Pre-seed Capital
We find founders on merit, back them when they see something the market hasn't, and work alongside them on the go-to-market motion that turns conviction into a company.
PAX is the first pre-seed investor to combine funding with structured B2B sales foundation
Merit
Most pre-seed firms find founders through their networks and their friends' networks. We don't. We've built a wider aperture that surfaces founders by what they're building, not who they know.
Go To Market
We think the best founders carry a go-to-market instinct alongside their product instinct—and we've built a program to help develop it. Short evening sessions over several weeks, built around the actual mechanics of B2B sales. The aim is a toolbox for when something in your funnel stops working.
Why Now
We invest where something has fundamentally changed and a founder saw it before the rest of the market did. Timing isn't luck; it's the founder's insight into why this opportunity exists now and why it didn't a year ago.
Our Philosophy
Venture Scale
New technology makes a lot of problems easy to solve—and those aren't the ones we can back. We're looking for problems that are important and hard, where the answer requires real intellectual property, real capital, and the kind of moat that compounds into a platform.
Founders
The strongest signal we've found in founders is a history of execution under difficulty. We want to see what someone has already done—how they've led, what they've solved, what they've endured—because the startup ahead of them will demand more of the same. We also believe in complementary co-founders: teams whose differences sharpen each other, not duplicate each other.
We back B2B technology products. The specific category matters less to us than the founder's read on it—we'd rather follow conviction into a corner we hadn't considered than chase a space we've already labeled.
Verticals
How It Works
01
We Invest Early
PAX writes checks between $200-500K as first money in or after F&F.
02
Sales Development
Live, structured, sales & GTM practices. Just 6 hours a week during a virtual 4-week program
03
You Raise and Scale
Through our investor network and strategic support
We invest in the U.S. and Canada and occasionally Europe. We target a 5% ownership with our investment.
Scale with Confidence
Your product isn't the risk. The real risk is building without knowing what's working or why.
PAX helps founders move from early wins to a repeatable sales process.
We’ve partnered with over 60 founders, who unanimously agree that the PAX program offers something that can’t be found anywhere else.
Trusted by Founders Who Care About Scale
PAX was pivotal in our journey. The program was top-notch and helped us transition from founder-led sales...they got us in front of top-tier investors, including one that ended up leading our seed round.
Sherrod
CEO EcoMap
I’ve had the privilege to meet and work with hundreds of Venture Capitalists over the years, and I can confidently say PAX is in a league of its own.
Matt
CEO ClearCOGS
I have a lot more confidence in my sales process now. It feels like the biggest challenge has switched to onboarding and growing contracts after landing them.
Martina
CEO Lara Health