Investments

Organizations

Red Beard Ventures, Democratizing VC, Investors in SuperRare, Dapper Labs. Led by Drew Austin, Aaron Kern.

Our team has been working in and around the startup ecosystem for 15+ years. Building, investing and advising startups has helped us to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company. We develop empathy to the founder journey that only a startup founders can have.

Drew Austin

Red Beard Ventures

Supermojo

Atmos Labs

MARA

LimeWire

CR3 Labs

Crypto Art House

MetaMundo

GigLabs

Flowty

Layer3

CryptoSlam!

Calaxy

Ceramic

The Sandbox

Stardust

Roll

Unstoppable Domains

POAP

Upstream

Dapper Labs

SuperRare

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Virtual Human

Mayfield is a global venture capital firm with over $2.7 billion under management and a 49 year history of championing people.

Mayfield

DCM is a venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. Since 1996, we have invested in more than 325 technology companies across the U.S. and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM empowers our entrepreneurs with hands-on operational guidance and a global network of business and financial resources.

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

Greylock Partners, a Leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firm. Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.

Greylock Partners

Greycroft is a leading venture capital firm focused on investments in the Internet and mobile markets. With offices in the two media capitals of the world - New York and Los Angeles – Greycroft is uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. Greycroft leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses. Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion, and has made over 200 investments since inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Boxed, Buddy Media, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, and WideOrbit.

Greycroft

“We are very satisfied clients of Cornerstone for over 2 years. They are a unique blend of service, value, and convenience that is hard to beat in the industry, coupled with special people who deliver nothing less than a superior client experience.” — Niraj Mehta, Kilowatt Capital

Kilowatt Capital

From idea to IPO and beyond, Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies.

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. Its spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

The company was founded by Don Valentine in November 1972 and is based on Menlo Park, California.

Sequoia Capital

We believe we can only build the next generation of Pillar companies if we form a trusted partnership with founders of the companies we back. From our investment terms to the capabilities and support we provide, our mission is to align every step we take, every decision we make with the interests of entrepreneurs, right from the start.

As early-stage investors, many of our companies are ideas beginning to take flight; so we are investing in the people, the founders. We look for unstoppable founders who know how to blow through walls. Founders who rally people around their vision for the future and have the ability to create a swell of momentum around a market-transforming idea.

We co-founded Pillar with a group of 17 world-class executives, who have built some of the most substantial companies in Boston with a combined total of more than $30B in enterprise value. All are investors in our fund, and are active as hands-on advisors, mentors and board members to our entrepreneurs. An investment from Pillar is an investment from them.

Our partners are serial entrepreneurs with decades of operating experience in high-growth start-ups. We know what it’s like to build a team, a product, a community of customers. We know what it’s like to pour your time, energy and resources into scaling your company. That’s why we’re so committed to helping you align with the people and capabilities you need to win.

pillar

We invest in insights that empower individuals and better society. Core focus on portable identity, payments and marketplaces.

Hard Yaka makes early round investments in exchange space startups. Candidates are either verticals in particular categories of exchange markets or horizontals providing services (i.e. messaging or payments) across exchange sectors.

Red Beard Ventures

Led by Drew Austin, Aaron Kern.