Ben Lang

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Mapme enables companies and organizations to leverage maps in order to share their stories, generate more transactions, and improve their customers’ experience. With Mapme, anyone can create stunning, interactive maps with no coding. Our advanced customization features make it easy to achieve the desired look and feel, for any map. Whether you’re a novice or an expert at creating maps, you’ll find the features and solutions you need to build your perfect map with ease.

We are a venture capital firm investing in early stage startups, based in Tel Aviv. We work shoulder to shoulder with exceptional founders with huge dreams that once realized will make the world a better place. Investment Focus: * We value teams that are diverse, supportive of each other and exceptionally committed. * We value software. We value IP. * We value doing over talking. We are more likely to invest our capital in teams that already invested their own resources and actually created something. * We think Global. We appreciate teams that think global from day one, and validate their thesis with their target markets. * We are vertical-agnostic. The world is changing is so fast these days, what’s a vertical anyway?! * We have a preference for startups with Israeli founders. We were Israeli founders. We know the pros and the cons, we think we can help maximize the value of the first while working around the later.