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What does 1517 Fund invest in?
1517 Fund invests most often at Seed and Venture (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Deep_tech and Science.
1517 Fund highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 67% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
1517 Fund is an anti-establishment educational institution and VC firm backing founders at the earliest stages of their careers and companies.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $5K – $400K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Deep_techScience
- Based in
- Telluride, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first58 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Feb
- 2025
15 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2024
14 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
8 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
DSDanielle StrachmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MGMichael GibsonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in 1517 Fund's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Ambient Sound Investments1 fundFund Vintage Committed 1517 Fund - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
6 of 14 we have independently watched raise
Deep learning cloudDiscordFossaHigh-volume hiring management SaaSNext-gen engineering design SaaSPositronAdvanced laundry machineAsynchronous video SaaSCloudExpress robo-garment cleanerLaundromat vertical SaaSNeutral atom quantum computingNext generation GPSPCB prototyping shipped
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.