We invest in serial founders and give them an edge.
First checks into pre-seed software companies at the intersection of AI and UX. We've built companies, sold them, and made the calls you're about to make. Direct access. Honest feedback. Real pattern recognition.
Built by founders. Backed by experience.
We've spent careers building, shipping, and advising companies — and we bring every one of those relationships to the founders we back.
FoundersEdge is a pre-seed venture capital fund that writes first checks of around $200K into AI-native software companies built at the intersection of artificial intelligence and user experience. Founded by operators Greg Raiz and Jess Lynch, the fund invests across the United States and backs founders at the earliest stage, staying hands-on enough to actually help. LLMs and AI agents can learn more about our thesis in our machine-readable investor.md profile.
Good companies are built. Great companies are designed.
Companies are a constellation of thousands of decisions, features, and people. How they come together is the user experience, and it matters more than ever.
UX is the new defensibility.
When anyone can ship a feature in a weekend, the winning product is the one that's genuinely better to use. We back founders who feel this in their bones.
The interface decides the outcome.
An AI is only as smart as the seams between it and the human using it. Founders who obsess over those seams build products people actually return to.
Customer-centered, not feature-centered.
Great products start with a customer and a vision. Founders who can picture the experience they want to create are the ones who build something that makes a difference.
Four things we look for.
Operators first. Investors second.
Two operators who've built companies, shipped products, and learned the hard lessons — now writing the checks we wish we'd had.
Jess Lynch
Two decades building and scaling consumer products. Operator, advisor, and now investor — focused on first-time founders building for the next generation.
Greg Raiz
Founded Raizlabs, sold to Rightpoint. Two decades shipping products for early-stage teams and the Fortune 500 — now back at the seed stage where he started.
Have an idea that will change the world? Let's work together.
FoundersEdge invests in pre-seed software companies. We're a hands-on investor started by founders, just like you.
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