CURRENT PORTFOLIO
Our sweet spot is a preseed or seed round for a company building something to free up a developer to focus on value-add activities
Hoss
Developer experience platform
March 2020
Freshpaint
Codelessly connect your site to your marketing and analytics stack
March 2020
Buf
API management and schema design platform
May 2020
Cortex Labs
Cloud infrastructure for machine learning at scale
August 2020
Parabeac
Turn changes in your design files into pull requests for Flutter apps
December 2020
Swell
Infinitely flexible headless e-commerce platform
December 2020
Octane
Monetization platform for usage-based software
March 2021
Canonic
A low-code platform to craft APIs in minutes
March 2021
Wasp
A simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code
April 2021
Axiom
Browser automation. Quickly, without code
May 2021
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stealth
Stealth company in the financial ledger database space
July 2021
CatalyzeX
Discover AI models & code to catalyze your projects
July 2021
Single Origin
Learned semantic intelligence and optimize global queries
September 2021
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stealth
Stealth company in the data engineering space
October 2021
Cased
Use AI to solve production problems faster
November 2021
Model-Prime
Enterprise-grade robotics infrastructure
December 2021
Architect
Dependency-aware continuous delivery platform
December 2021
Quiltt
Low-code fintech infrastructure
December 2021
Unify
The best LLM on every prompt
January 2022
Digma
Observability for developers
February 2022
Jamsocket
Tools for building browser-based applications
March 2022
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stealth
Stealth company in the dynamic configuration space
April 2022
Wilderness Labs
Secure IOT for every developer
June 2022
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stealth
Stealth company redefining the client/server boundary
June 2022
Shuttle
Build backends. Fast.
December 2022
Athenic AI
The natural language interface for cloud data
December 2022
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stealth
Stealth company in the customer support tooling space
February 2023
Oxen
Data mangement for machine learning datasets
March 2023
Poolside
The best code you never wrote
July 2023
Availabl
Plug-and-play AWS monitoring
August 2023
Buddy
The simplest way to offer insurance on the internet
September 2023
Argilla
Open source platform for fine-tuning LLMS
October 2023
vlt
A new home for JavaScript packages
December 2023
YearOne
Growing software engineers, one lesson at a time
March 2024
CopilotKit
AI copilots for your product in hours, not months
July 2024
Prototyper
Prototype your next product in minutes, using AI-powered design tools
August 2024
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Notika AI
No-code notifications. Powered by your database
August 2024
FOUNDER
Taylor Clauson
Founder & Managing Partner
I started Abstraction Capital after a few years of teaching myself how to code. To be clear, no one is going to hire me as a developer, but I realized over the years that the plumbing behind software is both exciting and full of opportunity.
Prior to Abstraction, I spent 7 years at a Kansas City based firm called OpenAir Equity Partners, investing in and building IoT and data companies. My career includes time spent in economic development and a stint at a cleantech startup; I was lucky enough to be in Class 23 of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
I love to read, learn new things, and be outdoors.