Chauncey Kerr Hamilton

Highway Benefits is an employee benefits platform that increases retention and attraction of top talent through modernized benefits. Highways first product, a student loan matching platform, allows employers to design a custom plan which gives them the ability to contribute to their employees student loans.

Rootly is an incident management platform on Slack that helps automate manual admin work during incidents. Leading companies such as NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, OpenSea, Figma, and countless others trust Rootly to build a consistent incident response process. See why they rate us 5 stars on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/rootly-manage-incidents-on-slack/reviews

Highway Benefits is an employee benefits platform that increases retention and attraction of top talent through modernized benefits. Highways first product, a student loan matching platform, allows employers to design a custom plan which gives them the ability to contribute to their employees student loans.

Rootly is an incident management platform on Slack that helps automate manual admin work during incidents. Leading companies such as NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, OpenSea, Figma, and countless others trust Rootly to build a consistent incident response process. See why they rate us 5 stars on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/rootly-manage-incidents-on-slack/reviews

We invest in founders at the earliest stages building across the public sector, fintech, enterprise, climate, and tech-forgotten industries. What they have in common: 1) they’re taking on big problems with goals to make seismic shifts in our society, 2) they want to go faster, flat out, and 3) they have a key insight but still make *doing the work* their unfair advantage.

We back the best university and recent alumni founders — like Cursor, Dandy, RapidSOS, and Shield AI — with a network of investors, mentors, and their first check.

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.