Abstraction Capital

Abstraction Capital is a venture capital firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, that focuses on providing pre-seed and seed funding to early-stage companies. The firm specializes in investing in software companies that develop technical tools, including those that are API-first, low-code, and open source. It targets businesses that enhance developer productivity and improve software infrastructure, particularly in areas such as workflow automation, observability, and DevOps. As the software landscape shifts from monolithic architectures to a network of loosely integrated tools, Abstraction Capital aims to support innovative solutions that streamline the development, deployment, and performance measurement of software.

Taylor Clauson

Managing Partner

9 past transactions

Single Origin

Seed Round in 2022
Single Origin is a platform for defining, discovering, and consuming metrics and ML features. It sits in between your data warehouse, data lake, and applications. It is a place for data operators to collaborate, as well as a single source of truth for building integrations across tools. Data operators of any skill level, from builders to consumers, can use Single Origin to: * define metrics and features such that each definition is clear and automatically checked for uniqueness * share and explore definitions via UI and API * automate quality checks and governance so that data can be consumed with confidence

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2022
Architect.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a platform designed for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in facilitating collaboration among teams through its unique DevOps-as-a-Service model, which integrates deployment, networking, and security automation. The platform enables users to streamline processes by providing end-to-end deployment capabilities for complex systems, with a focus on managing the interactions between related microservices.

Parabeac

Seed Round in 2021
Parabeac is a software infrastructure that helps hardware startups facilitate their mobile experience.

Octane

Seed Round in 2021
Octane is a metered billing system that helps vendors create a plan, monitor usage, and charge.

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.

Parabeac

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Parabeac is a software infrastructure that helps hardware startups facilitate their mobile experience.