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Founder's Box Fund II

Investor type

VC

Founded

2025

AUM

$50 M

Location

New York, New York, United States

Investment Ticket

$0-1 m

Investment Stage

Pre-seed

Region of investment

North America
Investor profile last updated: 01 April, 2026

Profile

Most early-stage founders build remarkable technology and can’t explain it, and that gap kills raises and fails to attract customers. Founder’s Box is the only program that pairs founders one-on-one with elite journalists from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Bloomberg for intensive narrative and investor-readiness training, culminating with select founders on stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Fund I Proved the Model
11,000+ companies applied for 15 spots, making Founder’s Box more selective than Harvard. Our inaugural cohort includes the owner of Forbes and serial founders with elite institutional cap tables. The results speak for themselves:
$21.2M in follow-on capital raised
$10.8M in annual recurring revenue
$50M+ in enterprise pipeline

Now Raising: Fund II
We are now raising Fund II, backed by a fully carry-aligned Media Council that includes Gary Vaynerchuk, John Battelle, and the former editors-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and Inc. & Fast Company. We understood before anyone else that narrative is infrastructure, and Fund I proved it.
thefounderbox.com

Industry

Business Services (B2B) Software AI

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FAQs about Founder's Box Fund II

Founder's Box Fund II is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Pre-seed, writing tickets of $0-1 m.
Founder's Box Fund II is located in New York, New York, United States.
Founder's Box Fund II was founded in 2025.
Founder's Box Fund II invests in companies and startups in Business Services (B2B), Software, AI.
Founder's Box Fund II invests in companies and startups in North America.
Founder's Box Fund II invests in companies and startups at Pre-seed.
Founder's Box Fund II usually invests $0-1 m on average.
Founder's Box Fund II has around $50m assets under management.
Founder's Box Fund II can be reached through its website www.thefounder.box.com and its LinkedIn page. Its general enquiries address is katherine.tarbox@outsidethebox.vc. Cold-mailing a general inbox rarely reaches a partner, so Private Equity List also lists the investment-team contacts for Founder's Box Fund II — names, roles, verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — available on a Pro plan from $129/month (see pricing). Contacts are sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn and re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.
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