Leadout Capital

Leadout Capital is an early-stage venture fund established in 2018, focusing on companies that demonstrate a strong founder-market fit. The firm prioritizes entrepreneurs with world-class customer expertise, grounded in empathy, who are building businesses designed to create value for all stakeholders. Leadout Capital seeks out products characterized by robust network effects, unique data sets, organic and viral growth potential, favorable unit economics, and long-term defensibility. They are committed to catalyzing and augmenting entrepreneurial talent across diverse backgrounds, with a notable emphasis on supporting founders from underrepresented groups.

The firm actively invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, often taking a lead or co-lead position, and works to build and augment syndicates of co-investors. Beyond capital, Leadout Capital provides comprehensive support to its portfolio companies, including assistance with future fundraising, strategic customer introductions, recruiting, and access to their extensive networks. They serve as a strategic sounding board and accountability partner, leveraging their operating experience to guide product distribution, go-to-market strategy, and organizational development.

Leadout Capital's portfolio includes companies such as Pavilion, BlockSpaces, R-Zero, Near Space Labs, theCut, CloudSmith, Momentum, Axiom Cloud, and DDB. The team's angel investments further highlight their expertise, with notable companies like Figma, Beauty For All (ipsy), Matterport, Envoy, Lithic, UnitQ, Deca, CircleCI, and Wealthfront. The firm's investment scope spans a wide array of technology-driven sectors, including cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, financial services, cryptocurrency, consumer, business-to-business marketplaces, climate technology, geospatial data, and healthcare technology.

The leadership team at Leadout Capital brings a wealth of experience from prominent technology and finance companies. Ali Rosenthal, Founder & Managing Partner, previously held key roles at Facebook and Wealthfront, and has a background in M&A at Goldman Sachs and growth investing at General Atlantic Partners. General Partner Steve Brownlie joined from Altamont Capital Partners. Venture Partners Yun-Fang Juan, a seasoned investor and software engineer, was a Principal Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and co-creator of Facebook Ads, while Dion Dong has experience in product management at Laika and Rippling, and was a founding investor at Olive Capital.