# The W Fund

> The W Fund is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/w-fund/
- Website: http://wrule.vc

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The W Fund. Shizune tracks 9 team members at The W Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-w-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 19% |
| FinTech | 3 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 10% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 43% |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 48% |
| Canada | 2 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joseph Wallin | Independent Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-wallin |
| Allyson Kapin | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allyson-kapin |
| Jennifer Tacheff | Co-Founder \| Founder Coaching Program | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-tacheff |
| Jory Des Jardins | VC in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jory-des-jardins |
| Kate Brodock | Founding Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kate-brodock |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Simplifyber | 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 |  |
| Haloo | 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 |  |
| Haloo | 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 (acquired by Echelon Fitness) | 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 |  |
| FORTË (acquired by Echelon Fitness) | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Haloo | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

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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.

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