Investments

Organizations

Elevation Capital, Early stage venture capital firm. Proud partners of visionary founders. Never too early to get in touch with us.

Above. Beyond. Together.

Elevation Capital

Liminal

Polygon

AVG provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.

Alumni Ventures Group helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography.

Alumni Ventures Group

NFX is a seed and series A venture firm that is a transforming how true innovators are funded. We believe that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. As Founders, we reinvented industries with this mindset. As investors, our approach is no different.

We do this by asking ourselves one question - ideally, how should the startup experience work for Founders, both NFX and the whole ecosystem? Our lens is always through the eyes of the Founder. Our approach is to first build an early stage experience for all Founders that is powered by more software. Second, to bring the founders we back exponential yet little-known techniques for network effects and growth. Third, to make visible the typically unseen methods of technology's most impactful companies.

Having built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits across multiple industries and geographies, we're entrepreneur first because we were entrepreneurs first. And we’re determined to guard the backs of the next generation of fearless founders.

At Samsung NEXT, we partner with innovators to build ideas into products, grow products into businesses and scale businesses that leverage and transform the Samsung ecosystem.

New technologies, new business models and new consumer habits create change, and with change come opportunities for entrants to become leaders. We invest in, build, partner with and acquire startups to create opportunities and ensure that Samsung is a part of these new value streams.

We all know software is eating the world; now machine learning is eating software. This reality is not only changing the ways computers are impacting human lives but also how the systems are built. This fundamental shift affects how our digital and physical worlds connect, how machines help us accomplish tasks and how we interact with the machines.

The growth of sensors and computing at the connected edge are creating a path towards a further decentralized computing network. The cloud as we know it will no longer sustain the velocity, variety, and volume of data originating at the edge. Architectures and workflows will be stressed to the point where a new model is required.

Samsung NEXT

Backing the next generation of entrepreneurs leveraging powerful network effects. With investments in over 50 companies and ten years of experience we help you create remarkable, long-term impact.

Our core beliefs guide our investments and we actively share our learnings and viewpoints to help today’s innovators make a difference.

What’s Blockchain’s core value proposition?  It enables trust without the need of a third-party intermediary and hence lowers the transaction costs for value exchanges between two parties:

Blockchain enables transactions that weren’t economically feasible before (e.g. selling a $20 stake in your project to some person somewhere in the world).

Blockchain makes existing transactions more efficient (e.g. by cutting out the middle man and his rake)
Looking at Blockchain through the prism of these capabilities makes it easier to identify which projects are crypto-native and which feel less so. For example…

Less strong use cases:

Private blockchains: Participants usually know each other so the transaction costs are already low.

Decentralized versions of existing marketplaces: Operators of highly successful marketplaces usually create tons more value for their customers relative to the rake they take (e.g. Uber, AirBnB).

Tokenization of offline assets: People still need a “link” to the real world, so there’s not much reduction in transaction costs – it provides only more efficient tracking of ownership.

Given all the excitement surrounding crypto today, it’s important to have the right lens when analyzing opportunities in order to filter out the noise and find those initiatives that have the highest likelihood to succeed.

Version One

The most powerful ideas, companies, and industries aren’t created overnight. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Slow Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. We are an affiliate of Bain Capital, a leading alternative investment firm with unparalleled access to Fortune 5000 companies.

Bain Capital Ventures

Notation is a community of people helping one another succeed. This includes the founders of Notation portfolio companies, our advisors, LP’s, and broader network.

We’re a “first-check” venture firm based in Brooklyn. We work with technical founding teams in the trenches on day 0:00.

Notation Capital

Our Mission: To be the first call for founders who want to make history and to partner with them as company builders in pursuit of that goal.

For five decades we have partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas… and make history.

Through twenty venture funds and four growth funds we’ve invested $10 billion in hundreds of companies including pioneers such as Amazon, Genentech, and Google. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues to help founders  and their bold ideas make history investing in companies like Desktop Metal, IronNet, Ring, Spotify, Slack, and UiPath.

Kleiner Perkins

Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc. We’ve invested in more than 300 companies that push the edge of what’s possible. In the fields of life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cyber security, and agriculture, our companies aim to improve lives and change industries. We’ve built a team of world-class engineers, designers, physicians, scientists, marketers, and investors who work together to provide these startups exceptional support on the road to success. We help our companies interface with Google, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent.

Elevation Capital

Above. Beyond. Together.