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Taylor Clauson

Managing Partner, Abstraction CapitalAbstraction Capital

Current Firm

Abstraction Capital

Focus

AI, DevTools

About Taylor Clauson

Taylor Clauson taught himself to code while working in venture capital, then built Abstraction Capital as a solo fund focused exclusively on the "plumbing behind software"—developer tools, devops, and infrastructure—despite not being a professional engineer himself. Operating from Kansas City rather than a coastal hub, he runs a one-man global fund that writes pre-seed and seed checks into highly technical developer-product companies, drawing on an unusual background that includes state-backed tech investing, scaling a cleantech startup to millions in revenue, and IoT/data investing before founding his own firm.

Focus Areas

AIDevToolsEnterpriseFintechSaaS

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+