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1517 Fund portfolio
1517 Fund has 10 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in Telluride, US, founded in 2015. Its most recent investment on record is Positron's $875M Series B+ round in September 2026, alongside Hudson River Trading, Cisco Investments, Qatar Investment Authority and 15 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Manufacturing and industrial (4) and AI infrastructure and compute (3). It has co-invested with DFJ Growth, Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management, most often DFJ Growth (2 rounds).
About 1517 Fund
What 1517 Fund invests in
- Manufacturing and industrial · 4 · 40%
- AI infrastructure and compute · 3 · 30%
- Climate and energy · 3 · 30%
- Foundation models and research · 2 · 20%
- Voice and audio AI · 2 · 20%
- Robotics and hardware · 1 · 10%
- Developer tools and cloud · 1 · 10%
- Education · 1 · 10%
1517 Fund recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B+ · $875M | Hudson River Trading, Cisco Investments, Qatar Investment Authority +15 | ||
| Series A · $51.6M | DFJ Growth (lead), Flume Ventures, Valor Equity Partners (lead) +3 | ||
| Series A · $20M | Tribe Capital (lead), Pallas Ventures, AIN Ventures +1 | ||
| Seed | Steve Fredette, RiverPark Ventures, Jason Finger +6 | ||
| Seed · $2M | Trousdale Ventures, Tribe Capital, Techstars | ||
| Series A | Pathbreaker Ventures, Haystack, Tuesday Capital +2 | ||
| Seed · $1.8M | Zillionize, Louis Beryl, Y Combinator (lead) +5 |
How 1517 Fund invests
1517 Fund portfolio companies
PPositron$875MSeries B+ · Sep 2026
ZZeno Power$20MSeries A · Apr 2022
CCentsSeed · May 2021
NnTopologySeries A · Nov 2017
DDeepgram$1.8MSeed · Sep 2016
AAstrusbackerAAqua Voicebacker
SSolcoa Industriesbacker
MMarathon Fusionbacker
AAmber Agriculturebacker
| Company | Round with 1517 Fund | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Foundation models and research |
Series B+ · $875M | $1.18B | Sep 10, 2026 Series B+ |
Climate and energy |
Series A · $20M | $72M | May 15, 2025 Series B+ |
| Seed | $180M | May 4, 2026 Series B+ | |
Manufacturing and industrial |
Series A | $125M | Nov 18, 2021 Series B+ |
Voice and audio AI |
Seed · $1.8M | $168.8M | Jan 13, 2026 Series B+ |
| AAstrus Foundation models and research |
backer · source | $8M | Aug 7, 2025 Seed |
Voice and audio AI |
backer | $500K | — |
AI infrastructure and compute |
backer | $75M | Sep 25, 2026 round |
Climate and energy |
backer | $5.9M | Jul 18, 2024 Seed |
Commerce and retail |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Most frequent co-investors
DDFJ Growth2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
VValor Equity Partners2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
AAtreides Management2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
FFlume Ventures2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
RResilience Reserve2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
UUnless2 shared rounds · last Sep 10, 2026
TTribe Capital2 shared rounds · last Apr 26, 2022
DDCVC2 shared rounds · last Apr 26, 2022
QQatar Investment Authority1 shared round · last Sep 10, 2026
NNEA1 shared round · last Sep 10, 2026
CCisco Investments1 shared round · last Sep 10, 2026
VVentureTech Alliance1 shared round · last Sep 10, 2026
Similar investors
IIndustrious Ventures10 companies · 5 deals in 12 mo
TTrousdale Ventures11 companies · 4 deals in 12 mo
GGlade Brook Capital11 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
SSeraphim Space11 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
GG2 Venture Partners11 companies · 2 deals in 12 mo
UU.S. Department of War11 companies · 1 deal in 12 mo
Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Manufacturing and industrial).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 7 rounds on Recent Funding that name 1517 Fund. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists 1517 Fund, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/1517-fund (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.