Christopher Howard is the founding partner of Fuel Capital, an early-stage venture firm in San Francisco. See sector focus and contact routes.
Christopher Howard is the founding partner of Fuel Capital, an early-stage venture firm in San Francisco, where he previously built and led the seed program at Ignition Partners before investing in companies like PagerDuty and Heroku. His investment thesis targets seed-stage companies across B2B, B2C, and developer infrastructure, covering sectors such as enterprise software, fintech, SaaS, and consumer technology while generally avoiding biotech. Howard typically writes checks between $500,000 and $1 million at the pre-seed to Series A level and often leads rounds, though he has established a policy of avoiding board seats to remain a supportive partner. Notable portfolio companies include design platform Figma, logistics provider Flexport, digital freight network Convoy, and HR platform Lattice, all of which became industry unicorns. He was recognized on Forbes’ 2023 Midas Seed List for these early bets and is known for leveraging his prior marketing expertise to help founders with branding and go-to-market strategy. Howard also co-founded Ritual Capital and emphasizes backing “outsider founders” with transformative ideas, rejecting the notion that i
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