Investor Profile: Weekend Fund — Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

Weekend Fund is a deliberately small, early stage venture firm founded in 2017 by Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt, and Vedika Jain, who previously worked at Stripe and TrueLayer. The firm describes itself as living on the internet, with bases in Miami and London. Its first fund was $3 million, and its second fund, Weekend Fund 2.0, was $10 million. The size of its latest fund is not publicly disclosed in the firm's own materials reviewed for this profile.

Investment thesis

Weekend Fund invests in startups capitalising on shifts in consumer behaviour or technology. It says plainly that it does not invest in resumes. What it seeks instead is a bias towards action and a founder with unique insight into a market, and it adds that the earlier the better. Historically it highlighted future of audio and voice, tools for distributed teams and remote workers, and low code and no code tools, but it also stressed staying open minded at the earliest stage. That openness shows in a portfolio spanning consumer and business software, health, crypto infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.

Sectors and stages

The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stage, and also between rounds, at post-seed and pre-Series A. Its typical cheque is $100,000 to $300,000. It works as a collaborative investor rather than a conventional lead investor, so founders usually need a lead to price and anchor the round, with Weekend Fund joining alongside. Support is practical: product strategy, community building, and go-to-market planning, plus fundraising introductions, press, recruiting, and marketing help. Its network of operator and founder limited partners is central to that support, giving companies access to people who built products at firms such as Stripe, Figma, and Airbnb.

Notable portfolio / track record

The firm's portfolio page lists Deel, the global human resources and payroll platform, Pipe, the embedded finance company, Fin, formerly Intercom, MoonPay, the crypto payments infrastructure company, Voiceflow, the platform for building artificial intelligence agents, InVideo, the artificial intelligence video platform, Function Health, the advanced health testing company, and Atlys, the fast travel visa service. Its first fund backed 40 startups, mostly in the United States, with others in Canada, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, plus one fully distributed team.

How to apply for funding

There is no application form. Founders can email Ryan Hoover at [email protected] or Vedika Jain at [email protected]. The firm avoids agenda-free coffee meetings and prefers specific asks, so a short, clear note works best. Lead with what is shifting in consumer behaviour or technology, what you have built, and why you are the person to build it. Include the round you are raising and whether a lead investor is already in place, because Weekend Fund typically joins a round rather than leading it. If you are at side project stage, show what you have shipped, since action is the signal the firm says it weights most heavily.