The first surprise about Everywhere Ventures is how little mystery it puts around the check. The number sits right on the homepage: $250,000. No theatrical range, no vague promise to invest from a few thousand to several million, no invitation to decode which partner has conviction. The New York firm writes that check into pre-seed rounds, usually rounds totaling between $500,000 and $2 million, at the moment when a company may have more nerve than revenue.
The second surprise is who stands behind it. More than 500 founders and operators are limited partners in Everywhere's funds. They are not merely names on a quarterly email. The firm says they send deals, offer sector judgment, help with diligence, make introductions and advise portfolio companies. The arrangement turns the usual venture funnel into something closer to a circulatory system. A founder enters looking for money, gains a community and may eventually feed experience, contacts and capital back into the same network.
That loop has produced a wide map: more than 300 portfolio companies in over 30 countries, with more than $100 million under management. The list ranges from Pair Eyewear and finance software company Cube to health data business Particle Health, payments intelligence platform Spade and dozens of companies most people outside their industries have not yet met. At pre-seed, anonymity is often the point. The work begins before the category is obvious.
A local joke gets a passport
Everywhere started in 2018 under the disarmingly generic name The Fund. Jenny Fielding, then known for running Techstars New York, and investor and author Scott Hartley assembled a group of New York founders and operators to pool money and back new local companies. The name was knowingly comic. Fielding later told TechCrunch that most of the good tree names were taken.
The joke developed logistics. By 2020, The Fund was expanding into Los Angeles and London with local investment committees. Other communities followed, including the Rockies, Austin, the Midwest and Australia. The portfolio pulled the partners farther than the brand did. Deals arrived from Brazil, Nigeria and other places outside the original city-based boxes. Fielding and Hartley kept making exceptions until the exceptions described the business better than the rule.
In April 2023, the firm announced a $25 million global fund and changed its name to Everywhere Ventures. It had already deployed more than $50 million into more than 250 companies. The rebrand did not create the global strategy so much as confess it. A firm that had started with window seats on the New York startup scene was now spending plenty of time in airplane seats.
The product is a check. The service is context.
Everywhere's customer is a technology founder early enough to need a first institutional believer. The company may be pre-revenue, pre-category or still discovering who buys the product. That makes pre-seed investing a peculiar service business. Capital is necessary, but one wire transfer looks much like another. The practical questions start the next morning: Which first sales hire can work without a playbook? Is this health claim credible? Which later-stage investor understands a company in Lagos? Who has seen this particular supply-chain failure?
The 500-person network is designed to answer those questions with lived experience. It also expands the firm's sightline. An operator close to a technical market can recognize a good founder before that founder appears on a familiar conference circuit. Local members can supply cultural and commercial context that a New York investment team lacks. Decisions still sit with accountable investors rather than a popular vote, but more eyes can identify the interesting edge cases.
“The most telling number is not the size of the check. It is the number of people willing to pick up the phone after it clears.”YesPress analysis
Founders can use Everywhere in three concrete ways. They can apply for a first check through the firm's public pitch route. Portfolio companies can recruit through its job board and seek introductions across the network. And experienced founders or operators can participate from the other side as LPs, scouts and helpers. In 2021, the firm also reported completing more than 40 special-purpose vehicles, allowing interested LPs to support later rounds without forcing the core pre-seed fund to become a growth investor.
Generalist, with three things on its mind
A 300-company portfolio inevitably looks unruly. Everywhere has invested in fintech, healthcare, enterprise software, consumer goods, AI, deep tech, supply chain, climate, security, gaming and space. Rather than pretend these fit one narrow vertical, the partners introduced a broad framework in 2023: the “Table Stakes Economy,” organized around the future of money, health and work.
The categories are less a screen than a way to read technological change. Payments, insurance and financial access sit under money. Care delivery, diagnostics and health infrastructure sit under health. Collaboration, payroll, automation and talent tools sit under work. Enterprise AI and deep technology can run through all three. This makes Everywhere a generalist fund with recurring expertise rather than a specialist fund with a rigid boundary.
Its business model remains conventional at the base. Limited partners commit capital to pooled funds. Everywhere buys minority equity stakes. The fund earns when enough of those stakes become more valuable and liquid; fee and carried-interest terms are not public. The community model changes the operating layer, not the laws of venture returns. It may improve access and support, but a portfolio this broad still faces the old power-law arithmetic: a small number of companies must produce much of the outcome.
The bars above show the firm's stated areas of emphasis, not percentages of invested capital. Everywhere does not publish a current sector allocation.
Where it sits in the seed market
Everywhere competes with micro-VCs, angel syndicates, accelerators and larger seed funds willing to write an early check. Founder Collective shares the founder-friendly language. Hustle Fund and Precursor Ventures also live close to first-check territory. Techstars and Y Combinator combine capital with a network and a recognizable signal. Afore, Pear and other pre-seed specialists offer concentrated early-stage attention.
The firm's distinction is the combination: a predictable $250,000 check, a large founder and operator LP base, and genuinely global intent. For a founder, the pitch is that the network can remain useful beyond the next milestone. Pair Eyewear's founders have credited Everywhere with making introductions to the leads of their Series A, B and C rounds. Cube co-founder Christina Ross has said the community remained a resource even after larger funds arrived.
There are trade-offs. A standard check cannot carry a capital-intensive company far. Global breadth can become thin local knowledge if the network does not stay active. A community with hundreds of members needs curation, privacy and clear decision rights. And the harder fundraising environment that Fielding has called the “Series A chasm” means a pre-seed firm must prepare founders for milestones that later investors now judge more severely.
Still, the model contains a stealable idea for businesses outside venture capital: do not treat your best users as a cheering section. Give them a job in the system. Everywhere's founders can become customers of one another, talent sources, references, market experts, investors and scouts. Each role makes the network more useful to the next entrant. The fund did not invent community-led investing, but it has made the loop unusually visible.
A wider partnership
The partnership itself widened in February 2026 when Anna Barber joined as a general partner. Barber had been a founder, operator, Techstars LA managing director and investing partner at M13. Her arrival added a more institutional lead-investor perspective to a firm that still describes itself in founder-first terms. It also marked a new phase for a company long identified tightly with Fielding and Hartley.
Everywhere now has the assets, portfolio count and media operation of an established platform. Its Venture Everywhere podcast lets founders interview founders. Its publication profiles portfolio leaders. Jenny Fielding's 2025 book, also titled Venture Everywhere, carried the geographic thesis into stories about entrepreneurs building far from the usual centers of attention.
The name risks sounding grander than any one fund can be. Everywhere is, after all, a very large place. But the useful claim is smaller and more testable: a good company can begin outside the old map, and the person best equipped to recognize it may already have built something nearby. Put enough of those people in the fund, send a clear first check and keep the introductions moving. That is the machine.
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Founders can inspect the portfolio, read the firm's investment criteria, browse open jobs or hear the partners explain the model in their own voices.