Employees: 1-10
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 51
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 29.07.2025 | Positron A... | positron.ai | $1.18B | United Sta... |
| 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 | $8M | 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 | - | - |
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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 | 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... |
| 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... |
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Mentions in press and media 27
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2026 | Positron AI Receives $875M Series C Round | RENO, NV, Positron AI, the AI inference hardware company built to make serving AI models dramatically cheaper and more energy efficient, has announced an $875 million Series C at a $5 billion post-money valuation. >> Click here for m... |
| 01.09.2026 | Aerospace startup Alteon raises $2.5 million to build an aircraft that can fly for months without landing | Alteon, a Bengaluru-based aerospace startup, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Lachy Groom, with participation from Together Fund. Advertisment The startup said the round follows a recent flight test in which its aircraft f... |
| 21.07.2026 | A startup building a social alternative to Google Maps for Gen Z raised $7.5 million | Finding a really good restaurant or bar takes effort. Corner, a startup looking to make that process easier, has raised more capital to stake its claim in the map game. Corner, which was founded in 2022, is a social-mapping app targeting Ge... |
| 08.07.2026 | This 12-year-old founder created an AI-powered receptionist to help small businesses build clientele | For proof that AI is enabling a new generation of founders, look no further than Mana Jampala. Jampala, who is in British Columbia, is the 12-year-old founder behind the AI-powered receptionist Voxa. She launched the product in November 202... |
| 30.06.2026 | Arcturus Raises $8M in Seed Funding | Arcturus, a Los Angeles, California-based developer of carbon-infused advanced conductor materials, emerged from stealth mode after securing $8m in seed funding. The round, which brought the total capital raised to $10m, was led by Initiali... |
| 29.05.2026 | Reprogram Biosciences Closes Seed Funding | Reprogram Biosciences, a San Carlos, CA-based preclinical oncology biotechnology company, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding. The raised brought the total amount to $6M. Backers included Unshackled Ventures, 1517 Fund, and Narya. ... |
| 10.09.2025 | Astrus: $8 Million Raised To Transform Analog Chip Design With Physics-Aware AI | Astrus, a Toronto and Waterloo-based AI startup, has secured $8 million in funding to accelerate development of its physics-aware foundation model for analog chip design. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Pradeep... |
| 03.08.2025 | Figma CEO’s path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire | With Figma more than tripling in its NYSE debut this week, CEO Dylan Field’s stake in the company is worth about $6.6 billion. Field dropped out of Brown University and entered the Thiel Fellowship program over a decade ago. “Dylan is, by f... |
| 31.07.2025 | Positron Rises: A New Era for AI Inference Chips | Positron directly challenges Nvidia in AI inference chips. It offers energy-efficient, memory-optimized hardware. Atlas, its current chip, slashes power consumption and costs for enterprise AI. Titan, launching 2026, targets future superint... |
| 30.07.2025 | Positron AI: $51.6 Million Raised For Transforming GenAI With High-Performance Compute Systems | Positron AI, a leader in American-made semiconductors and inference hardware, announced the closing of a $51.6 million oversubscribed Series A round, raising over $75 million this year. Led by Valor Equity, Atreides Management, and DFJ Grow... |
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