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Employee Stock Option Fund

Employee Stock Option Fund portfolio

Employee Stock Option Fund has 10 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: esofund.com.

Type: Lender.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 10.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $227M.

Latest deal: Rec Room · Dec 20, 2021.

About this page

It is a lender based in San Mateo, US, founded in 2012. Its most recent investment on record is Rec Room's $150M Series B+ round in December 2021, alongside Coatue, Greycroft, Sequoia and 3 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Consumer and social (2) and Fintech (2). It has co-invested with Madrona, Sequoia and Index Ventures.

About Employee Stock Option Fund

Firm type: Lender.

Headquarters: San Mateo, US.

Founded: 2012.

Stages: Late Stage.

Sectors: Fintech.

Leads rounds: No.

What Employee Stock Option Fund invests in

Consumer and social · 2 · 20%
Fintech · 2 · 20%
Logistics and mobility · 2 · 20%
Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 20%
Gaming · 1 · 10%
Data and analytics · 1 · 10%
Education · 1 · 10%
Robotics and hardware · 1 · 10%

Employee Stock Option Fund recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
RRec Room	Series B+ · $150M	Dec 20, 2021	Coatue (lead), Greycroft, Sequoia +3
SSisu Data	Series B+ · $62M	Sep 28, 2021	NEA, Geodesic Capital, Green Bay Ventures (lead) +1
FFictiv	Series B+ · $15M	May 8, 2018	FJ Labs, StartX, Sinovation Ventures (lead) +4

How Employee Stock Option Fund invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	3 100%	$227M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2018	1 33%	$15M
2021	2 67%	$212M

Employee Stock Option Fund portfolio companies

RRec Room$150MSeries B+ · Dec 2021
SSisu Data$62MSeries B+ · Sep 2021
FFictiv$15MSeries B+ · May 2018
BBusiness Insiderbacker
UUniphorebacker
OOutdoor Voicesbacker
PPlanGridbacker
TTaskRabbitbacker
DDuo Securitybacker
CCreditKarmabacker

Company	Round with Employee Stock Option Fund	Total raised	Latest raise
RRec Room Gaming	Dec 20, 2021 Series B+ · $150M	$299M	Dec 20, 2021 Series B+
SSisu Data Data and analytics	Sep 28, 2021 Series B+ · $62M	$62M	Sep 28, 2021 Series B+
FFictiv Robotics and hardware	May 8, 2018 Series B+ · $15M	$183M	May 5, 2022 Series B+
BBusiness Insider Sales and marketing	backer	undisclosed	Aug 6, 2026 Series A
UUniphore AI agents	backer	$851M	Apr 8, 2026 Series B+
OOutdoor Voices Commerce and retail	backer	$42M	Jun 11, 2025 Series A
PPlanGrid Developer tools and cloud	backer	undisclosed	—
TTaskRabbit Logistics and mobility	backer	undisclosed	—
DDuo Security Cybersecurity	backer	$112M	Oct 18, 2017 round
CCreditKarma Stablecoins	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Consumer and social).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name Employee Stock Option 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 Employee Stock Option Fund, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/employee-stock-option-fund (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.