Ride Home Fund

Ride Home Fund is the venture vehicle associated with Brian McCullough’s Techmeme Ride Home and Founders Journey podcasts, deploying small early-stage checks into founders the network has surfaced through podcast relationships and the broader Internet History community. The fund is generalist with a tilt toward consumer technology, software infrastructure, and frontier areas including AI, with healthcare appearing only opportunistically rather than as a defined thesis. Check sizes at podcast-linked rolling funds of this type typically run between twenty-five thousand and one hundred fifty thousand dollars, sometimes higher when the fund leads or co-leads, almost always alongside other investors rather than as a primary lead. Healthcare AI founders should set expectations accordingly. This is not a domain-expert healthcare investor and will not contribute regulatory, clinical, or reimbursement guidance. The value is brand reach, podcast exposure, and connectivity to a network of operators and angels. Founders building consumer-facing or developer-tooling AI products with healthcare angles, or those who can credibly tell a story to a tech-enthusiast audience, are the right fit. Therapeutics, devices, and provider-side enterprise sales companies should look elsewhere. The best entry path is engagement through the podcasts and direct outreach to McCullough or the fund team via LinkedIn or email, leading with a sharp narrative and the tech-press relevance of your story. A warm referral from an existing portfolio founder will materially improve the odds of a meeting.