Boston Seed Capital

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in transformational companies. We proudly invest in fearless entrepreneurs who are building foundational enterprise technologies and ubiquitous consumer brands. We do everything we can to help them realize their vision. We invest in all sectors, focusing primarily on tech-enabled companies. General Catalyst's support for founders transcends geography, sector, stage and investment lead and includes GC-powered platforms like Rough Draft Ventures, our student founder-focused program, Executives in Residence (XIR's) and the Velocity Network that connects enterprise companies with customers.

Venrock is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto that focuses on disruptive early-stage technology startups. Venrock partners with entrepreneurs who have grand ambitions and want to tackle big, hard problems that most think impossible. Venrock today consists of two separate programs: a traditional venture capital program, focused on early stage investing in healthcare and technology companies; and a later-stage healthcare program, which implements a venture capital-like long-term approach to investment opportunities in small capitalization public companies and late-stage private healthcare companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 as a venture arm of the Rockefeller family (the name Venrock being a compound of Venture and Rockefeller), who have a long history of venture-style investing dating back to the early 20th century.

FirstMark Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York that primarily invests at the seed or Series A stage. We are proud to back the ambitious founders of the most iconic companies in the world. We provide our investee companies access to the FirstMark platform and resources, which we believe is powered by the largest network in venture capital. FirstMark was founded in 2008 as a spinoff of Pequot Ventures, owned Pequot Capital Management.

Lux Capital is a venture fund that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. We partner with bold entrepreneurs who are challenging the status of quo - and we are willing to bet on them when no-one else can or will. Our team is comprised of neuroscientists, chemists, data scientists, computational biologists, economists, electrical engineers, machine-learning hackers and philosophers. Lux Capital was founded by Peter Hebert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe in the year 2000 and has its headquarters in New York with an additional Silicon Valley office.

BoxGroup is a New York based fund that invests at the very earliest stage of a startup's life. Whatever you call this round - friends & family, pre-seed, or seed - we are open to all of them. We support companies based on conviction in the team. We believe in founder market fit - the concept that certain teams are able to unlock specific markets. This is the first step to get to product market fit. 100% of our capital is from our own partners - we have no LPs, meaning we spend all our time with our companies. Although we are based in NYC, and have a bigger network here, we invest everywhere.

Playground Global is a venture capital fund and design/product studio that offers hardware-focused startups capital, resources and advice. Our design studio has both the tools and engineering expertise to speed up and improve design and product development. Playground's team has built foundational companies and products and is dedicated to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs do the same.