Technical conviction
We recognize hard-won technical truth before the market has a name for it.
Anti Fund / For anti-consensus founders
Capital is a commodity. Attention is not.
We back technical founders building the future, then help the world understand why it matters.
01 / The Anti Fund Edge
See the future early. Make it impossible to ignore.
Capital can fund a company. Attention helps it recruit believers, win trust, shape a category, and move the culture. Anti Fund pairs technical judgment with uncommon reach so anti-consensus founders can turn breakthroughs into defining companies.
Earned attention
We help the right talent, customers, partners, and public understand why the company matters.
Founder leverage
We stay close when product, narrative, talent, and timing can compound the mission.
02 / Investment Thesis
Conviction before consensus.
Axiom I
The best founders are anti before they are obvious.
Axiom II
Technical truth creates the edge. Distribution compounds it.
Anti Fund looks for companies that can define the standard in AI, robotics, defense, energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, software, and selective consumer markets. The sector matters, but the inflection matters more.
At the earliest stage, taste and non-consensus insight dominate. At growth, the test becomes technical durability, customer pull, and the ability to turn an early advantage into an institution.
What We Look For
Technical edge
A product, model, system, or operating capability that capital alone cannot copy.
Founder obsession
Builders who have lived with the problem long enough to see around corners.
Customer urgency
A painful need and evidence that users will change behavior now, not someday.
Non-consensus timing
A precise view of what changed before the market has settled on a category.
Compounding attention
The ability to turn trust and relevance into customers, talent, and financing.
Category ambition
A credible path to define the market standard rather than join the segment.
03 / Portfolio
Selected investments.
More selected investmentsExplore by theme
AI, Infrastructure & National Resilience
No.NameDescriptionStageSince
An applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.
Stage
Series D/Series C/Series B
Since
2024
Software, Finance & Applied AI
No.NameDescriptionStageSince
Risk management and insurance infrastructure for ambitious businesses.
Stage
Seed
Since
2024
05
LighterA fully verifiable decentralized exchange built with custom ZK infrastructure, inheriting Ethereum security and composability.
Stage
Series B
Since
2025
05A fully verifiable decentralized exchange built with custom ZK infrastructure, inheriting Ethereum security and composability.
Series B
2025Consumer Platforms & Brands
No.NameDescriptionStageSince
Realized & Public Outcomes
No.NameDescriptionStageSince
01
Chronosphere*Observability platform. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $3.35B.
Stage
Exit/Seed
Since
2019
02
RailStablecoin payments infrastructure. Seed investment in June 2022. Acquired by Ripple for $200M.
Stage
Exit/Seed
Since
2022
02Stablecoin payments infrastructure. Seed investment in June 2022. Acquired by Ripple for $200M.
Exit/Seed
202204
MetisPost-training and continual-learning layer for enterprise agents. Acquired by DoorDash in March 2026.
Stage
Exit/Seed
Since
2025
04Post-training and continual-learning layer for enterprise agents. Acquired by DoorDash in March 2026.
Exit/Seed
2025* Personal investment
04 / How We Work
Capital only matters if it changes the company's odds.
Anti Fund works directly on the decisions with compounding consequences. The job is not to perform helpfulness. It is to create useful pressure, access, and signal when the next move matters.
01
Product & positioning
We pressure-test what to build, what to cut, and what has to be true for customers and the market to care.
02
Customers & distribution
We turn product truth into market pull through customer sequencing, partner access, launch timing, and narrative discipline.
03
Capital & talent
We help create leverage for financing and senior hiring: the right people, in the right order, with a reason to move now.
04
Consequential decisions
We stay close through product resets, board pressure, financing forks, and the operating choices that change the company's trajectory.
05 / Team
Team.
01
Geoff Woo
Co-founder & Managing Partner
02
Jake Paul
Co-founder & Managing Partner
03
Logan Paul
General Partner
04
Steve Han
Partner
Partner biographies
Geoff Woo
Geoff Woo is an entrepreneur and engineer. He co-founded Archive, Ketone-IQ, and W. His first company, Glassmap (YC S11), was acquired by Groupon. He earned a BS with Honors & Distinction in Computer Science at Stanford University and is co-inventor and co-author of numerous US patents and peer-reviewed science papers.
Jake Paul
Jake Paul is an entrepreneur and professional boxer. His Paul vs Tyson event reached 65M peak concurrent streams on Netflix, he was a top five most Googled athlete in 2024, and he has built companies across sports, gaming, and consumer as founder of Most Valuable Promotions, Betr, and W.
Logan Paul
Logan Paul is an entrepreneur, creator, and professional wrestler. He co-founded PRIME, hosts Impaulsive, and brings operating experience across consumer brands, media, sports, and global distribution.
Steve Han
Steve Han previously invested at March Capital and worked at Deutsche Bank. Born in Korea and raised across India and China, he holds degrees in Economics and Environmental Economics & Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He also served in the ROK Army as secretary to the Commanding General of the 17th Infantry Division.
06 / Founder References
What founders say after the wire.
The useful measure of a venture partner is the work founders can name: customers closed, executives recruited, rounds shaped, and difficult decisions made with better signal.
Operating Evidence
"Geoff was one of the earliest investors for both Ramp and Paribus, and he is a trusted advisor and a key strategic sounding board. With Ramp, Geoff has directly boosted our topline revenue and growth by introducing us to and helping us close key customers and hire superstar executives. Geoff is on my shortlist to bring onboard for any company I'm involved with."
CEO & Co-founder, Ramp
"Geoff was one of our first investors and committed to backing Chronosphere before our company was even set up. He is incredibly networked in tech and investor circles and has been a key strategic thought partner. He is one of those rare humans that wields deep technical, product, and business expertise."
CTO & Co-founder, Chronosphere
More founder references
"Thanks for all of support! Couldn't ask for a better partner."
CEO, Metis
"Geoff is an incredible visionary with sharp intuition. As our earliest investor, he has consistently given advice that proves true time and time again. His strong connections with the most influential minds in Silicon Valley are the exact fuel that early-stage founders can only dream of. Essentially, he brings his A-game. Founders just need to bring theirs."
Gun Choi
CEO & Co-founder, Linedot
"Geoff and Steve are one of the best partners to have as a founder. They are incredibly well connected - Geoff introduced us to Karim from Ramp who became our investor. Steve is always responsive, pushing us to think in unconventional angles. I would highly recommend Anti Fund to any exceptional founders."
CEO & Co-founder, Pensive
"Anti Fund was our first investor and a key sounding board for strategic decisions. They're direct and candid when it matters, skipping unnecessary niceties in favor of clear, actionable support. Geoff has been my most valuable investor from the start, pushing me towards market-validated technical verticals and a business development approach focused on generating meaningful signal before noise."
CEO & Co-founder, Efference
Independent validation
"No other GP on the AngelList platform - out of hundreds of qualifying investors - beats the Anti Fund along both of these axes. It follows that Geoff and Jake may be able to justify a claim to being the "best investors on AngelList", in the sense that there's no other GP that dominates them along the data-driven axes that we believe can help to predict future investment performance."
Abraham Othman
Former Chief Data Scientist, AngelList & CIO, Strawberry Tree Management Company LLC
07 / Media & Field Notes
In conversation. On the ground.
Conversations and field visits show the thesis in practice: how Anti Fund thinks, where the team spends time, and which technical shifts matter before they become consensus.
a16z / The a16z Show
Jake Paul & Geoff Woo on Anti Fund, investing, and compounding attention
Anti Fund's growth strategy, the firm's origin story, founder taste, and why attention compounds as an operating advantage.
Field visit / Anduril
Anti Fund visits Anduril with Palmer Luckey
A look inside autonomous defense systems, American manufacturing, and the technologies reshaping national resilience.
Archive
Appendix A / FAQ
Questions founders and investors ask.
Our venture strategy backs technical founders at pre-seed and seed. Our growth and opportunities strategy makes concentrated growth and pre-IPO investments. The current focus is AI, robotics, defense, energy, semiconductors, manufacturing, frontier infrastructure, and selective software and consumer technology.
Anti Fund forms conviction at pre-seed and seed, then makes concentrated growth and pre-IPO investments in category leaders. The stage changes; the standard does not.
Most firms choose between technical underwriting and distribution. Anti Fund combines both. Attention is not promotion for its own sake; it is useful when it helps a company recruit exceptional people, earn customer trust, win financing, and become legible before consensus catches up.
We stay close during consequential moments: product launches, financing rounds, senior hires, customer introductions, narrative resets, board pressure, and strategic forks where the next decision changes the company.
We invest between $250K-$30M+. We are comfortable both leading and participating.
We build long-term relationships with a limited group of aligned LPs. Prospective investors can contact ir@antifund.com.