Focus: We invest in the things that make life worth living. This is 3 areas of focus: Wellness, Sustainability, Learning/Work/Play.
Pitch Advice: The biggest thing I look for in an investment is signs of customer love and product engagement, so emphasize those areas when pitching me.
Focus: I'm 100% focused on B2B software - developer tools and infrastructure, vertical SaaS, productivity and operations, B2B FinTech.
Pitch Advice: Very happy to receive well-researched and interestingly-written cold emails! Please do the research though in terms of what I invest in, stage, etc. Lots of info on our website.
Check Size: Checks usually range between $500K-2M (average of $1-1.5M at Seed) as we work with founders and leverage our network to build a robust and strategic syndicate.
Focus: Love meeting with passionate entrepreneurs from any sector! We have a particular affinity for B2B SaaS, Infrastructure/Enterprise Software, Marketplaces, Fintech, MedTech, eCommerce, and Future of Work ventures, and are not particularly active in hardware nor consumer social investing.
Pitch Advice: Come ready to tell us the full story of you, about how your technology works at the deepest levels, and about how you plan to ride the ups and downs of the startup process on the path to product-market fit, and know that we look at each investment as a long-term, holistic partnership.
Focus: We're industry-agnostic and are always getting pulled into new, interesting areas by founders. We're also biased towards mission-driven founders.
Pitch Advice: Just get in touch! Our emails are all listed on our homepage, and we read and reply to every cold pitch we receive.
Focus: We're generalists, so we invest in everything: consumer tech, e-commerce, enterprise, emerging tech / robotics, and media. Thematically, we really like Digital Health, Gen Z, eComm & eComm enablement, Future of Work, Sustainability among others!
Pitch Advice: We love to focus on founder-market fit, so hearing more about your story & unique insight on the market based on your experience is always great :)
Focus: Sector Agnostic - invest across SaaS, Healthcare, Marketplaces, Fintech, Tech-enabled Consumer etc.
Pitch Advice: We're excited to hear about your unique, contrarian insight around a problem and the work you've done to understand an opportunity in the market.
Pitch Advice: We like to have a good answer to two questions (1) what is your fundamental insight, why is it not obvious, and why is now the time? (2) why is your team the team that will win?
Focus: Network effects as a whole. For me, specifically focused on companies and networks building something that is uniquely enabled by crypto or uniquely leverages crypto.
Pitch Advice: Create a BriefLink! It is totally private to the founders until they send a link to me or another person... like DocSend or DropBox would be but designed for startups. That will help me and other investors take a look at the metadata and decide whether it makes sense to take their time with a meeting. Like moving straight into a second meeting rather than a generic intro.
Focus: Consumer + Consumerization of Enterprise. Thesis areas we're spending time on right now: eCommerce infrastructure, consumer subscriptions, mental health, climate tech / sustainability. What won't be invested in? Probably not the best fit for something in infrastructure software, security software, or deep tech.
Pitch Advice: We like to see some early signs of product-market fit - e.g. a handful of customers who are raving about the product, a distribution channel that seems very promising - and will rarely invest pre-launch.
Focus: We typically don't invest in pharma, healthcare, medical devices; areas we do like: real estate tech, FinTech, e-commerce, marketplaces, robotics and computer vision, DeFi, interactive entertainment.
Pitch Advice: Warm intros always best, but fine if a cold intro - research who we are, blogposts we've written, LinkedIn posts, etc. to determine whether something you're pitching is a fit for areas we've been publicly exploring; furthermore, send a punchy deck and bullet pointed email with major insights into team pedigree, product / industry, any relevant traction numbers from a beta, etc., are included.
Focus: We focus on the following verticals: Enterprise Software, Fin Tech, Marketplaces and Healthcare IT. Within those spaces, we are excited about enterprise tech that has strong product-led adoption, insurance and payments within fin tech and delivery models and businesses that support the movement towards fee for value (instead of service) for Healthcare IT. We won't invest in commerce brands and social companies. Ad-tech is unlikely too.
