Focal

#1: 2023 tech reality check

#2: Pocket guide of essential YC advice

-------

👋 - Looking For Pre-Seed Funding?

At focal, we lead pre-seed rounds backing software / platform / infrastructure builders across the 🇺🇸/ 🇨🇦 reinventing how industries operate and business is done.

read it on substack

Featured Resources

June 6, 2023

January 29, 2025

Introducing findfunding.vc 🧨

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our open source VC database - findfunding.vc

company news

April 26, 2023

January 29, 2025

focal is live 👋

We just launched our firm's new name and bold brand: focal

company news

June 13, 2025

Speed Is Your Only Advantage

(3/3) Chewing glass through endless pivots: The pivot playbook with Han Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Mintlify who found product-market-fit after 8 pivots in 14 months.

pascal's notes

June 12, 2025

If, when, and how to Pivot: Lessons from 8 Pivots in 14 Months

(2/3) Chewing glass through endless pivots: The pivot playbook with Han Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Mintlify who found product-market-fit after 8 pivots in 14 months.

pascal's notes

June 11, 2025

Bet on a Space You Care About, Not a Specific Idea

(1/3) Chewing glass through endless pivots: The pivot playbook with Han Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Mintlify who found product-market-fit after 8 pivots in 14 months.

pascal's notes

July 13, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#8: The VC Rebrand Guide

Rebranding and revamping your website is no easy task. We lay out step-by-step how we did it for focal, all the way to launch.

brick by brick

April 12, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#7: Navigating Year-End

Now that the busy year-end season is (mostly) behind us, we look back at the operational lessons we've learned in the last six months.

brick by brick

March 20, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#6: On Point Offsite

In January, we had a week-long team offsite across Virginia & Miami. While the primary draw was to see each other, reconnect, & align, we also got a ton of work done. Here's what we learned.

brick by brick

No items found.

June 11, 2025

5YF Episode #38: Graphite Co-Founder & CEO Merrill Lutsky

The 100X Engineer, Vibe Coding Bottlenecks, Agents As Evaluators, AI Roll-ups w/ Graphite Co-Founder & CEO Merrill Lutsky

5 year frontier

May 14, 2025

June 11, 2025

5YF Episode #37: AIRCO Co-Founder & CEO Greg Constantine

Global Energy Race, Creating With Carbon, CO2 As Fuel, Powering Mars w/ AIRCO Co-Founder & CEO Greg Constantine

5 year frontier

April 30, 2025