Amy Fu
Vice President
First Round Capital
Amy Fu is a Vice President at First Round Capital. Her official profile places her at a firm focused exclusively on the earliest stages of company building.
Bio
Professional summary
Bill Trenchard is a Partner at First Round. His official profile describes him as a repeat founder who started two businesses as an undergraduate: LiveOps, a cloud contact center company that he scaled to $100 million in sales, and Jump Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft. Before joining First Round in 2012, he invested as an angel and as a Partner at Founder Collective in companies including Uber, IronPort, Adroll, PowerSet, Lending Club, HomeRun, Tapulous, Slide, and Chegg. At First Round, his listed investments include Looker, Verkada, Flexport, EvolutionIQ, Together AI, Superhuman, Rillet, and Serval. His profile explicitly says he looks for pre-product-market-fit founders who go deeply into complex problems.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
pre-product-market fitearly-stageseed-stage
Sector
AI infrastructureenterprise softwarelogisticssecurityfinancial technologyhealthcare claims technologyproductivity software
Thesis
pre-product-market-fit founderscomplex problem spaces with unconventional solutionsAI infrastructureenterprise software and securitylogistics and operational infrastructure
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
UberIronPortAdrollPowerSetLending ClubHomeRunTapulousSlideCheggLookerVerkadaFlexportEvolutionIQTogether AISuperhumanRilletServal
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Strong fit for pre-PMF founders attacking complex, deeply technical or operational problems with unusual insight and founder-market depth.
Personalization hooks
- 1Show that the team has gone unusually deep into the problem’s mechanics, not just market-level analysis.
- 2If relevant, connect to AI infrastructure, enterprise operations, logistics, security, or metabolic-health-adjacent personal interest.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Official profile lists Together AI, Rillet, and Serval among companies he has backed at First Round.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- First Round CapitalPartner
Education
- Cornell UniversityDegree
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