Anti Fund, led by Managing Partners Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul, today announced the closing of its oversubscribed $100 million Anti Fund Growth I. With the close of Growth I, Anti Fund’s assets under management are now north of $180 million.
Growth I formalizes the second half of Anti Fund’s barbell strategy. The firm’s venture fund, Venture I, is focused on the earliest stages, where Anti Fund looks for founders before consensus has a clean label for the category. Growth I concentrates capital behind companies where technical edge, product judgment, customer urgency, and market timing are turning into institutional-scale value. Through Venture I and Growth I, Anti Fund now backs founders before the market sees them, and again just before they begin defining it.
Growth I has already built positions in OpenAI, Anduril, SpaceX, Cognition, Saronic, Etched, Helion, Erebor, and Modal, among other companies across artificial intelligence, frontier infrastructure, defense, robotics, energy, and pre-IPO technology. The portfolio reflects a firm that continues to be invited into some of the most competitive rounds in venture.
“Anti Fund was built to back exceptional founders before the market fully understands them. Venture I lets us invest at the earliest stages, when taste and conviction matter most. Growth I lets us keep backing and turbocharging the same kind of founders later, when they are running the companies that define our generation.” — Geoffrey Woo, Managing Partner, Anti Fund
The fund is backed by a global base of limited partners, including Aquarian Holdings, an anchor investor across both Anti Fund Venture I and Growth I through its investment advisory platform, which manages approximately $27.1 billion in AUM as of March 31, 2026. Also among the LPs of Growth I are FocusPoint Private Capital Group; investor and former partner at D.E. Shaw, Daniel Michalow; Matt Holt, founder of Thoreau Group and former managing director and president of private equity at New Mountain Capital; Athanor Capital; and Asher Genoot, chief executive officer of Hut 8 Corp.
“As a founder, I understand the challenges of building and scaling a business. The Anti Fund team offers a distinctive, tough‑love engagement model—accelerating early-stage momentum and challenging growth companies to reach beyond their perceived limits.” – Rudy Sahay, Managing Partner, Aquarian Holdings
Anti Fund concentrates its investments in artificial intelligence, robotics, frontier infrastructure, defense, energy, and select consumer technology. The goal is not attention for its own sake, but to drive faster, deeper understanding among the right audiences. The firm’s platform combines capital, product feedback, go-to-market support, media reach, customer access, and strategic relationships, complemented by ongoing founder engagement through curated summits, dinners, office visits, and working sessions.
Anti Fund is built around operators backing operators. Managing Partners Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul, alongside General Partner Logan Paul, have each built and scaled companies across industries. That operator’s mindset shapes how the firm picks founders, supports them after the investment, and earns trust inside competitive rounds. It also shapes how Anti Fund thinks about attention.
Jake and Logan Paul deeply understand how to leverage attention into ownership, real equity, and scaled businesses. Anti Fund applies that same discipline to portfolio companies: attention deployed with intent, to help the right customers, recruits, and counterparties understand how companies work.
“We are not trying to be just another fund. Capital is everywhere; attention, trust, and real founder help are not. At the earliest stages, founders need believers. As companies scale, the most successful founders look for partners who can both support and challenge them to go further. Anti Fund is built for both.” — Jake Paul, Managing Partner, Anti Fund
Key Facts
- Growth I size: $100 million (oversubscribed)
- Firm AUM: More than $180 million total
- Growth I positions: OpenAI, Anduril, Cognition, SpaceX, Saronic, Etched, Helion, Erebor, and Modal
- LPs and placement: Aquarian Holdings is serving as an anchor investor across Venture I and Growth I through its investment advisory platform; FocusPoint Private Capital Group served as exclusive placement agent
- Barbell strategy: Earliest-stage venture checks into technical founders; concentrated growth investments into companies converting technical insight into institutional-scale value
About Anti Fund
ANTI FUND® is a venture and growth investment platform for technical founders building category-defining companies. Led by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul, Managing Partners, with Logan Paul as General Partner, Anti Fund pursues a barbell strategy across venture and growth. The firm’s venture strategy backs technical founders at the earliest stages, before markets become obvious. Its growth strategy concentrates capital behind generational founders running breakout companies. Anti Fund invests across artificial intelligence, frontier technology, defense, robotics, energy, fintech, consumer, and pre-IPO companies.
Disclaimer: This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities. Any offer will be made only through definitive fund documents to qualified investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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