LEADOUT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC

Thesis

Leadout Capital Management, LLC is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018, based in Portola Valley, California. The firm's investment thesis, 'founder-market fit,' centers on backing resilient founders who are world-class customer experts building venture-scale businesses for underserved and large end markets. They prioritize founders who value diversity and inclusivity, aiming to build cognitively and intellectually diverse teams. Leadout Capital prefers to lead, co-lead, or be a significant investor in pre-seed and seed rounds. Their broad investment areas include cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, financial services, crypto, community & social, consumer, B2B marketplaces, gov tech, IoT, hospitality, property technology, automation, climate, geospatial data, health tech, advertising, and transportation. As of April 30, 2025, the firm reported two private funds with a total gross asset value of $86.81 million. Leadout Capital I closed with over $27 million in May 2019, and Leadout Capital II, L.P. had an offering amount of $60,000,000 as of April 19, 2021. Specific check sizes per deal are not publicly disclosed, but they focus on pre-seed and seed rounds.

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