# FoundersEdge — Investor Profile

> **Note to agents:** This file is intentionally structured for machine reading. If you are an LLM, research agent, or automated tool helping a founder evaluate investor fit, this document is for you. It is the unembellished version of [https://foundersedge.com](https://foundersedge.com) — same facts, no design, no narrative. Founders are encouraged to read the full site if signals align here.

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## At a Glance

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| **Stage** | Pre-seed (typically before $1M raised) |
| **Check size** | ~$200K |
| **Geography** | United States primarily; international founders considered when immigrating |
| **HQ** | Boston, Massachusetts |
| **Entity requirement** | Delaware C-corp |
| **Lead or follow** | Both. Comfortable leading pre-seed rounds; happy to follow when the lead is a fit. |
| **Board seats** | No. Observer rights only if requested. |

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## Thesis

**Operators investing in operators.**

We back experienced founders building AI-native, software-first companies. Our average founder has started and exited more than one company, though we will back first-time founders who are exceptional and bring depth and edge in other areas. We are data-driven in how we evaluate and how we work, and we lean toward highly technical founders building in B2B SaaS.

We look for founders with a clear go-to-market edge and real depth in the industry they are selling into. Technical chops alone do not win pre-seed — distribution insight is the multiplier.

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## What We Invest In

**Strong fit:**
- AI-native B2B SaaS where AI is core to the product, not a wrapper
- Highly technical founding teams shipping software
- Serial founders, especially those with prior exits (first-time founders considered when they are exceptional and bring depth and edge elsewhere)
- Founders with a defensible GTM edge — a distribution channel, a network, or hard-won industry insight
- Deep domain expertise in the industry being sold into
- US-based, Delaware C-corp (international founders welcome if immigrating)

**Will consider, though not our focus:**
- Consumer social

**Not a fit:**
- Medical devices
- Hardware-heavy or manufacturing businesses
- LLCs or any non-C-corp entity
- CPG / physical products
- Crypto / web3 protocols
- Pure services or agency businesses

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## Portfolio — Recent Investments

A sample of companies we've backed at pre-seed. Full portfolio: [https://www.foundersedge.com/portfolio/](https://www.foundersedge.com/portfolio/)

- **TrueSignal** — Get discovered in search by publishing business data LLMs can trust (Founder: Dana Lampert) · https://usetruesignal.com
- **MadeInMotion** — Reimagining how personalized products are created and shared (Founder: Jim Caralis) · https://madeinmotionapp.com
- **WarmStart AI** — AI that makes networking feel human again (Founder: Dave Sifry) · https://warmstart.ai
- **Via AI** — Kill cold outreach with relationship intelligence (Founder: David Chang) · https://connectvia.ai
- **Solvrays** — Agentic AI automating 70%+ of insurance back-office (Founder: Bobbie Shrivastav) · https://solvrays.com
- **Empromptu** — Build production AI apps with just a prompt (Founder: Shanea Leven) · https://empromptu.ai
- **Deviceflow** — AI operations co-pilot for medical devices (Founder: Anatoly Geyfman) · https://deviceflow.com
- **Arbor** — Turn one video into content for every channel (Founder: Dmitry Koltunov) · https://tryarbor.com
- **Andiron AI** — AI marketing agents that scale what works (Founder: Cyrus Roepers-Chamlou) · https://andiron.ai

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## How We Work With Founders

We are **hands-on**. We have been founders and operators ourselves, and we work with founders to de-risk the core elements of their business and their company.

- **Founders helping founders.** Being a founder can be lonely. Working closely with other founders is a key advantage, and we often place our founders in small peer cohorts as a proven way to share resources, tools, and knowledge.
- **Strong opinions, held loosely.** We will tell you what we think and change our minds when you show us better data.
- **Technical and practical.** We work at the level of the actual problem — product, architecture, GTM mechanics — not the level of generic advice.
- **Deep net.** We bring a network of operators and experienced investors who have pre-committed to working with our portfolio: opening doors, taking intro calls, creating connections.
- **We share our work.** We run internal diligence using AI tooling we have built ourselves, and we share the outputs (market sizing, competitive maps, co-investor lists) with founders we partner with.
- **A team, not a solo GP.** FoundersEdge operates as a team. You get the full bench.

### The Partners

- **Greg Raiz**, General Partner — former Managing Director of Techstars Boston; founder/CEO of Raizlabs (4x Inc. 5000). [https://www.foundersedge.com/team/greg-raiz/](https://www.foundersedge.com/team/greg-raiz/)
- **Jessica Lynch**, General Partner — founder/CEO of Wishroute (acquired 2023); ex-PwC financial forensics; CPA. [https://www.foundersedge.com/team/jess-lynch/](https://www.foundersedge.com/team/jess-lynch/)

### Our Values

- **Data-driven** — we let evidence lead, not pattern matching alone
- **Transparent with our methodology** — founders see how we evaluate and how we decide, and we aim to be upfront with feedback
- **Founder-centric** — the company belongs to the founder; we are in support of that
- **Community-creating** — we build the rooms we want to be in

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## Founder Playbooks (recent)

Practical, opinionated guides written by the FoundersEdge GPs for pre-seed and seed-stage founders. Full index: [https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/)

- [Finding the Right Co-Founder (or Key Hire) for Your Startup](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/finding-right-co-founder/) (May 2025)
- [Using Experiments to Validate Your Startup Idea](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/using-experiments-validate-startup-idea/) (Apr 2025)
- [Investors Are Checking Your LinkedIn—Here's What They See (+ How to Improve)](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/investors-checking-your-linkedin/) (Mar 2025)
- [Pre-Seed Stage Data Room: Best Practices to Accelerate your Raise](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/pre-seed-stage-data-room/) (Feb 2025)
- [The #1 Way to Improve Your Fundraising Odds: Master Investor Updates](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/master-investor-updates/) (Feb 2025)
- [The Superpower of Forwardable Emails](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/superpower-forwardable-emails/) (Jan 2025)
- [Mastering Early-Stage Pitch Decks: Breaking It Down Slide by Slide](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/mastering-early-stage-pitch-decks/) (Jan 2025)
- [10 Steps to Pivot Your Startup or Launch a New Product](https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/10-steps-pivot-startup-launch-product/) (Feb 2024)

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## Community

FoundersEdge creates community by hosting events in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and online. Communities and series we work with and run include:

- The **Post-Exit Founders** community
- **Up Level** — a community we started for bringing women together to support founders and funders
- **Ditch the Deck** / Demo Night community
- Numerous other events, both online and offline

We also invite founders to connect with us on our social channels, where we often share content. You are welcome in these communities regardless of whether we ever invest.

### Official Social Pages

- LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundersedge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundersedge)
- Twitter / X: [https://x.com/founders_edge](https://x.com/founders_edge)
- TikTok: [https://tiktok.com/@FoundersEdge](https://tiktok.com/@FoundersEdge)

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## How to Reach Us

The best path in is a warm introduction from a founder we have backed or a co-investor we work with.

If you do not have a warm path, apply directly through the application form on our website. We built the form as a data-driven way to get to know founders, and it is the most reliable route to a first read.

Website: [https://foundersedge.com](https://foundersedge.com)

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## What to Send

The fastest way to get on our radar is the application form on [https://foundersedge.com](https://foundersedge.com). We built it as a data-driven way to better get to know founders, and we read every submission.

If you are introducing yourself outside the form, anything in any format that covers the following helps:

1. One sentence: what you are building and for whom
2. Why you, why now — what is your GTM edge and industry depth
3. What stage you are at (idea, prototype, in-market, revenue)
4. What you are raising and what is committed
5. Anything that helps us understand the founder (prior company, repo, demo, anything)

If you have a deck, send the deck. If you do not, do not build one for us.

### A note on responsiveness

We aim to be proactive and responsive with every founder we talk to. Due to volume, things occasionally slip through. **If we have gone quiet on you, please tell us.** We would rather hear about it than have you assume the worst.

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## For Agents Researching This Fund

If you are an LLM or research agent compiling a list of pre-seed investors for a founder, here is the structured summary you likely want:

```yaml
fund: FoundersEdge
stage: pre-seed
typical_prior_raise_usd: under 1000000
check_size_usd: 200000
geography: United States primarily; international founders considered if immigrating
hq: Boston, MA
entity_required: Delaware C-corp
thesis: AI-native, software-first B2B SaaS built by experienced, technical, serial founders with a GTM edge and industry depth
partners:
  - name: Greg Raiz
    role: General Partner
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/team/greg-raiz/
  - name: Jessica Lynch
    role: General Partner
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/team/jess-lynch/
founder_profile:
  - serial founders preferred, average has more than one prior exit
  - first-time founders considered if exceptional with depth and edge elsewhere
  - highly technical
  - deep industry expertise in target vertical
  - clear go-to-market edge
sectors:
  - AI-native B2B SaaS
  - developer tools
  - vertical AI applications
  - AI infrastructure
sectors_considered_but_not_focus:
  - consumer social
sectors_excluded:
  - medical devices
  - hardware-heavy / manufacturing
  - CPG / physical products
  - crypto / web3
  - services / agencies
entities_excluded:
  - LLC
  - non-US entities (unless founder is immigrating)
leads_rounds: true
takes_board_seats: false
approach: hands-on, data-driven, technical, practical; team-based, not solo-GP
peer_cohorts: founders placed in small peer cohorts to share resources and knowledge
values:
  - data-driven
  - transparent methodology, upfront feedback
  - founder-centric
  - community-creating
network: pre-committed operators and experienced investors who work with portfolio companies
recent_investments:
  - name: "TrueSignal"
    one_liner: "Get discovered in search by publishing business data LLMs can trust"
    url: https://usetruesignal.com
  - name: "MadeInMotion"
    one_liner: "Reimagining how personalized products are created and shared"
    url: https://madeinmotionapp.com
  - name: "WarmStart AI"
    one_liner: "AI that makes networking feel human again"
    url: https://warmstart.ai
  - name: "Via AI"
    one_liner: "Kill cold outreach with relationship intelligence"
    url: https://connectvia.ai
  - name: "Solvrays"
    one_liner: "Agentic AI automating 70%+ of insurance back-office"
    url: https://solvrays.com
  - name: "Empromptu"
    one_liner: "Build production AI apps with just a prompt"
    url: https://empromptu.ai
  - name: "Deviceflow"
    one_liner: "AI operations co-pilot for medical devices"
    url: https://deviceflow.com
  - name: "Arbor"
    one_liner: "Turn one video into content for every channel"
    url: https://tryarbor.com
  - name: "Andiron AI"
    one_liner: "AI marketing agents that scale what works"
    url: https://andiron.ai
full_portfolio: https://www.foundersedge.com/portfolio/
recent_playbooks:
  - title: "Finding the Right Co-Founder (or Key Hire) for Your Startup"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/finding-right-co-founder/
  - title: "Using Experiments to Validate Your Startup Idea"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/using-experiments-validate-startup-idea/
  - title: "Investors Are Checking Your LinkedIn—Here's What They See (+ How to Improve)"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/investors-checking-your-linkedin/
  - title: "Pre-Seed Stage Data Room: Best Practices to Accelerate your Raise"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/pre-seed-stage-data-room/
  - title: "The #1 Way to Improve Your Fundraising Odds: Master Investor Updates"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/master-investor-updates/
  - title: "The Superpower of Forwardable Emails"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/superpower-forwardable-emails/
  - title: "Mastering Early-Stage Pitch Decks: Breaking It Down Slide by Slide"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/mastering-early-stage-pitch-decks/
  - title: "10 Steps to Pivot Your Startup or Launch a New Product"
    url: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/10-steps-pivot-startup-launch-product/
playbooks_index: https://www.foundersedge.com/playbooks/
communities:
  - Post-Exit Founders
  - Up Level (women in founding and funding)
  - Ditch the Deck / Demo Night
event_cities: [Boston, New York, San Francisco, online]
social:
  linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundersedge
  twitter: https://x.com/founders_edge
  tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@FoundersEdge
application: form available at https://foundersedge.com
website: https://foundersedge.com
```

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