Denver, Colorado · Pre-seed & seed

The best founders have a secret.
We back them first.

Range is a seed fund built and run by founders who've been in your seat. We back proven builders with hard-earned insight, creating N-of-1 companies in the categories the coasts overlook.

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What a founder with a secret looks like

Secret-driven founders are the cornerstone of how we invest.

A secret is something true about a market that almost nobody else believes yet. The founders who have one tend to share three things.

01

Consensus before the market knows they're consensus

The operator everyone will want to back in three years. We'd rather be first than fashionable.

02

Unique, hard-earned, and even harder-to-replicate insight

Learned from years inside the problem, not from a weekend of research.

03

Proprietary networks of industry experts, talent, and customers

A rolodex that becomes the first ten logos, the first ten hires, and the first ten advisors.

The result: high-horsepower founders chasing billion-dollar opportunities only they can capture.

Where we invest

Three places where founder secrets become billion-dollar companies.

I

Deep Tech

Why we love it

Durable and defensible: physical AI driving a new golden era of science and real-world applications.

Where secrets win

  • Technical expertise earned over a decade or more
  • IP they own, forged inside a leading institution
  • A technical talent draw competitors can't replicate
II

Vertical AI for overlooked industries

Why we love it

Work too hard to automate just became possible. The boring industries everyone skipped are now huge opportunities.

Where secrets win

  • Knows the customer's pain and its economic value
  • Of the industry, not adjacent — trusted where tech isn't
  • A rolodex that becomes the first ten logos quickly
III

AI-driven infrastructure & tooling

Why we love it

Picks and shovels in the biggest gold rush yet: durable, recurring, winner-agnostic.

Where secrets win

  • Built it internally — lived the problem years before the market
  • Productizes hard-won practice and scales it across industries
  • Topic-level authority that wins design partners; buyers bet on who's selling

Portfolio

Thirty-seven companies. Every one started with a secret.

Grouped by where the secret lives. Fund noted for each.

I

Deep Tech

6 companies
AMPFix the economics of recycling and the waste problem follows.FUND I Bifrost ElectronicsQuantum scales only as fast as the hardware that talks to it.FUND II CascadeEnzymes that run continuously for sustainable manufacturing.FUND II CimeThe next cancer cures are in synthetic space no one has mapped.FUND II GreatSkySuperconducting circuits with optical links can transform AI compute.FUND II Locus LockPositioning that holds up in adversarial environments.FUND II
II

Vertical AI for overlooked industries

20 companies
AbodeThe most expensive hire is the one who never shows up.FUND I FreelyRestaurant-to-distributor payments are still analog.FUND II GuesthouseHomes sell on feeling, not square footage.FUND I HappyDocVets burn out from paperwork, not animals.FUND II HealthnoteClinician burnout starts with pre-visit paperwork.FUND I HoistHome services isn't short on hustle. It's short on systems.FUND I JawaGaming hardware isn't broken by supply. It's broken by trust.FUND I LaunchbayServices firms lose margin between closing and delivering.FUND II MagicSchoolAI in education only works with the safeguards teachers need.FUND II NomadSmall landlords are optimizing for certainty, not just yield.FUND I OnwardShippers can't see the full carrier market.FUND I OvermatchAgentic AI for defense purchasing.FUND II RelyInstitutional-grade diligence automation for multifamily.FUND II ScholarlyFaculty spend a staggering share of time on admin.FUND II SnugPeople skip estate planning because it's intimidating.FUND I soonaE-commerce brands are starving for fast, affordable content.FUND I SublynkRestoration still runs on clipboards.FUND II TradeslyTrades businesses lose jobs to voicemail.FUND II Two BoxesReturns aren't a write-off. They're a data goldmine.FUND I ZumaMultifamily loses deals to slow follow-up.FUND I
III

AI-driven infrastructure & tooling

11 companies
BettrDataData engineering is broken by manual operations.FUND II BoltwiseProcurement is constrained by describing what you're buying.FUND II BugZeroThe bugs behind outages are already documented — just invisible.FUND II CometChatEvery app needs real-time chat. Building it twice is a waste.FUND I ContextBridgeThe 10x developer isn't about the model. It's about memory.FUND II GriptapeEnterprise AI fails as a black box.FUND I PrecogThe bottleneck isn't analytics. It's usable data.FUND I SliderAI prototyping tools don't work for enterprise.FUND II StablePhysical mail is a broken workflow hiding in plain sight.FUND I SuiteFile streaming changes the cost and speed of video editing.FUND I TheySaidCompanies lose customers to silence.FUND I

Team

Founders first, investors second.

Zero to a billion in revenue, IPOs, and everything in between — we've done it ourselves.

Adam BurrowsAdam BurrowsCo-Founder & Managing Director Chris EricksonChris EricksonCo-Founder & Managing Director Hayfa AboukierHayfa AboukierGeneral Partner

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