Designer Fund
@designerfund
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We invest in leaders and empower them to improve the world with design.
San Francisco
Joined March 2011
Today we announced our $15M Series A, led by @Accel, and launched Prism — agentic reporting that can explain your finances. Prism gives you answers you can follow: what changed, why it changed, and the transactions behind it. It’s reporting that shows its reasoning.
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When the journey comes to an end: some thoughts on a big @designerfund milestone today... https://t.co/pjzjamrk28
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Today dozens of Designer Fund Fund I LPs will become Omada Health shareholders. It is both a beautiful and sad moment, the emotions of which aren’t often discussed in venture. Beautiful in that it...
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Our latest @designerfund newsletter is out complete with design + AI trends we’re watching as we go into 2026, updates from portfolio companies, a recap of our chat with @joulee and 15+ incredible design roles at companies like @stripe, @UseQuanta, @physical_int, and more...
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What we’re looking forward to in 2026: better AI interfaces, more products that work in the real world, and new UX in complex, regulated spaces. More in our latest newsletter, including @joulee on taking the founder leap and 15+ open design roles: https://t.co/GMQFgTAjip
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Interfere is hiring a Founding Full-Stack Product Engineer and a Founding AI Engineer to join our team in New York City 🇺🇸! (Visa sponsorship available) https://t.co/nAbRIT6aRo
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Build software that never breaks - Interfere finds and fixes bugs automatically in real-time, no human intervention required.
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We're looking for a Designer to join the Magic team at @linear. You'll work alongside some of the most talented individuals I've met. Questions? DMs are open. Link in thread.
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I love what @benblumenrose and @designerfund is doing to highlight designer founders and encourage more folks design backgrounds to start companies. Happy to share my journey in their latest installment. Honestly founding a company, like parenting, is one of the most rewarding
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After 14 years at Facebook, @joulee left to start @TeamSundial. Her advice for designers considering the founder path: Name what's stopping you Talk to 30-50 potential users Create artifacts that attract momentum Light a beacon - the right people will find you
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Today marks 1 year since @EnriqueAllen's passing. I still miss him terribly. His energy, his infectious smile, his ability to look at a problem 20 different ways. He was simply a wonderful friend, business partner, teacher, learner, and so much more. I still struggle to put
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Our model can now learn from its own experience with RL! Our new π*0.6 model can more than double throughput over a base model trained without RL, and can perform real-world tasks: making espresso drinks, folding diverse laundry, and assembling boxes. More in the thread below.
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The best companies continue to evolve and take big swings - well done @olofster and @Mixmax. We've been customers/investors for years and can't wait to try the new product suite :)
Everything is sales. And sales is the art of the follow up. But sellers are overwhelmed, and don’t know where to focus. You’re not losing deals, you’re losing moments. Mixmax helps you catch every one of them, so nothing (and no one) goes cold.
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We just launched Kepler: the agentic platform for e-commerce. It helps brands connect with both people and AI shoppers, powering conversational storefronts, AI-ready catalogs, and real-time insights.
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And yet, here are the homepages of some of the newest companies in the @designerfund family - https://t.co/89E91g8RDE
https://t.co/DHYFXmSzWX
https://t.co/QBIPFwRAf1
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https://t.co/Jpvm0lQoIN (ok sort of not fair) https://t.co/R3w9c4Myb2 just sayin' ;)
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Seeing a lot of REGRESSION in startup website design. You're likely better served with a Framer / Webflow / Squarespace template than a vibe-coded website that ignores just about all rules of design.
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As a backer of design-first startups like Stripe, Notion and Linear, @designerfund helps founders lead with design. Updating their site once meant development time, delays and broken pages. Now, with Framer, they design, write and publish instantly in one place.
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Earlier this year we decided to share more designer founders stories and insights to understand their unique approaches to company building. 12 conversations in with folks like @eshp, @ivanhzhao. @jeffand_. @UhrCecilia, @brian_lovin and others the best lessons are emerging...
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Six months ago we launched Designer Founders with the goal of getting more designers to start companies by showing them it's possible. Our favorite lessons from @ivanhzhao @jeffand_ @UhrCecilia @brian_lovin and more: https://t.co/5W8MSt14O4
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Your legacy will live on in our work, in the companies we helped build, the designers and leaders we helped develop, and now in a new generation of students who will build on your story. Hope you’re looking down and smiling on us E…
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FYI - one of the best places to look for a design job is over at @designerfund job list - lots of great stuff over there... https://t.co/3jgPApR0rg
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Search job openings across the Designer Fund network.
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For a while now we’ve wanted to move the @designerfund site to @framer but felt like given 100+ blog posts, long-form resources, etc. that the process would take months and $$$. The reality - @bengold with @framer team support got it done in 5 weeks :)
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