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title: "About | Mode VC | Official Website"
description: "Learn about Mode VC. We are a frontier technology investment firm backing exceptional founders and empowering them with distribution. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area."
url: "https://modevc.com/about"
publisher: "Mode VC"
date: "2026-10-08"
---

# About Mode VC

Mode VC is a specialized early-stage investment firm founded on the principle that the highest-margin, most enduring companies in the artificial intelligence era will be won through distribution advantage rather than ephemeral model differentiators. We partner with technical founders who pair ruthless execution with innovative distribution architecture.

## Operating Principles
- **Founder Alignment:** Hands-on operational support in go-to-market, distribution tooling, and technical syndicate architecture.
- **Speed of Conviction:** 7 to 14 days from first founder conversation to formal investment commitment.
- **Empirical Grounding:** Decisions informed by live developer telemetry, primary model benchmarks, and quantitative adoption patterns.

## Team & Coordinates
- **Founder:** Mark Liang
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- **Contact:** contact@modevc.com
- **Investment Focus:** $1M – $5M initial commitments