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The Tiny Fund With a Taste for Very Large Problems
Vast Ventures runs a compact New York operation with an unusually wide lens - from sleep hardware and medical access to digital money and lab-grown diamonds. The through-line is not a sector. It is a five-part manifesto about what technology should make better.
Third Prime Is Betting the Next Big Software Company Wears Work Boots
The New York and Nashville venture firm hunts for software in places where clipboards, compliance binders and fragmented workflows still run the day. Its portfolio shows a consistent wager: overlooked industries can become unusually durable technology markets.
The 98 Is Betting the Venture Gap Is a Market Mispricing
Women-led startups still receive a sliver of venture funding. The 98 treats that gap not as a charity brief, but as an investable inefficiency - then brings an operator network to the cap table.
The Small New York Fund Betting the Next Tech Boom Will Be Built in Concrete, Code and Salt Water
Danu Venture Group is assembling an unusually literal infrastructure portfolio: robots that wash buildings, boats that map oceans, software that audits cyber controls and machines designed to cut underground power corridors. Its wager is that the next technology cycle will be measured not only in model parameters, but in what gets built, secured and kept running.
The Check That Comes Before You Have a Company Bank Account
Farooq Abbasi built Preface Ventures to fund the engineers behind enterprise infrastructure - and got in so early on DX that a $2.8M-funded company became a $1B Atlassian deal.
The Fund Betting That the Poorest ZIP Codes Are the Best Returns
Andy Slavitt ran Medicare. Now he runs a $1.4 billion fund arguing that the patients Wall Street ignores are where the money is - and the math, so far, agrees.
Shine Capital Is Betting $600 Million on the Ideas Between Categories
The New York venture firm calls itself a team of "lateralists." Behind the language is a practical model: lead early, cross categories and stay close as founders turn technical possibility into a company people want.
The VC Who Sells Before He Wires
Jordan Wan spent ten years staffing the sales teams of a thousand startups. Now he invests in the founders before they have one - and helps them figure out how to sell.
The $250,000 Check That Wants to Go Everywhere
Everywhere Ventures turned a New York side project into a global pre-seed machine. Its edge is not a bigger check, but a loop: founders fund the fund, find the deals and help the next founders through the door.
Inspired Capital Wants the Napkin, Not the Hype Cycle
The New York firm has nearly $900 million, fewer than 10 new bets a year and a taste for founders still sketching the future. Its wager is that operating experience and patient conviction can beat venture capital by trend cycle.
The Fund That Bet Its Whole Pitch on the People, Not the Money
Four operators who never quit their day jobs built a venture fund where the check is the smallest thing in the room. The real asset is a rolodex of 100+ people who have already done the job.
The $83 Million Fund That Turned Healthcare Operators Into a Sales Force
HC9 Ventures built its pitch around a simple diagnosis: healthcare startups rarely fail for lack of software alone. They fail in the maze between a promising product and the institutions that must buy, trust, and deploy it.
The New York Fund That Bet on Robots Before the Robots Could Walk
Parkway keeps a short list of bets and a long memory of building companies. That combination led a New York firm of about 15 people to the front of the humanoid-robot and quantum-computing races.
The Fund That Bets on Boring: Predictive Hunts Data Moats in the Industries AI Forgot
While most AI money chases chatbots, Kevin Alvarez-Fung is writing seed checks into freight, factories and payments - and handing founders a rolodex of 500 corporations to prove it works.
DBA Wants to Be the Crypto Fund Inside the Machine
Most venture firms study a company before writing a check. DBA keeps studying after it invests - then publishes the homework for everyone to argue with.
RRE Ventures Has Been Playing the Long Game Since 1994 - and It Shows
The New York firm wrote early checks into Palantir, Datadog and Venmo, then stayed in the boardroom for the parts that actually get hard.
The VC That Bets on the Boring, Broken Industries Everyone Else Skips
Two operators who helped build Oscar Health left to fund the unglamorous machinery of insurance, supply chains and climate. Their pitch to founders is simple: the hardest markets are the biggest ones.
HBSE Ventures
HBSE Ventures is built around a useful wager: the best sports-tech investor may be the one that can turn teams, venues and fans into a living laboratory. Its portfolio shows how wide that laboratory has become.
LvlUp Ventures
LvlUp Ventures wants to be more than the name on a cap table. Its sprawling mix of small first checks, larger seed bets, accelerators and corporate partnerships is an attempt to turn a venture firm into operating infrastructure for founders.