Wayfinder Ventures

Wayfinder Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital fund founded by Yuri Sagalov, a former Y Combinator partner (2014–2018) and founder of AeroFS, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wayfinder invests time and money at the earliest stages of a founder's journey, sometimes before they've even picked a name. The firm goes beyond writing checks, offering office hours, early sales and go-to-market support, and hands-on help interviewing early hires, drawing on the team's own decade of founder experience building and scaling startups. Wayfinder invests across B2B, enterprise software, fintech, AI, manufacturing, and robotics, with an $85M+ AUM, 80+ portfolio companies, and a combined portfolio valuation of $2B. Notable investments include Supabase, Stoke Space, Dagger, Decagon, Browserbase, and AstroForge. Its current $35M Fund II writes $300K–$1M checks. The firm's investment approach prioritizes relationships over transactions, favoring founders with deep domain expertise and personal passion for the problems they're solving, while emphasizing diversity of thought, intellectual humility, and transparency as core evaluation criteria alongside commercial sophistication.