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Where top technical founders get $1M+ for angel investing

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Founders in Powerset

Paul Copplestone

Co-Founder & CEO of Supabase $116M raised including Coatue

Jordan Tigani

Co-Founder & CEO of MotherDuck $100M raised including A16Z

George Sivulka

Founder & CEO of Hebbia $30M raised including Index

Asta Li

Co-Founder & CTO of Privy $26M raised including Sequoia

Savin Goyal

Co-Founder & CTO of Outerbounds $24M raised including Amplify

David Li

Co-Founder & CEO of Meliora $11M raised including Pebblebed

Tom Hacohen

Founder & CEO of Svix $10M raised including A16Z

Travis McPeak

Co-Founder & CEO of Resourcely $8M raised including Felicis

Noor Siddiqui

Founder & CEO of Orchid $5M raised including Village Global

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Recent Investments

LlamaIndex

Chroma

Secoda

Infisical

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“Powerset is ducking awesome. It takes me three minutes to write a $500k check.”

Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO of MotherDuck

What Founders Get

  • Their own $1M fund (paying 15% carry) 
  • A path to unlock $15M+ for follow-ons and future funds 
  • Real-time feedback and coaching on investments
  • A community of elite founders and mentors to learn from 
  • Full-stack legal & back-office support, so founders stay focused on their company
  • No pressure to invest; founders go at their own pace

“Powerset is a great way to support other founders while I remain 100% focused on Supabase.” 

Paul Copplestone, Co-Founder & CEO of Supabase

Become a Better Founder

Top founders choose Powerset as it complements company-building.

Get better at operating from sitting on the other side of the table

Learn from a peer group of elite founders in Powerset 

Become more knowledgeable by backing emerging technologies

No incremental time commitment; founders back companies they’d be helping anyway

“I love supporting exceptional technical founders, both to fast-track my own learnings and as a way to pay it forward.”

Savin Goyal, Co-Founder & CTO of Outerbounds + co-creator of open-source Metaflow

Team

Jake & Jonathan started Powerset to support “founders backing founders.”

Jake Zeller

  • Started online venture funds at AngelList
  • Provided founders with over $200M to start investing
  • Formerly a Partner in Spearhead from the program’s inception

Jonathan Swanson

  • Founder & Chairman of Thumbtack & Athena 
  • Scaled both companies to 1,000+ team members worldwide
  • Raised over $700M from Sequoia, Google, Blackstone and others
Investments include Seed/A rounds in Mercury, Scale AI, Talkdesk and 100+ more

“Jake & Jonathan have an incredibly high bar for investing. I had invested in 25+ companies prior to Powerset and am still learning a lot from them.”

Travis McPeak, Co-Founder & CEO of Resourcely

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