Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Designer Fund · Joined 2014
View Live Interactive Profile →Ben Blumenrose spent more than five years as a design lead at Facebook before co-founding Designer Fund in 2014, built on the then-unusual premise that design should shape a company's formation from day one rather than get bolted on after product-market fit. The firm has backed Stripe, Notion, Gusto, and Framer, among others - all still private, so none has produced a public exit yet, but Designer Fund's own materials put the combined value of its portfolio above $80 billion as of its 2022 Fund III close. Blumenrose has built the firm around operators and designers helping founders sharpen product quality and hire design talent, treating design as a compounding strategic advantage rather than a cosmetic layer.