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First Row Partners
Venture capital · Seattle, WA, United States · North America
First Row Partners is a pre-seed specialist venture firm that applies arts-based approaches to investing in technology. Its founding partners have invested in more than 20 pre-seed startups across the US and Canada since 2020.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscreator economymediacommercecontent creationbrand building
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Or find every investor that fitsFirst Row Partners lists 24 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (21%), Fintech (12%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (12%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and Avalanche VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name First Row Partners, 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 First Row Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 24. 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 | 100% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 59th | 24 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 73th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 19th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 12% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Avalanche VC | 2 |
| Long Way Ventures | 2 |
| TenOneTen Ventures | 2 |
| WXR Fund | 2 |
| 2048 Ventures | 1 |
| Accellius Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2396%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 togetherCompare First Row Partners 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 First Row Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 1 Apr 2024 | Pre-Seed |
Round details for First Row Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in First Row Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
24 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aneko AI helps medical imaging groups and health systems recover revenue by using AI to complete orders and retrieve prior studies before radiologists read them | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Candid Wholesale provides a wholesale ecommerce software and B2B management platform for brands, retailers, distributors, and representatives | E-commerce & MarketplacesEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Dathic provides a product and store locator for CPG brands | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides automated accounting services, including expense automation, invoicing, and financial reporting | Fintech | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides artificial intelligence for home health documentation | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Harmony Intelligence continuously pentests applications using state-of-the-art AI agents and human experts | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI recruiting platform for high-volume hiring | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Impacked sources packaging for companies, connecting them with suppliers and manufacturers. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Kickplan provides turnkey monetization solutions for growth-stage SaaS companies | Space & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Liftoff connects people to job opportunities through trusted networks using AI and human insight. | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for managing creator campaigns and partnerships | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
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| MPathic helps AI builders evaluate and improve their models with expert-led evaluation and scientifically grounded benchmarking, focused on psychosocial risks. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | |||
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| Prisms is the world’s first spatial learning platform in which students learn core math, science, and everything else through abstracting up from physical human experiences. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Runic uses cutting-edge AI to help marketing teams understand customer feedback and make data-driven decisions | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Thread provides an always-on account manager for customers of software companies, payments companies, and sales agents | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- firstrowpartners.vc
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Apr 2024
- Companies checked
- 24
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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