Jackie Berardo is a human at Designer Fund, involved in reviewing applications and attending founder retreats. The fund invests in design-centric companies from Pre-Seed to Series A.
At firms with a similar stage, sector and check size.
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Raising a pre-seed or seed round? We write $1M to $5M first checks and help founders with distribution. A partner reads every deck.
Send your deckJackie Berardo is a human at Designer Fund, involved in reviewing applications and attending founder retreats. The fund invests in design-centric companies from Pre-Seed to Series A.
Jackie Berardo invests through Designer Fund, which writes checks of $250K to $500K at pre-seed, seed, series a.
A warm intro from a founder Designer Fund backed works best. A short LinkedIn note with one line on traction is the next best route.
researcher at Meta; co-founder at Surge.
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