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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.

Thomas Bailey

Alex Lines

Katherine Wu

Henri Stern

Nicholas Chirls

Notation Capital

Housecat

Tally

Talos

Bison Trails

RADAR

Evaluate.market

Open Source Coin

Open Zeppelin

Livepeer

Arwen

PROPS

Filecoin

NuCypher

Refactor Capital is a $50M early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders tackling problems in hard but not impossible areas such as applied biology, healthcare, crypto, food, wellness, transportation, aerospace, and more.

We believe that the most valuable opportunity set for startups in the next few decades will be the creative destruction of the status quo in industries that have so far resisted innovation. The way to get there might be different, but these areas are unexceptional in one important aspect: they will yield to progress like all other industries before them.

Conventional wisdom has been that high startup costs, byzantine regulatory structures, and onerous distribution channels made starting a company in these areas nearly impossible. We believe times are changing. Because of software and the accompanying tech innovations of the last decade, starting a company in these areas with seed financing is now a reality.

We invest primarily in seed-stage companies, helping define go-to-market strategies and navigate the various challenges founders encounter. We prefer using our Series Seed docs when leading a round but remain flexible.

Refactor Capital

Ce Yuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. We emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Our mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses. Our conviction, network of relationships and grass roots culture give us the opportunity to discover the next big idea early.

Ceyuan Ventures

Founders architecting the future. Compound is an NYC based venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology being built by outliers.

Compound VC

We invest the proprietary capital of Fidelity International Limited. For nearly fifty years we’ve been using our global scale, expertise and market reach to build bold and disruptive businesses.

Eight Roads partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build bold and meaningful businesses. We are active in Ventures, Principal Investments and Real Estate. 

We have teams in Asia and in Europe and work alongside associated funds around the world, providing substantial global scale, expertise and market reach.

Eight Roads Ventures

Bessemer Venture Partners was born from innovations in steel that literally forged modern building and manufacturing. Today, we work with people who want to create revolutions of their own. 

Our partners help founders lay enduring foundations to create companies that matter, starting with seed and Series A investments and sticking with our companies at every stage of their growth. 

We've been part of over 120 IPOs in the last 50 years, including Shopify, Yelp, LinkedIn, Skype, LifeLock, Twilio, SendGrid, DocuSign, Wix, and MindBody, and we're not stopping anytime soon.

Bessemer's 15 investing partners operate from offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Signal Ventures is an investment firm specializing on technology in emerging cryptocurrencies. We invest in early stage blockchain startups and decentralized protocols.

Signal Ventures

Agile. Fierce. Relentless. We are the honey badgers of venture.

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based early stage venture capital firm with over $500M in assets under management.

We're founders and builders who are here to help others like us build meaningful businesses. We focus on investing in high-potential software startups at seed stage and earlier, and are happy to be the first investors in early teams run by great engineers, designers and product founders. 

We've helped more founders build startups at the earliest possible stage than most anyone you'll meet, and that means we can help startups avoid the 1,000 landmines that can cause certain failure. It certainly won't guarantee success (as we all know there's no such thing in startups) but at the seed stage we've seen many cases where having the right investors will improve your chances significantly. 

In the end, we started this firm to help people like ourselves build companies that matter. A lot of great investors, advisors, founders, and friends have helped us along the way. We're just here to pay it forward.

Initialized Capital

We invest in the Ethereum powered decentralized future. ConsenSys Ventures empowers entrepreneurs creating the building blocks of Web 3.0.

ConsenSys Ventures is the external investment arm of ConsenSys, investing in pre-seed and seed stage Ethereum projects across the Web 3.0 stack.

Sector and geography agnostic, ConsenSys Ventures is building a circular economy whereby each portfolio company feeds into one another while supporting ConsenSys and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

ConsenSys Ventures

“There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.” —STEVE JOBS

Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, focusing on technology and cryptocurrency. It was established in 2017 by David O. Sacks and Bill Lee. Its first investment was leading a series A round for Bird, a scooter sharing company, in February of 2018.

The fund is called Craft, which represents our view that company building is a craft that we've learned over the course of founding four companies with successful exits. — David O. Sacks