about the fund
Wayfinder invests time and money at the earliest stages of your journey, sometimes before you've even picked a name.
We've been there
We are founders and engineers. We've started startups, raised money, hired people, built teams, and did the non scalable things. We've experienced the highs of being a founder, and we've also experienced the lows. Startups are a marathon, and we've run it. We want to help you run yours.
How we help
Our job doesn't stop when we write the check; that's when it starts. We'll do office hours, help you with your early sales, your early hires, and your go-to-market. We'll be there to help you interview your early team, and when you have to make hard decisions.
Who we love
We love founders who live and breathe their product. The ones who've experienced the pain points themselves and have an intense, personal passion for solving them. Visionaries with deep domain expertise and insights, not just big ideas. You're relentlessly resourceful, scrappy, and obsess over the smallest product details because you know those add up to something great.
our thesis
Does the world really need another VC fund? If you ask a VC, the answer is always no.
If you ask a founder, they'll tell you there's still a shortage of people willing to be the first to bet on them. Who not only write a check, but actually spend time with them. Who undersand.
For us, that understanding comes from nearly a decade as founders where we've made our fair share of mistakes.
It also comes from feeling, first hand, the highs and lows involved with running a startup and still loving the journey.
We've had the good fortune to learn from 1,000+ startups, and invest in iconic unicorn founders. We've learned from them what greatness truly looks like.
With Wayfinder, our goal is to have all of these lessons benefit the next generation of founders.
the fund in numbers
Introducing Wayfinder II — a $35M seed-stage fund investing $300k-$1M checks in founders building enduring companies solving tomorrow's hard problems.
$85M+
Assets under management
$2 Billion
Combined Portoflio Valuation
80+
Startups Partnered With
200+
Founders
Yuri Sagalov
Yuri Sagalov is the founder and Managing Partner of Wayfinder Ventures, a seed-stage B2B focused fund. Prior to Wayfinder, Yuri was a partner at Y Combinator from 2014-2018 and also an active angel investor who seed invested in over a half dozen unicorns with a combined enterprise value of over $25B. Yuri is also a former Y Combinator alumni and founder and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science with a Computer Engineering major from the University of Toronto.
When not spending time with founders, Yuri's happy place is flying or sailing.
in the press
industries we invest in
Finance
Enterprise Software
B2B
AI
Manufacturing
Technology
Robotics
Recent Updates
Read more
Wayfinder is a venture capital fund.