An early-stage investment partnership

Back the rare.
Build the enduring.

Nothing Ventured backs product-obsessed founders building consequential companies in AI, software, and consumer technology.

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Our approach

We know the difference between an impressive demo and a product people choose again tomorrow.

We invest our own capital and our operating experience. We are most drawn to founders with an earned insight: a truth about technology or human behavior that is not yet obvious to everyone else.

Our background spans product, design, engineering, company building, and consumer platforms at global scale. We help where craft and judgment matter most—product truth, distribution, organization design, and the long work of building something people love.

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Investments

A representative selection of companies backed directly or through partner-led investment vehicles.

Artificial intelligenceOpenAI
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic
Software creationLovable
AI presentationsGamma
Creative AICaptions
Online educationMasterClass
Internet infrastructureMeter
Acquired by StripeMetronome
Customer operationsFront
Visual collaborationMural
Digital assetsBitwise
Interactive entertainmentthatgamecompany
Acquired by GrammarlyCoda
Acquired by FigmaDiagram
Acquired by GoogleGalileo AI
Acquired by MetaLimitless

Select investments include current and realized positions made personally by the partners and through affiliated vehicles. This is not a complete portfolio. Company names are trademarks of their respective owners; inclusion does not imply endorsement.

The partners

Built by operators who have lived the product questions.

Founding Partner

Mike Sego

Mike is a product and engineering leader, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He has led consumer and social products at Facebook and Oculus, served as CEO of Gaia Online, founded (fluff)Friends, and worked on Gmail at Google. He looks for technical ambition paired with an instinct for what people will actually love.

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Founding Partner

Julie Zhuo

Julie is co-founder of Sundial, former VP of Product Design at Facebook, and author of The Making of a Manager. She partners with founders on product quality, organization design, and building teams with unusually high craft.

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Building something inevitable?

We are most useful before the story is obvious. If you are pursuing a deeply held product insight, we would like to hear it.

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