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Dave Fontenot

General Partner, Backend Capital / Hf0Backend Capital / Hf0San Francisco, CA

Current Firm

Backend Capital / Hf0

Investments

10+ companies

Focus

AI, Fintech

About Dave Fontenot

Dave Fontenot lived in monasteries for two years and runs HF0 as a 12-week live-in residency where repeat technical founders share a San Francisco mansion while he handles all logistics so they can focus solely on building, talking to customers, exercising, and sleeping. He built his career evangelizing hackathons across college campuses after co-creating MHacks at University of Michigan, and now selects founders by looking for fire in their eyes while asking himself how scared he would be if he tried to stop them from pursuing their mission.

Focus Areas

AIFintechEnterpriseConsumerBiotechCybersecurityClimateDevToolsRoboticsSaaS

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+

Notable Investments

Julian Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Humba Ventures
Fifty Years
Deep Checks
Founders Fund
Lightspeed
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Funds that lead pre-seeds