Marketplace funds

Building a marketplace? Start with the funds with deep expertise and interest in the space. Start here.
Building a marketplace? Start with the funds with deep expertise and interest in the space. Start here.
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Marketplace funds

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Called First Round for a reason. Your first money in is one thing. But so are your first hires, your first product and your first customers. They've helped Notion, Roblox, Uber, Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more. First round is building the world’s best product for founders who are just getting started.
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Julian Capital is a seed-stage fund that writes $500K checks and makes decisions quickly. They believe they're among the best growth and design experts. When they invest, they help overhaul your customer acquisition and brand.
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VC fund that focuses on understanding the mindset of the modern consumer.
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A community of over 250 diverse teams, across 30 states and 19 countries, sharing one common goal: redefining the Internet economy.
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Helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.
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Seed-stage investment firm committed to identifying, financing and developing early stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.
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Founded by GPs Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin, FJ labs focus on marketplaces and network effect businesses. They have amassed the world’s largest portfolio of marketplace startups and over 30 of their investments have become unicorns.
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Alumni Ventures Group provides diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.
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We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare
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SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.
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Led by investors including Micah Rosenbloom, David Frankel & Eric Paley, Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
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LA-based early-stage fund backing the next-rising technologies, products, and services that delight consumers and transform commerce
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Early-stage fund that wants to be with its founders throughout their journey.
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Over the past 28 years, RRE has become one of NYC’s oldest, largest, and most active venture capital firms. They have $2.5B AUM across 10 funds and 400+ portfolio companies. The firm recently raised their $250M Fund VIII.
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Seed-stage consumer-only venture capital firm that empower consumers to live on their terms.
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Invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture.
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Investing in the first institutional round of investment for software and hardware companies.
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Lightspeed's mission is to serve the world’s most extraordinary people who are building tomorrow’s companies today.
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Leading LGBTQIA+/Allies investment syndicate that has invested $110M+ in 200+ companies since 2016.
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Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
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First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk
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RiverPark Ventures is an active early-stage venture capital fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2006 by Andy Appelbaum and Morty Schaja.
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$500 million seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.
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Backs early-stage startups working in the digital redesign of the everyday economy, usually before meaningful traction.
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With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.
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Invests in next-generation brands that can connect to today's online savvy consumer.
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BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
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Invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
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Believes that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not.
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Early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
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Invests in companies that have a unique technical advantage beyond their product and have complete and unique ownership of their supply chain.
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Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.
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