1517 Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs dropouts, students, and sci-fi scientists at the earliest stages of their companies. It provides grant, pre-seed, and seed funding to makers, hackers, and scientists working outside tracked institutions.
Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $143.8M (across 42 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
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Fund Size
$175M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
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Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
44 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Arcturus | Seed | $8M | Jan 2026 |
| LLambda, Inc. | Series C | $3B | Jan 2026 |
 Lambda | Series E | $1.5B | Nov 2025 |
| LLambda, Inc. | Series D | $480M | Feb 2025 |
 Reprogram Biosciences | Seed | $6M | Jan 2025 |
 Ceragen | Seed | $2M | Jul 2024 |
| IImmuneAGE Bio | Unknown | $2M | Jul 2024 |
 Xona | Series A | $19M | May 2024 |
 JobPixel | Seed | $3.4M | Mar 2024 |
| Lambda | Series C | $320M | Feb 2024 |
| LLambda, Inc. | Series C | $320M | Jan 2024 |
 Current Surgical | Seed | $3.2M | Feb 2023 |
| PPresso Robotics | Seed | $8M | Jan 2023 |
 HelloWoofy | Unknown | $856K | Jan 2023 |
 Upkeep | Seed | $2M | Oct 2022 |
| JobPixel | Seed | — | Feb 2022 |
 Space Perspective | Series A | $40M | Oct 2021 |
| Lambda | Series A | $15M | Jan 2021 |
| Xona | Pre-Seed | $8M | Jan 2021 |
 Lambda | Series A | $35M | Jan 2021 |
 Presso | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Dec 2020 |
| Xona | Pre-Seed | $1M | May 2020 |
 Luminar | Series D | $100M | Jul 2019 |
 Fleet | Seed | $4M | Apr 2016 |
 Laminar | Seed | $6.8M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Pathbreaker Ventures5 shared
AME Cloud Ventures5 shared
Crescent Cove5 shared
Gradient Ventures5 shared
Bloomberg Beta5 shared
Mercato Partners5 shared
HAX4 shared
Uncork Capital4 shared
Cherubic Ventures4 shared
Gaingels4 shared
SOSV4 shared
YETI Capital4 shared
G Squared4 shared
Stellar Ventures4 shared
Refactor Capital3 shared
VSC Ventures3 shared
Korea Investment Partners3 shared
B Capital3 shared
SK Telecom3 shared
In-Q-Tel3 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026