and hold it until we sell the shoe and cash in on the potential profits, or you can trade them with other users on our app after the IPO closes. TRADE: Once the IPO closes, you can always sell your shares to other buyers who missed out on the initial drop! No need to hold on to your shares forever! What is even better is that the shares may be worth more after the drop and you can choose to take your profits. You could also hold on to the shares until we decide to sell the shoe and then you potentially profit off the increase in price. Missed out on the drop, you can also buy shares from someone looking to sell theirs. Either way, it is up to you. Our platform makes it easier than ever to match buyers and sellers. ENGAGE: Whether you are actively trading or not, we welcome you to come on our platform to engage in a community of like-minded users. You can follow other investors, like comment, and react to relevant posts around sneakers. We think it is important to not feel like you are the only one in the room on a trading platform and we know sneakers and community go hand in hand. So please hang out and stay a while! So what are you waiting for? Stop watching from the sidelines! Invest in the culture! DISCLAIMER: This is not an offer, solicitation of an offer, or advice to buy or sell securities, or open a brokerage account on the Rares Platform. The Rares platform, 370 Legacy, inc and 370 Legacy Markets, does not recommend any securities. All investments involve risk and the past performance of a security or financial product does not guarantee future results or returns. Keep in mind that while diversification may help spread risk, it does not assure a profit, or protect against loss, in a down market. There is always the potential of losing money when you invest in securities or other financial products. Investors should consider their investment objectives and risks carefully before investing. | $4M / Seed / Oct 11, 2021 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does The W Fund invest in?
The W Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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 The W Fund's check size?
The W Fund typically joins rounds of $100k–$3.5M at Seed, $120k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $3.4M–$35M 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 The W Fund participates in.
How do I contact The W Fund?
Public channels for The W Fund include LinkedIn 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 The W Fund?
The team at The W Fund includes Joseph Wallin (Independent Director), Allyson Kapin (Founding Partner) and Jennifer Tacheff (Co-Founder | Founder Coaching Program), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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