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Designer Fund invests $500K–$1.5M in early-stage companies where design is core to how value gets created. Apply for funding by letting our AI tool, Crit, review your deck or memo below. Crit will share feedback directly to your inbox.

If it's a fit, you'll hear from us.

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If your startup looks like a fit, we'll be in touch at the email you provided.

A note on Crit: this is an AI-enabled tool we built so our small team can give more founders a real look (instead of the usual VC black hole). The feedback you get is generated by an LLM, so it can vary and isn't perfect — bear with us. We think it's still genuinely useful, and we'd love to hear what you think of it.

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