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 (52% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $27.8M (across 21 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
18
Fund Size
$175M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
23 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Reprogram Biosciences | Seed | $6M | Jan 2025 |
 Ceragen | Seed | $2M | Jul 2024 |
 JobPixel | Seed | $3.4M | Mar 2024 |
 Lambda | Series C | $320M | Feb 2024 |
 Current Surgical | Seed | $3.2M | Feb 2023 |
 HelloWoofy | Unknown | $856K | Jan 2023 |
| JobPixel | Seed | — | Feb 2022 |
 Space Perspective | Series A | $40M | Oct 2021 |
 Presso | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Dec 2020 |
 Luminar | Series D | $100M | Jul 2019 |
 Fleet | Seed | $4M | Apr 2016 |
 Laminar | Seed | $6.8M | — |
| Luminar | Series B | $36M | — |
| Presso | Series A | $10M | — |
 Somnium Space | Series A | $10M | — |
 Astrus | Seed | $8M | — |
 Corner | Unknown | $3.8M | — |
| Presso | Seed | $8M | — |
 Vienna Hypertext | Unknown | $2.3M | — |
 Workmade | Seed | $7.5M | — |
| 2222 | Seed | $2.5M | — |
| 2222 | Pre-Seed | — | — |
 Miist Therapeutics | Seed | $7M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Pathbreaker Ventures3 shared
AME Cloud Ventures3 shared
Canvas Prime2 shared
HAX2 shared
Uncork Capital2 shared
Cherubic Ventures2 shared
SOSV2 shared
YETI Capital2 shared
Stonks2 shared
General Catalyst2 shared
Techstars1 shared
2048 Ventures1 shared
Flybridge Capital Partners1 shared
Construct Venture1 shared
Volvo Cars Tech Fund1 shared
G2 Venture Partners1 shared
The Westly Group1 shared
Moore Strategic Ventures1 shared
Corning1 shared
Raga Partners1 shared
Last updated: 9 September 2026