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 real economy.
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.
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.
Unique, hard-earned, and even harder-to-replicate insight
Learned from years inside the problem, not from a weekend of research.
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.
Why Range
Secrets don't show up in a deal-flow inbox.
We built the firm around the places they actually surface — and around being the first check in, not the fourth.
We find secrets where other funds aren't looking.
Our best companies came to us through our LPs, our founder dinners, university labs, and cold outreach into industries the coasts skip — not a warm intro from another VC. By the time a secret-driven founder is on a demo-day stage, the secret is usually already priced in.
We lead.
We led or co-led most of our Fund II rounds. We set terms, take the board seat when there is one, and do the work before anyone else has to — which is why founders with a real secret choose us when they have other options.
We've been the founder in the chair.
Between us we've taken companies from zero to over a billion in revenue and through IPOs. That isn't a credential; it's how we tell a hard-earned insight from a pitch that just sounds like one.
Where we invest
Three places where founder secrets become billion-dollar companies.
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
Vertical AI for the real economy
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
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
Our Portfolio, each one began with a secret.
Deep Tech
6 companiesVertical AI for the real economy
16 companiesAI-driven infrastructure & tooling
10 companiesTeam
Founders first, investors second.
Zero to a billion in revenue, IPOs, and everything in between — we've done it ourselves.
Have a secret the market hasn't caught on to yet?
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