Our team works hard.
And it is our belief that the great ideas of tomorrow will not rely on geography.
10+
Companies Founded
100+
Companies Invested
$500B+
Equity value of exits
It’s not all about the Bay Area anymore.
We believe the next wave of truly great companies will be built everywhere.
What’s your mission?
We care less about where you live, and more about the problem you’re solving. Our founders are mission driven, trying to make a difference in the world.
DNA
We partner with founders at the earliest stages of the company prior to raising any institutional capital and focus on healthcare tech, ed tech, climate tech, ag tech, fin tech, the future of work, prop tech and frontier tech.
Founders
We partner with mission driven founders who are scrappy, passionate and relentless. Our ideal founding team has deep domain experience coupled with product, design, development, sales and marketing experience.
Geography
We focus on entrepreneurs in domestic emerging ecosystems and have partnered with entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Durham, Chicago, Pittsburgh, DC, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia and Boston so far!
Do you have deep domain expertise and are you on a mission to solve a big problem? Apply to be one of our startup founders here:
We want to be your first investor. We are happy to invest when you have no product, no customers, no revenue, no team. We have funded entrepreneurs without ideas before!
Think accelerator like economics with a combination of common equity and SAFE investment but before an accelerator would invest!
We invest before an accelerator would at the beginning of your company (in fact you may not have an actual company set up but don’t worry we can help you with that). No cohorts, no demo days, no defined period of time working with you. We want to be your first investor who works with you from the start of your journey to the end no matter how long it takes.
We have all been entrepreneurs before and know how difficult the path is to building something from nothing. We know that this is your baby and that the best companies are built by you. We have helped in all aspects of company building from helping to build the product, refining go to market, helping land initial clients, helping to raise follow on capital, recruiting co founders and senior execs to helping you ultimately exit.
We look for mission driven entrepreneurs with domain expertise who are trying to solve a problem they have personally experienced. We do not care if you have started a company before (in fact the vast majority of our entrepreneurs are starting their first company).
We will invest anywhere in the United States (with a strong preference for companies based outside of the Bay Area) and Canada. We will opportunistically look at entrepreneurs based outside of the United States and Canada. To date we have made investments in companies based in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Durham, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.
We are industry agnostic but won’t invest in companies that are capital intensive at formation stage given our check size.
Given we strive to be hands on, we are not high velocity investors and only make a handful of new investments a year. We will work with you though however long it takes.
KohFounders is play on Bong’s last name “Koh” and the fact that we want you to think of us as your first call like you would an external co-founder (tongue in cheek).
