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Eight Sleep
Believed early · Selected track record
01 / 05

The operator fund for the phase everyone else prices after the fact.

Believe early. Build alongside.

We back operator-led founders from friends-and-family rounds through seed, including businesses that are pre-launch or pre-revenue. Consumer health, better-for-you food and beverage, and performance.

02 Thesis

Alongside
from the start.

We invest from friends-and-family rounds through seed, including in pre-launch and pre-revenue businesses. Then we work alongside founders on the product, the first customers, and the path from an idea to a business.

F&F → SeedPre-launchPre-revenue

We don't wait for proof.We're the ones building it.

03Sectors

Four categories. One belief.

01
Consumer Health.Outcomes we measure.
Brands built on outcomes founders can prove. Supplements, recovery, hormones, sleep, the stack a high-performer actually keeps.
02
BFY Food.Real ingredients.
Real-ingredient brands solving a specific physiological problem. Functional first. Lifestyle as a result, not a positioning.
03
Performance.What compounds.
Gear, brands, and platforms that earn shelf space in an operator's life. What compounds daily is what we back.
04
Opportunistic.Great upside, adjacent thesis.
Category-defining opportunities that sit adjacent to our core focus. If the upside is real and the founder is an operator, we lean in.
04Playbook

The playbook.

Six playsClick any play to expand.
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05 Track record

We believed early.

The companies.
The stage we came in.

Eight SleepSleep & recoverySeed
Rythm HealthHormone healthPre-seed
SpaceXSpace & AI infrastructureSeries H
ICON Technology3D construction · NASASeed
It's That SimpleBFY food and beveragePre-seed
PalmettoSolar energySeries B
Axo Longevity
Biomarker longevityPre-seed
Avelo RunningPerformance footwearPre-seed
Bridge HydrationFunctional beveragePre-seed

A blend of direct positions held personally and limited-partner exposure via Falkon Ventures (2017 vintage) and 51 Ventures (2025+). This is prior investment experience, not Fund I's portfolio.

06Portfolio

Fund I. Disclosed at close.

Private
SectorPerformance
Private
SectorBFY Food
Private
SectorRecovery
Private
SectorSleep
Private
SectorWellness

We name portfolio companies at close. Until then, we do the work.

07 People

Alongside good company.

Alongside our fund. Alongside the brands we back.

Operator-led growth

Roger
Bernardino

Involved with breakout consumer brands early: Eight Sleep, Rythm Health, It's That Simple, and SpaceX. Over a decade of operator-led B2B relationships across the Department of Defense, Nike, US Air Force, Whole Foods, Madison Square Garden, SoFi Stadium, Dallas Cowboys, Loews Hotels, UEFA, and Audible. Built Alongside Ventures from operator conviction, not institutional theory.

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08Pitch us

Build alongside.

We invest from friends-and-family rounds through seed, including in pre-launch and pre-revenue companies. Consumer health, better-for-you food and beverage, performance, or an adjacent opportunity. Tell us what you are building. Two minutes. We read the whole thing.
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Loud about belief. Exact about numbers.
Never loud about itself.

This website is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Nothing on this site is investment advice or an offering of any fund. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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