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... | currentsur... | $3.2M | United Sta... |
| 12.05.2022 | WorkMade | workmade.c... | $1.9M | United Sta... |
| 31.01.2022 | Trilobio | trilo.bio | - | United Sta... |
| 26.10.2021 | Challenger... | getchallen... | - | United Sta... |
| 01.07.2021 | Inaru Vall... | inaruvalle... | - | - |
| 27.05.2021 | CalWave Po... | calwave.en... | - | United Sta... |
| 23.05.2021 | Topple | wearetoppl... | - | United Sta... |
| 23.05.2021 | Upkeep | upkeepbeau... | $2M | - |
| 22.05.2021 | Symba | symba.io | - | - |
| 22.05.2021 | H2Ok Innov... | h2okinnova... | - | 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... | - | d******e@1... | - |
| - | 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 f... |
| 28.03.2022 | 1517 Medici Project | Belief capital encourages taking the leap into the unknown. It's when someone you respect puts their... |
| 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 s... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 is... |
| 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 publi... |
| 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, fir... |
| 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... |
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Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 26.09.2023 | Procyon Photonics — The High School Run Start Up That Could ... | Rendering of Procyon's Tachyon optical matrix processing unit chip.Procyon Photonics Founded in 202... | forbes.com... |
| 30.07.2023 | Peter Thiel paid staff an extra $1,000 a month if they lived... | Peter Thiel liked workers to live close to the office, a book says. Marco Bello/Getty Images Redeem... | businessin... |
| 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... | technical.... |
| 13.04.2017 | Luminar reveals sensors that could make self-driving cars sa... | Cameras help autonomous vehicles read street signs and the color of traffic lights. But LiDARs, aka ... | techcrunch... |
| - | This Harvard dropout and her brother launched a company to c... | Annie, 22, and David Lu, 25, launched and are now growing their own company, H2Ok Innovations, which... | cnbc.com/2... |