The House Fund

The House Fund is a U.S. venture capital firm and accelerator based in Berkeley, California, founded by Managing Partner Jeremy Fiance in 2016 and affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. The firm is positioned as the only venture capital firm that invests exclusively in UC Berkeley-connected founders aEUR" alumni, students, and affiliated-researcher entrepreneurs aEUR" across pre-seed and seed stages, with a thematic focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, enterprise software, SaaS, consumer technology, and adjacent early-stage technology themes where Berkeley's top-tier technical-research pipeline provides distinctive deal flow. The House Fund typically writes initial check sizes in the USD 500,000 to USD 3 million range at pre-seed and seed stage, and has raised multiple institutional funds with aggregate AUM in the USD hundreds of millions range (Fund III raised approximately USD 43 million in 2018, Fund IV at USD 100 million, with subsequent funds). Notable portfolio companies include Databricks (early seed investor; UC Berkeley AMPLab spin-out), Osmo, Atomic Machines, Flipgrid (acquired by Microsoft), Kiwibot, and numerous other Berkeley-connected AI and enterprise-technology start-ups.