Weekend Fund invests in early-stage startups. If you have questions about the fund, you're in the right place. :)
We're a small distributed team, optimistic about the future.
Meet Ryan Hoover
Ryan is the founder and a General Partner at Weekend Fund. He started his professional career as a product manager in the gaming industry. His fascination with technology and behavioral psychology led him to help write Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.
In 2013 he founded Product Hunt, inspired by his curiosity and a desire to support early stage makers and founders. The company raised capital from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and others before joining AngelList. Shortly after the acquisition he started Weekend Fund.
Meet Vedika Jain
Vedika is a General Partner at Weekend Fund. She started her professional career at Stripe in 2015, just as they were experiencing explosive growth. Her love for product as a discipline led her to join TrueLayer in London as their first product manager. The company grew from 8 to over 80 people during her tenure.
Her curiosity led her to spend nights and weekends writing “fantasy” investment memos on startups, before joining Weekend Fund. She now writes real memos (among many other things).
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups. The earlier the better!
But we also invest between rounds, post-seed and pre-Series A. If you're planning to raise an A soon, we might be able to connect you with the best investors at that stage. Reach out.
Occasionally! We've led SPVs in late stage opportunities where we have high conviction and unique access. When we lead an SPV, we invite our LPs alongside strategic operators and founders that can be particularly helpful as the business scales.
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We typically invest between $100K and $300K.
We have opinions, but we're not dogmatic. Instead, we're looking for founders with a strong vision to shape the future.
We invest broadly but we're particularly attracted to companies that are capitalizing on a consumer behavior or technology shift. You can read about a few specific areas we're excited to invest in here.
We know how busy founders are and try to be very respectful of their time. For this reason, we avoid asking for agenda-less “coffee meetings” and instead focus our time on specific asks and goals.
We wrote a Founder Manual that goes into more details of how we help and operate.
We don't invest in resumes. We look for founders that have a bias toward action and unique insight into a market, ideally capitalizing on a shift in consumer behavior technology.
You can email the entire team at team@weekend.fund.
We're also reachable at ryan@weekend.fund and vedika@weekend.fund.
Weekend Fund is distributed across Miami and London but we live on the internet.
Ryan's on Twitter, LinkedIn, AngelList, Product Hunt, and his personal site.
Vedika's on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt.
Read more about the fund on TechCrunch and Forbes.
We're thankful to have the support of over 350 LPs, mostly operators and founders, with diverse backgrounds across industries and expertise. Our LPs are an extension of our small team. Here are a few:
We're not currently raising but feel free to drop Ryan an email at ryan@weekend.fund if you're interested in participating in future funds or SPVs.
