Abstraction Capital

Abstraction Capital is a venture capital firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, that specializes in providing early-stage funding, specifically pre-seed and seed round capital, to companies focused on developing technical tools and software infrastructure. The firm targets businesses that create developer tools, workflow automation solutions, and technologies that enhance software development processes. Abstraction Capital emphasizes investments in areas such as API-first architectures, low-code platforms, open-source initiatives, and observability tools. By supporting companies that enable a more modular and integrated approach to software development, Abstraction Capital aims to foster innovation in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.

Taylor Clauson

Managing Partner

12 past transactions

Quiltt

Seed Round in 2022
Quiltt enables financial innovators to access the best account aggregation and transaction enrichment providers through one lightweight integration and one simple contract. Our mission is to unlock the next wave of fintech innovation by removing technical and commercial barriers to build with financial data.

Single Origin

Seed Round in 2022
Today, while platforms like Snowflake/GCP/AWS unlock insights and exploration, the volume of pipelines, the complexity of infrastructure, and the increasing cost of computing are overwhelming data teams. Single Origin helps data-driven organizations boost team productivity while realizing cloud cost savings. Our unique query optimization platform, operating between data warehouse and data tools/applications, automatically analyzes all of an organization's queries; identifies expensive and inefficient ones; then optimizes queries to be 10X simpler, faster and cheaper. We are the team that built and scaled uMetric at Uber, as well as other data infrastructure tools across snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft. More at https://docs.singleorigin.tech/

Athenian

Seed Round in 2022
Athenian is a platform that helps engineering leaders leverage insights and align teams with company goals. Modern engineering leaders that use Athenian know that continuous improvement is not about individual metrics but about building a shared understanding of where they can improve in teams, codebases, workflows, processes, and tooling.

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2022
DevOps-as-a-Service is our unique take on continuous delivery that aims to do more than deploy a single microservice to a container platform. Armed with an understanding of your system's dependency graph, Architect automates the deployment of distributed services, configures secure network policies, and enables on-demand stacks across all of your environments. DevOps-as-a-Service unlocks the potential of cloud-native developers and by supporting our over-worked and under-staffed DevOps teams.

Parabeac

Seed Round in 2021
Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX.

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

Seed Round in 2020
Buf assists teams in working with Protocol Buffers APIs throughout their lifecycle, whether they are creating a new API for a key customer or relying on one exposed by another team. It makes it simple to create and distribute consistent APIs. Buf is used by users to lint and detect breaking changes in the schema evolution, thereby protecting users.

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

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Buf assists teams in working with Protocol Buffers APIs throughout their lifecycle, whether they are creating a new API for a key customer or relying on one exposed by another team. It makes it simple to create and distribute consistent APIs. Buf is used by users to lint and detect breaking changes in the schema evolution, thereby protecting users.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that develops software that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data. It connects the customer data from the site or app to marketing and analytics tools. It also automates tedious work so engineering can focus on the product. Freshpaint is capable of integrating marketing and analytics tools with one click. The platform helps product, data, and growth teams set up the customer behavioral data they need to build a better product, drive engagement, and improve retention. The company was co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons.

Parabeac

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX.
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