First Round Capital

Seed-stage venture capital firm

First Round is a venture capital firm working with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all that exists is an idea. It fills in where it can until a team is assembled, taking on crucial early hiring and equipping people who are strong at building product with the surrounding skills a company needs. Working only at that stage is a deliberate constraint: the support required at formation is different in kind from what a growing company needs.