Taylor Clauson

Taylor Clauson is the Managing Partner at Abstraction Capital, operating a solo venture capital fund headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an operations base in Kansas City. Before establishing his current firm, he worked in state-backed technology investing and scaled an early-stage cleantech startup to millions in annual revenue. His earlier career also included roles focused on Internet of Things and data investments. Despite lacking a formal background as a professional engineer, Clauson taught himself to code while working in the venture capital industry to better evaluate technical products. He now writes pre-seed and seed checks into technical developer product companies, while also participating in Series A and Series B funding rounds. Clauson primarily targets the underlying infrastructure of software, focusing his investments on artificial intelligence, developer tools, financial technology, and enterprise SaaS platforms.