Weekend Fund

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Feb 2, 2026	Linkup	$10.0M Seed	Gradient	Alex Bouaziz, Arthur Mensch, Axeleo Capital, Elaia, Florian Douetteau, Leblon Capital, Motier Ventures, Olivier Pomel, OPRTRS CLUB, Seedcamp, Shuo Wang
Oct 1, 2025	Magic	$10.0M Seed	—	Aglae Ventures, Jana Messerschmidt, C2 Investment, Earl Grey Capital, Hyper, Innovation Endeavors, KRM Interests LLC, Lerer Hippeau, Northzone, Placeholder, Redpoint Ventures, Sarona Ventures, Seven Seven Six, The Hit Forge, Volt Capital, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Davenport, Ben Porterfield, Casey Neistat, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Guillermo Rauch, Paul Yacoubian, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Varsha Rao
Aug 1, 2025	Vulcan Elements	$65.0M Series A	—	Abstract Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, Scott Belsky
Jul 1, 2025	Docket	$500K Seed	—	AngelPad, BITKRAFT Ventures, BoxGroup, ENIAC Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Notion Capital, Pro Founders Capital, Shine Capital, Slow Ventures, The Finger Group, Y Combinator, Ben Lin, Eben Pagan, Scott Belsky
Jul 1, 2025	PlayerZero	$5.0M Seed	—	645 Ventures, 8VC, Abstract Ventures, Bennett Siegel, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Alt Capital, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Citi Ventures, Craft Ventures, DFJ, DST Global, Expa, Felicis Ventures, First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Foundation Capital, Foundry Group, Fuel Capital, Green Bay Ventures, Greylock, High Alpha, Intel Capital, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Maniv Mobility, Matrix, Maverick Capital, Nyca Partners, Radical Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, South Park Commons, SV Angel, Thayer Ventures, Thrive Capital, Toyota Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, WndrCo LLC, Y Combinator, Amjad Masad, Austin Ogilvie, Chris Bennett, Daniel Kan, Deborah Liu, DJ Patil, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Eric Futoran, Evan Moore, Fidji Simo, Guillaume Luccisano, Guillermo Rauch, Howie Liu, Jacob Kerzner, Jason Kay, Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Marc Benioff, Mark Pincus, Mike Abbott, Mike Liu, Mike Vernal, Nate Matherson, Nitay Joffe, Prescott Watson, Quinn Slack, Shishir Mehrotra, Stewart Butterfield, Tobias Lutke, Yan-David Erlich
Jun 1, 2025	Levelpath	$55.0M Series B	—	Adapt Ventures, AirAngels, Alumni Ventures, Authentic Ventures, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, BoxGroup, Browder Capital, Capital Factory, CapitalX, Fifth Wall, Foundation Capital, Infinite Niches, Kepler Operator’s Fund, NextView Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Offline Ventures, Paradox Capital, Pareto Holdings, Predictive VC, Redpoint Ventures, SRB Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Uncork Capital, Adam Guild, Akshay Kothari, Arash Ferdowsi, Cory Levy, Priyank Chandra, Quinn Slack, Rich Miner, Scot Wingo, Siqi Chen, Suhail Doshi
Jun 1, 2025	Amperos Health	$4.0M Seed	—	AirAngels, Benchmark, Uncork Capital, Akshay Kothari, Arash Ferdowsi, Siqi Chen, Suhail Doshi
Jun 1, 2025	Outset	$17.0M Series A	—	8VC, Adverb Ventures, Alt Capital, Antiportfolio Ventures, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Craft Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle Capital, Fuel Capital, Harlem Capital, LGF, Matrix, Soma Capital, Y Combinator, Daniel Kan, Guillaume Luccisano, Nate Matherson
May 1, 2025	Salmon Labs	$3.0M Seed	—	Bread and Butter Ventures, DeNA, i/o Ventures, Untapped Capital
Apr 1, 2025	Revel	$23.0M Series A	—	Abstract Ventures, Accel, Addition, Altimeter Capital, Blossom Capital, C2 Investment, Felicis Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Lux Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures, Amjad Masad, Dylan Field, Gokul Rajaram, Scott Belsky
Mar 1, 2025	Breaker	$1.0M Seed	—	Main Sequence Ventures
Mar 1, 2025	Campus	$46.0M Series B	—	8VC, 9Yards Capital, Kevin Hartz, AIX Ventures, Basecase Capital, C2 Investment, Draper Associates, DTCP, Eclipse Ventures, Factorial, First Round Capital, Flex Capital, Founders Fund, Gaingels, Hoxton Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, IVP, K2 Global, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Maven Ventures, Quantum Angels Venture Capital, Rethink Impact, Saga, Scribble Ventures, Stellation Capital, Structure Capital, Symbolic Capital, The Hit Forge, Uncork Capital, Valhalla Ventures, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Amjad Masad, Balaji Srinivasan, Bob Muglia, Dustin Moskovitz, Dylan Field, Emil Michael, Eric Wei, Evan Cheng, George Burke, Jason Citron, Jeff Bezos, Karim Atiyeh, Mattia Astori, Peter Sonsini, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Shane Neman, Stanley Druckenmiller, Stephen Cole, Tobias Lutke, Tom Blaisdell, Yann LeCun
Mar 1, 2025	Truffle AI	$500K Seed	—	8VC, Adverb Ventures, Alt Capital, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Craft Ventures, First Round Capital, Fuel Capital, LGF, Matrix, Y Combinator, Daniel Kan, Guillaume Luccisano, Nate Matherson
Mar 1, 2025	Arcade	$25.0M Series A	—	5AM Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Accolade Partners, Acrew Capital, Act One Ventures, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Altimeter Capital, Alumni Ventures, American Express Ventures, AngelCube, Jana Messerschmidt, ATX Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Adeyemi Ajao, Canaan Partners, Company Capital, CP Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Foundation Capital, Greylock, Homebrew, Index Ventures, Inspired Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Klossy, Offline Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Owl Ventures, Pantera Capital, Pioneer Fund, Precursor Ventures, RevTech Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sound Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, The General Partnership, Torch Capital, Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Amjad Masad, Emanuel Pleitez, Evan Williams, Fareed Mosavat, Gokul Rajaram, Jeffrey Wilke, Joanne Bradford, John Legend, Jonathan Widawski, Marissa Mayer, Mathilde Collin, Scott Belsky, Stewart Butterfield
Feb 1, 2025	Valid	$6.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Antiportfolio Ventures, Canaan Partners, Divergent Capital, General Catalyst, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Lightbank, Long Journey Ventures, NEO, Saxena Capital, Ali Moiz, Chris Smoak, Claire Hughes Johnson, George Burke, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Vivek Garipalli
Feb 1, 2025	Presto	$15.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Felicis Ventures, Infinite Niches, Jetstream, N49P Ventures, Openview Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Union Square Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Dylan Field, Julia Hartz
Feb 1, 2025	Eudia	$110.0M Series A	—	9Yards Capital, Afore Capital, Basecase Capital, Browder Capital, Celesta, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Everywhere Ventures (The Fund), Factorial, General Catalyst, Hoxton Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, LGF, LvlUp Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Osney Capital, Penglan, Quake Capital, ScOp Venture Capital, Stellation Capital, Symbolic Capital, Uncork Capital, Akshay Kothari, Alex Oppenheimer, Andrew Steinwold, Evan Cheng, George Burke, Nitay Joffe
Feb 1, 2025	Reservoir	$14.0M Series A	—	Abstract Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Insight Partners, Square Peg Capital, TLV Partners, Union Square Ventures, Vine Ventures LP, Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, Scott Belsky
Feb 1, 2025	Vigil	$1.0M Seed	—	Cambrian Ventures, M25
Feb 1, 2025	Baseten	$75.0M Series C	—	01 Advisors, 9Yards Capital, Abstract Ventures, Acrew Capital, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, B8, Bain Capital Ventures, basecase capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Binary Capital, Bond, C2 Investment, Conviction Partners, Factorial, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Greylock, Sangeen Zeb, Hoxton Ventures, Infinite Capital, IVP, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Scott Sandell, NewView Capital, Pioneer Fund, Plaid, Predictive VC, Qiming Venture Partners, Race Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, South Park Commons, Spark Capital, Stellation Capital, Symbolic Capital, Jarrod Dicker, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Charles Zedlewski, Cristina Cordova, DJ Patil, Dylan Field, Evan Cheng, George Burke, Greg Brockman, Peter Reinhardt, Ron Pragides, Scott Belsky, Will Gaybrick, Zachary Sims
Jan 1, 2025	Justpoint	$45.0M Series A	—	Lightbank, Right Side Capital Management, 01 Advisors, 9Yards Capital, AAF Management Ltd., Afore Capital, AirAngels, Akshay Kothari, Ali Moiz, Andreessen Horowitz, Antiportfolio Ventures, Backed VC, Basecamp Fund, Basecase Capital, Bradley Horowitz, Brainchild, Brendan O'Driscoll, Chris Smoak, CrunchFund, Divergent Capital, Evan Cheng, Factorial, Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Collective, George Burke, Hoxton Ventures, Incisive Ventures, KW Angel Fund, LGF, Long Journey Ventures, Mario Gabriele, Matteo Franceschetti, Matthew Dellavedova, Moshe Lifschitz, Pioneer Square Labs, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Shrug Capital, Stellation Capital, Supernode Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Uncork Capital, Vivek Garipalli, VZVC, Wave Capital, What If Ventures
Dec 1, 2024	Mainframe	$6.0M Seed	—	50 Partners, 9Yards Capital, AI4ALL, Alumni Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, basecase capital, Basecase Capital, Cambrian Ventures, Factorial, Flexcap, General Catalyst, Greylock, Hoxton Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, NEO, Otherwise Fund, Outrun Ventures, Stellar Capital, Stellation Capital, Symbolic Capital, Uncork Capital, Unusual Ventures, Vibe Capital, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Amjad Masad, Evan Cheng, George Burke, Gokul Rajaram, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kenneth Griffin, Kevin Weil, Kyle Vogt, Ron Pragides, Scott Belsky, Thibaud Elziere, Thomas Dohmke, Vishal Rao, William Levy
Dec 1, 2024	Riverside	$30.0M Series C	—	AngelPad, BITKRAFT Ventures, BoxGroup, ENIAC Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Klossy, Notion Capital, Pro Founders Capital, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Shine Capital, Slow Ventures, The Finger Group, Y Combinator, Ben Lin, Eben Pagan, John Legend, Scott Belsky
Nov 1, 2024	Cytonic	$8.0M Seed	—	AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Archetype, Audacity, Awesome People Ventures, Battery Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, CoinFund, Divergence Ventures, Electric Ant, Electric Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, Hack VC, Hashed, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kearny Jackson, Kleiner Perkins, M34 Capital, Makers Fund, Nascent, Not Boring Capital, Robot Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, SID Venture Partners, Solana Ventures, Sound Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Version One Ventures, WPP Ventures, Adam Jackson, Alex Pack, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Alice Lloyd George, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Balaji Srinivasan, Biz Stone, Bo Shao, Brad Holden, David Nage, Do Kwon, Eric Wu, Imran Khan, Jeff Morris, Jess Sloss, Luis Cuende, Nathaniel Whittemore, Rene Reinsberg, Scott Belsky, Sina Habibi, Stani Kulechov, Steve Weinstein, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Tyler Scott Ward
Sep 1, 2024	Distyl AI	$20.0M Series A	—	Aglae Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Jana Messerschmidt, C2 Investment, Earl Grey Capital, FirstHand Alliance, Hyper, Innovation Endeavors, KRM Interests LLC, Lerer Hippeau, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Placeholder, Redpoint Ventures, Sarona Ventures, Seven Seven Six, The Hit Forge, Volt Capital, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Davenport, Ben Porterfield, Casey Neistat, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Paul Yacoubian, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Varsha Rao

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Leadership Team

Key people at Weekend Fund.

Leadership Team

Key people at Weekend Fund.

Deep Dive

Weekend Fund is an early-stage venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making pre-seed and seed investments, typically writing checks between $100K and $300K into startups worldwide across consumer and B2B sectors. Their mission centers on partnering with founders who have strong visions and unique insights, especially those capitalizing on shifts in consumer behavior or technology. Weekend Fund supports founders beyond capital by providing expertise in product development, community building, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, leveraging a network of over 350 operator and founder limited partners (LPs) to add value to their portfolio companies[1][3][5].

Founded by Ryan Hoover, the creator of Product Hunt, Weekend Fund aims to discover and back the next generation of high-performing startups early, often before traditional seed rounds. The fund emphasizes investing alongside builders who actively shape the future, reflecting Hoover’s own experience balancing building and investing. This approach has led to early investments in breakout companies like Deel, illustrating their ability to identify fast-growing startups. Weekend Fund’s impact on the startup ecosystem lies in its unique model of combining capital with operational support and a strong community of experienced founders and operators, helping startups scale effectively[1][3].

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Origin Story

Weekend Fund was founded over seven years ago by Ryan Hoover, who previously founded Product Hunt and authored *Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products*. Hoover’s background as a product manager and his passion for technology and behavioral psychology shaped his approach to investing. The fund’s name reflects Hoover’s early practice of investing on weekends while leading Product Hunt. Vedika Jain joined as a key partner, and together they have evolved the fund’s focus to include not only pre-seed and seed investments but also opportunistic investments between rounds, such as post-seed and pre-Series A[1][3].

The fund’s early success includes backing Deel, a multi-billion dollar company, which validated their thesis of investing in founders with unique market insights. Weekend Fund has grown into a distributed team supported by a large network of operators and founders, emphasizing a collaborative investment approach that blends capital with strategic support[1][3].

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Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Weekend Fund empowers each Weekend Partner with $1M to invest, splitting carry 50/50, fostering a decentralized but aligned investment approach driven by operators and founders themselves[1].
Network Strength: Backed by 350+ operator and founder LPs from leading tech companies like Stripe and Figma, providing portfolio companies with unparalleled access to expertise and connections[1][4].
Track Record: Early investments in high-growth startups such as Deel demonstrate their ability to identify and support breakout companies at the earliest stages[1].
Operating Support: Beyond capital, Weekend Fund offers hands-on help with product strategy, community building, and GTM execution, guided by partners with deep operational experience[5].
Founder-Centric Philosophy: Focus on founders with a bias toward action and unique market insights rather than traditional resume-based criteria[3].

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Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Weekend Fund rides the trend of democratizing early-stage venture capital by involving experienced operators and founders as active investors, which aligns with the increasing importance of community and network effects in startup success. The timing is favorable due to the rapid pace of technological change and shifts in consumer behavior, creating fertile ground for startups that can capitalize on these dynamics. By focusing on pre-seed and seed stages globally, Weekend Fund influences the ecosystem by providing early capital and operational guidance that helps startups navigate initial growth challenges and scale efficiently. Their model also reflects a broader movement toward more collaborative and founder-friendly venture capital practices[1][3][4].

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Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Weekend Fund is poised to continue expanding its network of operator-investors and deepen its support for early-stage founders, potentially increasing its influence in shaping future technology trends. As consumer behaviors and technologies evolve rapidly, the fund’s emphasis on founders with unique insights positions it well to identify disruptive innovations early. Trends such as decentralized finance, AI-driven consumer products, and new enterprise software paradigms may shape their investment focus. Weekend Fund’s collaborative and founder-centric approach could serve as a model for venture capital firms aiming to blend capital with operational expertise, reinforcing its role as a key player in the early-stage investment landscape[1][3][5].

This forward-looking perspective ties back to Weekend Fund’s founding ethos: investing in what the smartest builders fund on weekends today to become the mainstream technologies everyone uses during the week tomorrow[1].

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Origin Story

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Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Weekend Fund empowers each Weekend Partner with $1M to invest, splitting carry 50/50, fostering a decentralized but aligned investment approach driven by operators and founders themselves[1].
Network Strength: Backed by 350+ operator and founder LPs from leading tech companies like Stripe and Figma, providing portfolio companies with unparalleled access to expertise and connections[1][4].
Track Record: Early investments in high-growth startups such as Deel demonstrate their ability to identify and support breakout companies at the earliest stages[1].
Operating Support: Beyond capital, Weekend Fund offers hands-on help with product strategy, community building, and GTM execution, guided by partners with deep operational experience[5].
Founder-Centric Philosophy: Focus on founders with a bias toward action and unique market insights rather than traditional resume-based criteria[3].

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Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

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