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Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
189
117 of them startups
Hiring now
117
3,099 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
33
$2.7B raised
Exits
30
Focusshare of its companies
AI Agents 7%Marketplaces 3%Medical AI 3%Financial Software & Embedded Finance 2%Financial AI 2%Custom Software Development 2%AI Development Tools 2%E-learning 2%
Where its companies are
United States 74%United Kingdom 1%Ireland 1%Hong Kong 1%Norway 1%Canada 1%Spain 1%
Stage of its companies
Venture, series not stated 61%Series C and later 14%Series B 10%Series A 10%Pre-seed & seed 6%
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Overview

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an.

News

News firstround.com 30 days ago
Sales Combine First Round
Sales is an AI-proof job. AI makes human sellers matter more, not less. We'll get you ready for one of the fastest growing roles in tech.
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News First Round 5 months ago
Firsthand: How I Bet On Clay (And It Bet On Me)
I joined Clay as one of its earliest employees and a reluctant marketing hire. This is how, over the last three years, we built a role around my strengths as a storyteller, scaled past $100M ARR, and created a brand that startups study.
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News First Round 1 year ago
The Hard Way Pays Off: Inside Sierra's Design Partner Strategy
Instead of chasing low-friction pilots, Sierra asked design partners to pay, commit time and co-build - converting 100% of these partners into customers.
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News firstround.com 1 year ago
From Memo to Movement: Shopify's Cultural Adoption of AI First Round
The non-obvious insights, tactics and workflows Shopify used to bring an ambitious memo to life.
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News First Round 1 year ago
Should You
A veteran strategy and ops leader turned fractional COO walks us through why, when and how early-stage founders can tap fractional execs to learn and grow faster.
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News First Round 1 year ago
How to Build and Scale Onboarding
A tactical guide to onboarding - from the architect behind Superhuman's Gaurav Vohra, who built and scaled the program from scratch.
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News First Round 1 year ago
How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder
Levels founder Sam Corcos shares his detailed time-tracking data across 5 years of startup growth, revealing surprising insights about burnout, engineering management, strategic thinking, and balancing work with family life.
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News First Round 1 year ago
The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup's Engineers Learning - and Not Leaving
Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that's helped keep her org's non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.
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News Fortune 1 year ago
Exclusive: Fal, generative media platform for developers, raises $49 million Series B
Fal, generative media platform for developers, has raised a $49 million Series B, Fortune can exclusively report.
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News First Round 1 year ago
This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers
A former head of engineering-turned-developer lays out a plan to help engineering managers make a smooth transition back into the technical weeds.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at First Round over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
AI & ML
Claude
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$120k
Typical range
$120k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Architect 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Architect 1 $120k $120k
Highest paying role Founding GTM $120k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $120k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
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San Francisco United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $120k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026