The Boston pre-seed firm does more than write small checks. It builds a scouting system, support network and regional fellowship machine around founders the venture market routinely reaches too late.
Nick Tippmann built an Austin venture fund around a contrarian-sounding idea: the biggest AI companies may begin by obsessing over one narrow industry. TipTop's portfolio now stretches from legal departments and liquor stores to cattle ranches and airspace.
Baukunst writes the first check, then pulls up a workbench. Its experiment is to make a venture fund behave more like a living studio - one where founders, engineers, designers and operators build in public with one another.