Iman Bright

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.

A private, non-sectarian liberal arts university in Middletown, Conn., founded in 1831, Wesleyan offers its 2,900 undergraduates and 200 graduate students a demanding educational environment that fosters creative, independent and experimental work.