Investing Profile

Rob Hayes

VCInvestor

Partner at First Round Capital

firstround.com/person/rob-hay...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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University of California, Berkeley Network

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Columbia Business School Network

65 CONNECTIONS

First Round Capital Network

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Current Investing Position

First Round Capital Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$738M

Rob Hayes is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Rob Hayes's Investments On Record (25)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Barndoor AI	SeedMay 2025$14M	$14M
Co-investors: Eric Chin (Crosslink Capital), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Scott Banister
ShareWell	Pre SeedFeb 2023$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Kyle Vogt, Charlie Cheever, Adrian Aoun
Mad Realities	SeedApr 2022$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Shawn Xu (Lowercarbon Capital), Rex Woodbury (Index Ventures), Chris Ovitz (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Alexia Bonatsos (Dream Machine), Reggie James, Trevor McFedries, Adar Zango, Nick Caldwell, Alex Adelman, Scott Belsky
Ark Biotech	Pre SeedDec 2021$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Alexis Houssou (Hardware Club), Kevin Carter (Night Capital), David Barber (Astanor Ventures)
Solo Technologies	SeedAug 2021$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Salle Yoo (January Ventures), Jeffrey Wilke
Happs	Series AJun 2021$5M Pre SeedJan 2019	$5M
Co-investors: Ann Lai (Bullpen Capital), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), Phil Schwarz (Corazon Capital), Steve Farsht (Corazon Capital), Bangaly Kaba
Kinema	SeedMay 2021$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Crystal English Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Jarrod Dicker (TCG (The Chernin Group)), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health), Dan Teran (Gutter Capital), Jonah Goodhart (WGI Group), Rich Greenfield (LightShed Ventures), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Kevin Lin, Josh Elman, Diego Berdakin, Joe Proto
Lobus	SeedApr 2021$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Ryan Biggs (Franklin Templeton Investments), Suzy Ryoo (Cross Culture Ventures), Lex Sokolin (Generative Ventures), Troy Carter