Setting up the board…

Romaine.st — early-stage venture capital. First checks of $250K–$2M, before you pass GO.

ROLL THE DICE ↓

START HERE · THE FIRM

Early-stage venture capital.
Played properly.

Romaine St writes first checks into startups at pre-seed and seed — backing founders the moment they pass GO, not three laps later.

  • Software
  • AI & agents
  • Consumer
  • Fintech
  • Hardware

GO

Collect $200K…
we meant $2M.

Every founder starts at GO with a token and too much conviction. We write first checks in days — before the metrics, before the momentum, sometimes before the name. The best returns on the board come from the longest laps.

  • First-check lead
  • $250K – $2M
  • Decision in 5 days
  • Founder refs on ask

THE PORTFOLIO

We buy green houses.
Founders build red hotels.

Three companies on the board — we’re just getting started, and we like it that way. Every empire here begins as a single green house on a street nobody’s watching yet.

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FANFORCE

Infrastructure · 2025

  • Pre-seedfirst check
  • Seedled the round
  • Series Anot yet
  • Hotel statuspending
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APP YOURS

Consumer software · 2025

  • Pre-seedfirst check
  • Seedco-led
  • Series A—
  • Hotel status2 houses
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YOU?

Anything · now

  • Pre-seedready when you are
  • Seedreserved
  • Series Alet’s find out
  • Hotel status🦄 unicorn

SHOOT YOUR SHOT

The market deals.
You play.

Chance favours the prepared founder. Draw a card — this is roughly how venture feels.

?CHANCE

CHANCE

tap to return

DRAW A CHANCE

▣COMMUNITY ROUND

COMMUNITY ROUND

tap to return

DRAW FROM THE ROUND

NO LOCK-IN

Keys, not handcuffs.

Down rounds, legal surprises, co-founder splits. We’ve sat on the right side of the table through all of it — our job is handing you the get-out card before you need it.

GET OUT OF A DOWN ROUND, FREE

Bridge reserves, honest term sheets, and a partner who answers the phone at 11pm.

FREE COFFEE

Office hours.
No deck required.

Every Friday the partners sit at FREE COFFEE and take walk-ins. Bring a napkin sketch, a prototype, or a problem you can’t stop thinking about. Parking is, naturally, free.

  • Fridays · 9–12
  • 15-min slots
  • No warm intro needed

WE ARE ROMAINE ST

The most valuable address
is the one you build.

Boardwalk was bought. Romaine Street gets built — one green house at a time, by founders who keep rolling. We’d like to be your first investor on it.

2025est. · Fund I
3companies — so far
0red hotels — yet
∞rolls ahead

Your move.

Two dice. One inbox. Statistically, we reply.

The bank never wins here. Founders do.