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The Fund Run by Founders Who Already Did the Hard Part
A micro-fund out of Palo Alto backs early-stage AI and deep-tech founders with small checks and an unusual promise: the people cutting them have already scaled companies of their own.
Almanac Beer Co.
Almanac Beer Co. is an Alameda, California craft brewery founded in 2010 by Jesse Friedman and Damian Fagan. Known first for oak-aged sours and farm-to-barrel ales inspired by the Bay Area's seasonal produce, the company has reinvented itself as 'Almanac Adventureland' - a 30,000+ square-foot brewery, beer garden and family entertainment destination inside a restored 1940s naval hangar, complete with arcade games, sandboxes, pizza, food pop-ups and festivals that draw up to 3,000 visitors on a peak day.
ZENOPS
ZENOPS (styled ZenOps) is a San Francisco Bay Area managed IT services provider based in Pleasant Hill, California, serving small and mid-sized organizations across healthcare, legal, nonprofit, education, real estate, and municipal sectors. Formerly known as Neighborhood Computers, the firm pairs day-to-day IT support with cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, unified communications, and its signature 'Harmonious Workflow' approach - evaluating how a whole organization actually uses technology, then removing the repetitive tasks and friction so teams can get back to their real work.