1517 Fund
Venture Capital
Founded by Thiel Fellowship cofounders, backs dropouts, renegades, and sci-fi scientists at extreme inception stage.
San Francisco, United States · 27+ investments · 16 portfolio companies
Pre-Seed
Seed
Deep Tech
Hardware
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Website
- 1517fund.com
- AUM
- $175.0M
- Portfolio Companies
- 16
- Total Investments
- 27
- Last Investment
- Sep 2025
- Geographic Focus
- United States
Investment Thesis
Backs dropouts, renegades, and sci-fi scientists at extreme inception stages with micro-grants ($1k+), pre-seed ($50k-$1M), and seed investments. Focuses on makers, hackers, deep tech, and biotech.
1517 Fund is a Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, United States. It has made 27 investments in Deep Tech and Hardware, including Positron, Deepgram and Solcoa Industries.
Portfolio16
Investment History
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