Abstraction Capital

Abstraction Capital, established in 2020 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is an early-stage venture capital firm. It specializes in investing in pre-seed or seed rounds for software companies developing technical tools, APIs, and infrastructure that enhance developer productivity and streamline software workflows. The firm's portfolio includes companies building open-source tools, low-code platforms, and solutions for software observability and DevOps.

Taylor Clauson

Managing Partner

18 past transactions

Wasp

Seed Round in 2025
Wasp is a programming language for building full-stack web applications. Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. The company was founded by Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic in 2020 and is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

dScribe AI

Pre Seed Round in 2025
dScribe AI is a technology company that specializes in video analysis. It offers a SaaS platform which automatically analyzes online videos using only their links. The platform provides visual summaries, insights, and transcriptions, enabling clients to extract valuable business insights such as market trends, customer sentiment, and brand mentions. It caters to a wide range of clients, from developers seeking to integrate social media analysis into their apps, to businesses aiming to understand their audience better, and enterprises requiring mass brand protection.

Athenic AI

Seed Round in 2025
Athenic AI is a data analytics platform focused on delivering critical insights rapidly. The company specializes in intuitive data infrastructure and unification, enabling the creation of pipelines that effectively measure business performance. By leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, Athenic AI provides accurate predictions and analytical solutions. Its platform also facilitates the sharing of dashboards, allowing clients to visualize results effortlessly and address business challenges with timely and precise data-driven insights.

Notika AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Notika AI specializes in providing an AI-driven, database-integrated notification platform tailored for fast-paced startups. Their core product is a no-code notification tool that seamlessly integrates with databases, enabling businesses to swiftly add automated email notifications to their applications. This enhances user engagement and streamlines communication processes, all without requiring extensive coding or setup time.

Digma

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2022, Digma is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It specializes in a continuous feedback platform that automatically identifies and resolves real-time performance issues in high-transaction volume companies. The platform provides insights to improve code efficiency, meet service level objectives (SLOs), and prepare services for scale.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Quiltt

Seed Round in 2022
Quiltt streamlines fintech innovation by offering a single integration point for accessing top-tier account aggregation and transaction enrichment services. This enables financial innovators to focus on product differentiation while Quiltt handles the complexities of data sourcing.

Single Origin

Seed Round in 2022
Single Origin empowers data-driven organizations by optimizing cloud query performance. Its platform analyzes queries between data warehouses and tools, identifying inefficient ones for optimization, resulting in up to 10x improvement in simplicity, speed, and cost. The team has previously built and scaled data infrastructure tools at companies like Uber, Snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Athenian

Seed Round in 2022
Athenian is a software platform designed for engineering leaders, enabling them to enhance team alignment and drive continuous improvement within their organizations. By quantifying bottlenecks and measuring growth, Athenian's tools provide insights into workflows, processes, and productivity challenges. The platform helps users identify key success indicators, optimize software delivery, and improve communication across teams. Athenian focuses on fostering a shared understanding among team members, moving beyond individual metrics to create a collaborative environment that encourages ongoing development and efficiency. Through its innovative solutions, Athenian supports organizations in building a culture of continuous improvement, ultimately contributing to greater profitability and operational effectiveness.

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Architect.io offers a platform for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in automating end-to-end deployments of complex systems by networking related microservices securely.

Parabeac

Seed Round in 2021
Parabeac provides a design-to-code automation platform for app development teams. The company develops a continuous design and integration tool that automates code conversion, aligning design and development workflows to accelerate application delivery. By automatically merging design changes into the development environment, the platform helps teams capture architecture preferences and export code as needed, reducing manual handoffs and latency between design and engineering. The solution focuses on streamlining UI/UX-to-code translation, enabling faster iterations and more consistent implementations across platforms.

Wasp

Seed Round in 2021
Wasp is a programming language for building full-stack web applications. Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. The company was founded by Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic in 2020 and is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

Octane

Seed Round in 2021
Usage-based billing platform that enables businesses to accurately and efficiently monetize their product a based on their customer's usage.

Buf Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

Hoss

Seed Round in 2020
Hoss is an enterprise software company that helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume. The company’s simple, easy-to-use solution gives teams full visibility into the third-party APIs they use, provides data privacy controls, and increases reliability and performance to make sure integrations are robust and applications run smoothly. It also delivers clear analytics on application errors and performance. Hoss was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, USA.

Buf Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Parabeac

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Parabeac provides a design-to-code automation platform for app development teams. The company develops a continuous design and integration tool that automates code conversion, aligning design and development workflows to accelerate application delivery. By automatically merging design changes into the development environment, the platform helps teams capture architecture preferences and export code as needed, reducing manual handoffs and latency between design and engineering. The solution focuses on streamlining UI/UX-to-code translation, enabling faster iterations and more consistent implementations across platforms.
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