Seed-stage fund firm Tuesday Capital announced it had added Ethan Imboden, a long-time collaborator, as a partner. Imboden joins the team after 10 years at global design & strategy consulting firm frog, where he founded and led the venture practice and investment arm.
Tuesday Capital, which is known for its early-stage investments in 350+ startups, including Airtable, Gitlab, Cruise, Zipline, Human Interest, Solugen, Oklo, Kueski, and Digital Ocean, has been backing founders at the inception of their companies since 2011. As a San Francisco Bay Area native now based in France, Imboden will invest globally while also anchoring the firm’s new presence in Europe.
Tuesday Capital joins founders at the start of their journey, collaborating with them through the earliest steps of getting their startups off the ground. And the firm is known for bringing its extensive network and company-building support alongside its capital, earning a reputation in the venture ecosystem for rolling up its sleeves with portfolio companies while being complementary and additive to co-investors.
The team at the firm is now investing from their fifth fund, where returning founders make up more than a third of the new companies that are being backed.
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“At Tuesday, we operate as a startup that backs other startups. Ethan spent a decade as a VC-backed founder followed by a decade of supporting and investing behind founders, so his experience matches the Tuesday ethos perfectly. He and I have already been working together for over 7 years and he has helped many of our portfolio companies over that time. Our success as a firm hinges on providing timely, tangible value to founders, helping them build their businesses from the outset. Ethan’s background in design, engineering and entrepreneurship augments what Tuesday can deliver to our portfolio companies.”
- Patrick Gallagher, Cofounder and Managing Partner of Tuesday Capital
“Tuesday Capital has pressure-tested and honed its strategy across five funds and nearly fifteen years, while consistently delivering for both founders and investors. With their continuous focus on outcomes rather than optics, Pat and his team have built a firm that’s efficient, independently-minded, and complementary to the entire early-stage technology ecosystem. This approach has always resonated with me, and I’m excited to officially join the team.”
- Ethan Imboden, Partner at Tuesday Capital
