First Round Capital

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionOct 22, 2026 · AI · Jul 25, 2026

First Round Capital concentrates on the first stages of company creation, investing across angel, pre-seed and seed rounds and working with founders on their earliest operating decisions.

Its team can help develop an initial sales strategy and recruit critical early hires before a startup has those functions in-house. The firm looks for a distinctive insight into a market or customer need and how the founding team can turn it into a business.

Founders can approach before they are ready to raise. Its PMF Method is designed to help early teams work toward product-market fit, making the firm relevant during the period of customer discovery as well as during a formal seed process.

Sources
Rounds participated in
6
Confirmed lead rounds
3
1 roles undisclosed
New companies
4
First participation on record · 2 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$309M
6 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed3
Series B2
Series A1

By primary sector

AI1
Defense tech1
Developer tools1
Enterprise software1
Fintech1
1 more
Healthtech1

By country

United States6

Rounds

6 in this selection
Mach9

AI CAD software that turns laser scans and imagery into engineering drawings for infrastructure projects.

$34MSeries A
Lead
Town

Town is a personal AI assistant that works across email, calendars, documents and messaging to handle tasks in a user’s connected tools.

$108MSeries B
Participant
Healthleap

Healthleap develops clinical AI software that helps hospital teams identify patients needing further assessment.

$8MSeed
Lead
Quartermaster

Equips ships with sensor packages and analytics to create a distributed real-time maritime intelligence network

$140MSeries B equity + debt facility
Participant
Aranya

Aranya provides a multicluster operating system for AI GPU infrastructure, with clusterdOS as its open-source cluster engine.

$9MSeed
Lead
Ellis

AI-native operations platform for private credit

$10MSeed
Role not disclosed