Ride Home Fund

Ride Home Fund is an early-stage investment firm that uses the audience and network of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast to find startups and provide investment opportunities. Its rolling fund draws both potential investments and investors from the podcast community. The firm also operates the Ride Home AI Fund, which focuses on companies working on the first- and second-order effects of generative AI and invests from pre-seed through Series A.

The fund is led by Brian McCullough and Chris Messina. Its stated approach emphasizes early checks, product-led initiatives, and using its founder and developer networks to source opportunities. The AI Fund page reports that the Techmeme Ride Home podcast has 50,000–70,000 daily listeners, including founders, operators, engineers, and technology executives. The fund's portfolio includes companies working in areas such as AI infrastructure, healthcare, legal technology, identity security, and design tools. The website identifies the AI Fund as fully deployed and presents the rolling fund as an investment opportunity for the podcast community.