First Round Capital

First Round Capital is a San Francisco-headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups from pre-seed through Series A. Since its founding in 2004, it has sought to build a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and support portfolio companies beyond capital through a suite of services, custom software, and in-person programs. The firm invests nationally and maintains offices in San Francisco and New York, often taking an active role in its companies. Typical initial investments are around $500,000, and it targets opportunities across enterprise, fintech, healthcare, consumer, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3 sectors. First Round emphasizes founder support and inclusive practices, including initiatives such as the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Meka Asonye

Partner

Hayley Barna

Partner

Brett Berson

VP, Platform

Jeffrey Donnon

CFO

Annie Duke

Special Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Crossmint

Venture Round in 2025
Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more.

fal

Series B in 2025
Generative Media Platform for Developers

David AI

Seed Round in 2025
David AI is a technology company that specializes in transforming audio data into valuable insights. It develops an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses manage and analyze multimodal data, enabling them to create high-quality, proprietary datasets for AI model training. The platform automates data labeling, qualifies and manages data quality, and generates metadata to track data origin and changes. This allows clients to enhance their AI models, detect and remove irrelevant or duplicated data, and create new revenue streams.

fal

Venture Round in 2024
Generative Media Platform for Developers

Unblocked

Seed Round in 2023
Trained on the systems developers use in their day-to-day workflow, Unblocked provides developers helpful answers to their questions about the codebase. Unblocked eliminates the time developers waste as they deal with interruptions, search for documents, and mine for answers.

Spline

Seed Round in 2023
Spline is a design tool that facilitates 3D and 2D modeling, specifically tailored for designers, developers, and teams engaged in digital projects. The platform allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on 3D designs directly within a web browser, supporting real-time collaboration for multiple users on the same project. Spline's capabilities enable the development of interactive 3D prototypes suitable for both web and mobile applications. The tool simplifies the design process by allowing the creation and publication of three-dimensional text and basic geometric shapes, while also providing options for importing models and editing materials. With versatile export functionalities, Spline ensures that designs can be easily shared across various platforms, enhancing usability and accessibility for its users.

Dynamic Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Dynamic Labs is a developer of a wallet-based authentication and authorization platform that facilitates the adoption of non-fungible token wallets. The platform enables developers to implement wallet-based login, onboarding, and authentication processes, while also allowing for the addition and removal of blockchain networks. It provides tools for information collection and the structuring of access lists and gates, empowering developers to create customized authentication and user management solutions for their clients. By focusing on multi-chain capabilities, Dynamic Labs aims to streamline and enhance the user experience in digital identity management.

Waldo

Series A in 2022
Waldo is a developer of mobile application testing software designed to simplify the testing process for iOS and Android applications. The company's platform allows mobile application teams to create, test, and visualize user flows in a single tool, facilitating the delivery of a consistent and high-quality user experience. By recording tests and replaying them against new application versions, Waldo helps developers identify and resolve issues efficiently, ultimately enabling faster product releases with fewer bugs. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Waldo also has a development office in Paris, France.

Coherence

Seed Round in 2021
Coherence is a software development company based in New York, founded in 2021. It focuses on enhancing the efficiency of software teams by providing a cloud deployment platform that streamlines the development to production process. The company offers an integrated toolkit that automates the development, deployment, and management of container-based full-stack web applications. This platform is designed to minimize friction in the development workflow, allowing developers to write, test, review, and deploy code from a single interface. By intuitively guiding developers to their cloud resources, Coherence reduces the time spent navigating multiple interfaces for logs and metrics, ultimately facilitating a more cohesive and productive development experience.

Coherence

Venture Round in 2021
Coherence is a software development company based in New York, founded in 2021. It focuses on enhancing the efficiency of software teams by providing a cloud deployment platform that streamlines the development to production process. The company offers an integrated toolkit that automates the development, deployment, and management of container-based full-stack web applications. This platform is designed to minimize friction in the development workflow, allowing developers to write, test, review, and deploy code from a single interface. By intuitively guiding developers to their cloud resources, Coherence reduces the time spent navigating multiple interfaces for logs and metrics, ultimately facilitating a more cohesive and productive development experience.

Spline

Seed Round in 2021
Spline is a design tool that facilitates 3D and 2D modeling, specifically tailored for designers, developers, and teams engaged in digital projects. The platform allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on 3D designs directly within a web browser, supporting real-time collaboration for multiple users on the same project. Spline's capabilities enable the development of interactive 3D prototypes suitable for both web and mobile applications. The tool simplifies the design process by allowing the creation and publication of three-dimensional text and basic geometric shapes, while also providing options for importing models and editing materials. With versatile export functionalities, Spline ensures that designs can be easily shared across various platforms, enhancing usability and accessibility for its users.

Spreadsheet.com

Seed Round in 2020
Spreadsheet.com is a no-code platform for building spreadsheet-based applications and project management solutions. It enables teams to turn spreadsheet data into custom, no-code apps that support managing projects, tasks, and goals. The platform reimagines spreadsheets for collaboration by offering views that display rows as cards in stacks grouped by status, responsibility, and other criteria, helping teams coordinate work and track progress without traditional coding.

Range

Seed Round in 2020
Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.

Range

Seed Round in 2017
Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.

Intrinsic

Seed Round in 2016
Intrinsic is a cybersecurity company that specializes in application runtime security technology for Node.js applications. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Intrinsic was previously known as GitStar. The company focuses on securing web applications, providing solutions to protect against vulnerabilities and threats in real-time. As of August 2019, Intrinsic operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Buddybuild

Series A in 2016
Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform designed to streamline the development process for iOS developers by integrating continuous integration, continuous delivery, and feedback solutions into a single cohesive system. The platform allows developers to set up their workflow in minutes, automatically triggering builds and tests with each code change. Testers can easily provide feedback and diagnostic details through a simple screenshot, facilitating quicker resolution of issues. By eliminating the need for disparate systems, Buddybuild enables mobile application developers to focus on creating high-quality apps while minimizing manual labor and complexity in their development processes.

Buddybuild

Seed Round in 2016
Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform designed to streamline the development process for iOS developers by integrating continuous integration, continuous delivery, and feedback solutions into a single cohesive system. The platform allows developers to set up their workflow in minutes, automatically triggering builds and tests with each code change. Testers can easily provide feedback and diagnostic details through a simple screenshot, facilitating quicker resolution of issues. By eliminating the need for disparate systems, Buddybuild enables mobile application developers to focus on creating high-quality apps while minimizing manual labor and complexity in their development processes.

Bloc

Series A in 2014
Bloc, Inc. is an online apprenticeship platform focused on teaching the fundamentals of web development, iOS, and web design. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides an intensive coding bootcamp experience that combines personalized 1-on-1 mentorship with a curriculum developed by industry experts. Students can select mentors based on their expertise, programming languages, geographic location, and availability, allowing for tailored learning experiences. Bloc aims to offer a more accessible and effective alternative to traditional offline bootcamps, enabling aspiring developers worldwide to build essential skills through guided assignments and practical application. As of 2018, Bloc operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

Pantheon Systems

Series B in 2014
Founded in 2010, Pantheon Systems provides a cloud-based platform for agile marketing teams and developers to build, launch, and manage WordPress and Drupal websites. Serving diverse industries such as media, technology, education, and government, the company enables efficient website development and management.

Bloc

Seed Round in 2013
Bloc, Inc. is an online apprenticeship platform focused on teaching the fundamentals of web development, iOS, and web design. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides an intensive coding bootcamp experience that combines personalized 1-on-1 mentorship with a curriculum developed by industry experts. Students can select mentors based on their expertise, programming languages, geographic location, and availability, allowing for tailored learning experiences. Bloc aims to offer a more accessible and effective alternative to traditional offline bootcamps, enabling aspiring developers worldwide to build essential skills through guided assignments and practical application. As of 2018, Bloc operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

FREEjit

Series A in 2010
FREEjit, Inc., established in 2010 and headquartered in Newport Beach, California, operates a unique online platform designed to leverage autocomplete technology for commercial purposes. The company aims to transform the familiar autocomplete feature found in search engines and browsers into a valuable service that can be marketed to various industries.

Pantheon Systems

Seed Round in 2010
Founded in 2010, Pantheon Systems provides a cloud-based platform for agile marketing teams and developers to build, launch, and manage WordPress and Drupal websites. Serving diverse industries such as media, technology, education, and government, the company enables efficient website development and management.

Pinch Media

Seed Round in 2008
Pinch Media is a New York-based startup that specializes in providing free tools for mobile application developers to enhance their business capabilities. The company's primary offering, Pinch Analytics, is a free analytics library designed to track key metrics essential for optimizing iPhone applications. Launched prior to the introduction of Apple's AppStore, Pinch Analytics has been integrated into numerous live iPhone applications, including many popular ones. The insights derived from millions of application downloads, accessible only through the installation of the Pinch Analytics library, enable developers to devise effective release and update strategies. Pinch Media has demonstrated its impact by helping developers achieve significant increases in application sales. Additionally, the company has established a partnership with JumpTap to facilitate the Pinch Advertising program, which delivers unobtrusive mobile advertisements from reputable brands for free, ad-supported applications. Pinch Media continues to welcome new clients for both its analytics and advertising services.

Krugle

Series B in 2006
Krugle is a technology company that specializes in providing a search engine tailored specifically for developers. This search engine enables computer programmers and other developers to efficiently locate open-source code within various repositories. In addition to its search capabilities, Krugle offers collaboration tools that facilitate interaction between developers and their source code, enhancing teamwork and productivity.

Krugle

Series A in 2005
Krugle is a technology company that specializes in providing a search engine tailored specifically for developers. This search engine enables computer programmers and other developers to efficiently locate open-source code within various repositories. In addition to its search capabilities, Krugle offers collaboration tools that facilitate interaction between developers and their source code, enhancing teamwork and productivity.

Unblocked

Trained on the systems developers use in their day-to-day workflow, Unblocked provides developers helpful answers to their questions about the codebase. Unblocked eliminates the time developers waste as they deal with interruptions, search for documents, and mine for answers.

David AI

David AI is a technology company that specializes in transforming audio data into valuable insights. It develops an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses manage and analyze multimodal data, enabling them to create high-quality, proprietary datasets for AI model training. The platform automates data labeling, qualifies and manages data quality, and generates metadata to track data origin and changes. This allows clients to enhance their AI models, detect and remove irrelevant or duplicated data, and create new revenue streams.
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