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Designer Fund
Venture capital
Designer Fund invests in early-stage technology companies and supports them with design across their team, product and brand. It provides hands-on help with product and brand design, design hiring, fundraising, and access to a community of founders, advisors and design leaders.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdesignhealthsustainabilityfintechdeveloper toolscollaboration
Your fit with Designer Fund
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Or find every investor that fitsDesigner Fund lists 80 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (15%), Healthcare & Biotech (15%) and Fintech (13%). 90% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital and Collaborative Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Designer Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Designer Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 12 companies; its own site lists 80. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 42% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 8% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 1 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 80 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 42% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 74th | 9% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 3th | 15% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| General Catalyst | 8 |
| Sequoia Capital | 7 |
| Collaborative Fund | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| BoxGroup | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
| Homebrew | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7999%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with General Catalyst
Compare Designer Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Designer Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 5 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Series A | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Series A | |
| 10 Jun 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Designer Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Designer Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
80 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adora maps a product's entire experience, scans user sessions for friction, and prioritizes what to ship next. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Air provides digital asset management and creative workflow solutions for various industries | Media & EntertainmentSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Ambrook provides financial tools, including bookkeeping, payments, and business insights, to help businesses manage their operations | FintechSpace & Defense | Jul 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Applied Electrodynamics develops and sells a camera that can see through walls and map mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems with millimeter accuracy. | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
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| August Health provides a platform for senior living care and operations, including electronic health records and medication management | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Bezi provides an AI assistant for Unity and Unreal Engine game development | GamingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bitrig helps build and ship native Swift apps with AI | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Brand AI provides AI for brand management, making brands machine-readable for teams, tools, and agents to use consistently | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Capitol AI develops a platform that codifies an institution's proprietary data, expertise, and processes into governed workflows to produce finished work products | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round | ||
| Chromatic provides a frontend UI testing and review platform for teams | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Commure provides AI-powered healthcare operations solutions, including clinical documentation, patient experience, and medical billing automation. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Copper produces and sells a plug-in induction range with an integrated battery called Charlie. | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Dupe helps users find similar products, including furniture, fragrance, and fashion items. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Elevate develops and offers a brain training app with personalized games and puzzles to improve cognitive skills | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Era is a financial platform that brings your accounts, documents and agents together to find savings and take routine work off your hands. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Euclid Power develops solutions for renewable energy project development | EducationFintech | Sept 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Ever.green sells and buys High-Impact RECs for sustainability teams | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- designerfund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Aug 2017
- Companies checked
- 80
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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