Designer Fund
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We invest in leaders and empower them to improve the world with design.
San Francisco
Joined March 2011
Your 2025 guide to hiring the best designer just dropped
For startups, finding and convincing a great designer to join your team is getting harder. We just released a resource library to help founders navigate this - job descriptions, evaluation frameworks, sourcing tactics from a decade of helping companies build their design team.
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Hiring is hard. Finding a job is hard. The folks at Designer Fund have worked on this Hiring Library over the past few months with intensity. It cuts through the noise – pure strategy + tactics. And it's the fastest way to learn how to hire. I believe all founders + hiring
For startups, finding and convincing a great designer to join your team is getting harder. We just released a resource library to help founders navigate this - job descriptions, evaluation frameworks, sourcing tactics from a decade of helping companies build their design team.
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Includes the full recording from our design hiring session, the 60-slide deck, plus everything we learned from interviewing founding designers, recruiters, and founders on both sides of the process: https://t.co/8IbNCM0xmT
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Get that touchdown feeling in your living room with the TCL C8K. Don’t just watch it, experience it. The TCL C8K - the next best thing to being at the NFL
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For startups, finding and convincing a great designer to join your team is getting harder. We just released a resource library to help founders navigate this - job descriptions, evaluation frameworks, sourcing tactics from a decade of helping companies build their design team.
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Brand new website for @mymoneyera! Loved working with @destroytoday on this update over the past few days(!!). Peep the new brand colors 🎨🎨 We've got lots more coming soon.
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Evan Sharp, the founder of Pinterest, is such a unique founder. Constant curiosity mixed with the ability to go deeper on a problem than most people ever would. At the same time, despite leading/founding a $20B+ company, I think many designers can see themselves in him...
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Love this interview with Pinterest founder + designer Evan Sharp and @benblumenrose — great vibes about craft and building. @designerfund So intrigued by his new thing. Insane founding team. https://t.co/7yglTmNL1I
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@Pinterest @benblumenrose More on what he’s building now, West Co's operating frameworks, and the advice he’d give his younger self in our latest Designer Founders interview:
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Evan Sharp helped build @Pinterest into one of the internet’s most beloved products. His new company West Co. asks how tech can help us live more meaningful lives. In conversation with @benblumenrose, he reflects on design + the business value of caring.
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Looking for at least one product designer (US based) to join our team at @linear and help build quality products, agents, and AI. DMs open.
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Congrats to @designerfund backed Euclid Power on their $20M Series A led by @Venrock! We need more renewable energy projects to come online faster and Euclid is quickly becoming the trusted partner for folks looking to compress timelines and reduce project risk. LFG!
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Announcing ˗ˏˋ Operate [Alpha] ˎˊ˗ We've been in the lab cooking up something special: a CRM designed for sales, built for founders. With the foundations built, we're hiring an engineer and designer to continue to bring the vision to life.
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when your investors are @soleio @jornvandijk @koenbok @designerfund and @seedtosunflower your product is gonna be 🔥! Founders your new go-to CRM just dropped courtesy of @moeamaya and team. Request early access here -
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Not Yet Another Sales Tool™. Operate is a precision-built tool designed to cut through the noise. Smart defaults 🎯, fast workflows ⚡, zero fluff 🚫.
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Designers / future designer founders - make sure this event is on your calendar! Thursday, September 11 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM at @southpkcommons with @soleio and @jonathan_arena ! https://t.co/CQjah4nhGv
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Designers should have the same pay as engineers.
Want to know if a company truly values design? Look at their compensation. What an organization pays designers vs engineers speaks louder than words. At Notion, we put our money where our mouth is and pay both disciplines the same. Oh and yes...we're hiring :)
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Congrats to the Copper team on the $28M raise to help electrify the home, starting with the electric range. The team has already shipped 1,000 of the world’s first battery-equipped induction ranges and they're just getting started :)
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We’ve used @Guideline401k for years to manage our 401k. Such a simple, elegant product - makes total sense for @GustoHQ. Well done @tomerlondon , @joshuareeves and team!
I’m excited to share @Guideline401k is joining @GustoHQ! (pending regulatory approvals) @kevinbusque + team have helped 1M+ people save for retirement by putting customers first. Together, we’re excited to bring incredible retirement benefits to small businesses!
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Demand for design talent has surged the last two months Why? AI value is accruing to the app layer → brand and design differentiate applications "How do I hire a great designer" is the #1 question we've been getting @designerfund is answering: Thurs at 11AM PT -- RSVP↓
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Do both - hire a cracked designer and it’ll be even easier to raise $5M. And on Thursday we'll show you how -
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The startup design hiring market is more competitive and confusing than ever. Founders are struggling to fill roles as everyone chases the same small pool of…
It’s easier to raise a $5M seed round than hire a cracked designer full time
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This was such a fun conversation to have. Jessica is RELENTLESS. Puts in insane amounts of reps, unending appetite to learn new things, and just makes makes makes where others talk/think. Thanks @jessicahische for sharing how you work with us :)
Lettering icon @jessicahische is adding "software company founder" to her list of creative ventures with Studioworks, a payments platform built for independent creatives. What began as a side project quickly felt like "hitting a vein of gold".
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