# 1517 Fund: investment profile

Published mandate, cheque sizes and source evidence for 1517 Fund. Sources checked 2026-10-11.

Source: https://12inf.ai/resources/funds/1517-fund
Updated: 2026-10-14

Backs uncredentialed founders such as dropouts, students and deep-tech scientists from the idea stage through seed, leading pre-seed rounds and following on through the company lifecycle.

## Published mandate

- **Stage:** Pre-seed, Seed

- **Cheque:** $50K–$1M

- **Sectors:** Generalist, Deep tech, Hardware / Robotics, Biotech

## Notable investments

- [Positron AI](https://pulse2.com/positron-ai-51-6-million-raised-for-transforming-genai-with-high-performance-compute-systems/amp/) — Series A, 2025-07

## Sources

Sources checked **2026-10-11**.

- [1517 Fund — Website](https://www.1517fund.com)

- [1517 Fund — Post](https://www.1517fund.com/post)

- [pulse2.com — Amp](https://pulse2.com/positron-ai-51-6-million-raised-for-transforming-genai-with-high-performance-compute-systems/amp/)

- [1517 Fund — Llms.txt](https://1517fund.com/llms.txt)

- [1517 Fund — Thesis](https://www.1517fund.com/post/thesis)

- [1517 Fund — Pre seed 2021](https://www.1517fund.com/post/pre-seed-2021)

- [1517 Fund — Anti pitch](https://www.1517fund.com/post/anti-pitch)

- [1517 Fund — Invisible college](https://www.1517fund.com/post/invisible-college)

- [1517 Fund — How to get a killer intro](https://www.1517fund.com/post/how-to-get-a-killer-intro)

- [1517 Fund — 1517 medici project](https://www.1517fund.com/post/1517-medici-project)

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- [Seed Deep tech investors](/resources/investors/seed-deep-tech)

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