Productivity

First Round Capital

Check: First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Todd.

Todd backs technical founders who can turn complex technology into an elegant power tool and is unusually focused on the mechanics of reaching product-market fit. His disclosed portfolio—fal, Parallel, Town, Ploy, Artemis, Actively, and Noon—centers on generative-media infrastructure, AI-native software, agentic products, security, sales reasoning, website automation, and design-to-code workflows.

Trust Fund

Check: $150K-$300K checks, as published by Trust Fund.

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infrastructure, logistics, supply-chain and productivity tools.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No personal check range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

Nadia invests across enterprise applications and infrastructure, from AI compute and networking to vertical AI in healthcare, finance, sales, coding, and productivity. Her official portfolio spans both early and growth stages and emphasizes systems that meet domain-specific standards—clinical evidence, financial auditability, low-latency media, safe autonomy, or enterprise context—rather than generic AI capability alone.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: Not publicly disclosed. Kleiner Perkins invests from early stage through selective growth rounds; isolated portfolio check disclosures should not be treated as Josh's standard range.

Josh backs founders applying AI to consequential workflows in both software and the physical economy. His portfolio shows a consistent preference for products that turn abundant but fragmented information into trustworthy decisions or actions, automate labor-constrained expert work, or combine software with hardware to reverse structural productivity declines. He remains open beyond named sectors when a founder is determined to reinvent an industry.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and its Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M; a 2020 interview described historical seed checks around $1M–$2M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adrian's personal authority.

Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes partnering before defining strategic moments rather than arriving only for transactions; the relevant lens is whether a bold founder has an unfair advantage, a billion-dollar market, and a disciplined plan to remove the most important technical and market risks.

Trust Fund

Los Angeles, California