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What does Designer Fund invest in?
Designer Fund invests most often at Seed and Series A (73% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Health, Sustainability and Financial Infrastructure.
Designer Fund highlights
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9 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 73% of its rounds
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Investing in early-stage tech companies that use design to improve health, sustainability, and prosperity for all people.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $350K – $750K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- HealthSustainabilityFinancial Infrastructure
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first60 appearances
- 2026
8 rounds
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2025
15 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2024
2 rounds
- Dec
- Jun
- 2023
8 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Mar
- Mar
- 2022
5 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Mar
- Feb
- 2021
6 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
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 registration3 named
BBBen BlumenfeldManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
BBBen BlumenroseManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
EAEnrique AllenManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 13 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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
AllclassesBought by NoodleUndisclosedJul 2015
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.