Employees: 1-10
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 50
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 22.02.2023 | Current Su... | currentsurgical.com | $3.2M | United Sta... |
| 12.05.2022 | WorkMade | workmade.com | $1.9M | United Sta... |
| 31.01.2022 | Trilobio | trilo.bio | - | United Sta... |
| 26.10.2021 | Challenger... | getchallenger.com | - | United Sta... |
| 01.07.2021 | Inaru Vall... | inaruvalley.com | - | - |
| 27.05.2021 | CalWave Po... | calwave.energy | - | United Sta... |
| 23.05.2021 | Topple | wearetopple.com | - | United Sta... |
| 23.05.2021 | Upkeep | upkeepbeauty.com | $2M | - |
| 22.05.2021 | Symba | symba.io | - | United Sta... |
| 22.05.2021 | H2Ok Innov... | h2okinnovations.com | - | United Sta... |
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Persons 4
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Nick | Arnett | - | linkedin.c... | - | n**k@1517f... | - |
| - | Shea | Tate-Di Do... | Advisor | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@1517f... | - |
| - | Danielle | Strachman | Founder an... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | - |
| - | Michael Pa... | Gibson | Founder an... | linkedin.c... | - | m*****l@15... | - |
News 26
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.04.2022 | 1517 Summit: Escape from Captivity | Nearly 10 years ago, I was having lunch with Danielle at a restaurant in Mountain View. It was the first time I'd met her in person; I was a Thiel Fellowship applicant that year but only made it through a few selection rounds before I recei... |
| 28.03.2022 | 1517 Medici Project | Belief capital encourages taking the leap into the unknown. It's when someone you respect puts their resources (this could be money, time, reputation, etc.) on the line before others recognize you as someone deemed worthy of their support. ... |
| 08.09.2021 | What Pre-Seed Means in 2021 | When Michael and Danielle founded 1517 Fund in 2015, we were pretty firmly a seed fund. In the six short years since then, the market changed so much that without any major changes in strategy or distribution, 1517 became a pre-seed fund (w... |
| 25.08.2021 | Don't Let Your Cap Kill You | (This post was originally published on February 17, 2019 on Medium.) I’m going to dive in with some quick advice about valuation caps on convertible notes and SAFEs. But this is a great primer to start with. A founder wrote to me this wee... |
| 09.08.2021 | Announcing 1517 Fund Investment: Upkeep | We're thrilled to be supporting Tiffany Faith Demers in her building Upkeep. Upkeep is a vertical SaaS solution for MedSpas to help them better book, organize, and solicit clients for a variety of services. Like Opentable for restaurants,... |
| 28.07.2021 | How Not to Sabotage Yourself as a Young Non-Conformist | We will update this document with new tips and links to Ask 1517 posts giving detailed examples and insight on social behavior in Silicon Valley and startups in general. This culture guide outlines some habits and behaviors that will help ... |
| 23.06.2021 | Moving Ahead: Post-Investment and Founder Pitfalls | There is a lot of focus out there on how to build relationships with VCs to raise money but there isn’t so much information out there about maintaining that relationship and common pitfalls in the earliest stages of a company once you’ve se... |
| 26.04.2021 | Chase the Steak, not the Sizzle: Earned Media | It can seem at times that one of the rites of passage for a growing startup is an article in a publication like TechCrunch. Founders may even proceed to place a "featured in" bar on the startup homepage and include bits and pieces... |
| 12.04.2021 | Playing the Long Game | Nick is the most quiet of us, at least externally, at 1517. But heâs one of those quiet but deadly types. Youâre not going to see him on Twitter much â he keeps a low profile, but heâs always insightful and thinking about the big pi... |
| 12.04.2021 | You can be rich, or you can be king, but you can't be both | At 1517 we work with founders on most of their firsts. First hires, first contract negotiations, first real office -- but it starts much earlier than that. One of the things we encounter a lot is first fundraise and first founding team. Wh... |
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Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.10.2024 | Cancer-fighting Houston lab led by Nobel laureate receives $5M grant at annual event | The James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center scored a $5 million gift at its second annual symposium. On behalf of Mayor John Whitmire, Oct. 10, 2024 was named “James P. Allison Institute Day,” and it ... |
| 29.07.2024 | Marathon Fusion: $5.9 Million Closed To Develop Fuel Processing Technology For The Fusion Industry | Marathon Fusion, a company developing fuel processing technology for the fusion industry, announced a fundraising effort led by 1517 Fund and Anglo American, with participation from Übermorgen Ventures, Shared Future Fund, Malcolm Handley, ... |
| 19.07.2024 | Без технологии компании Marathon будущие термоядерные электростанции, возможно, никогда не заработают | Сторонники ядерного синтеза давно обещают создать практически безграничную энергию на Земле, используя ту же реакцию, которая питает Солнце, сообщает TechCrunch. Сегодня самое большое препятствие для термоядерного синтеза заключается в том,... |
| 26.09.2023 | Procyon Photonics — The High School Run Start Up That Could Revolutionize Computing | Rendering of Procyon's Tachyon optical matrix processing unit chip.Procyon Photonics |
| 30.07.2023 | Peter Thiel paid staff an extra $1,000 a month if they lived close to the office so they were more likely to work late, book says | Peter Thiel liked workers to live close to the office, a book says. Marco Bello/Getty Images Redeem now Peter Thiel paid staff an extra $1,000 a month if they lived near the office, a former worker said. The billionaire investor offered it ... |
| 02.01.2020 | Lessons from the Community: To Bootstrap or to Fundraise? | Back in 2010, when Tom Lauwers took the dive and spun out his research at Carnegie Mellon University into a new STEM education company, BirdBrain Technologies LLC, he didn’t exactly have the personal wealth to fund his operation. “Some peop... |
| 13.04.2017 | Luminar reveals sensors that could make self-driving cars safer than human | Cameras help autonomous vehicles read street signs and the color of traffic lights. But LiDARs, aka light detection and ranging systems, do the important work of sensing and helping cars avoid obstacles, whether that’s a fallen tree, drunk ... |
| - | This Harvard dropout and her brother launched a company to conserve liquids in factories | Annie, 22, and David Lu, 25, launched and are now growing their own company, H2Ok Innovations, which uses a combination of hardware and software to improve the efficiency of manufacturing factories. They come from a family with generations-... |