Quintessence Ventures

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in New York. Lerer Hippeau was founded by Ken and Ben Lerrer, co-founders of the Huffington Post and Thrillist respectively, and the majority of our team consists of fellow startup founders and operators. We look to invest in entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Historically, we have invested primarily in early-stage companies based in New York (although we are not limited to NY), and almost exclusively headquartered in the United States.

Courtside Venture Capital is a Detroit-headquartered fund that invests in early-stage founders that are transforming the intersection of sports, technology and media. Our team and founders are highly specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors, and we look to utilize our industry networks and deep domain knowledge to bring unparalleled value to our companies. Courtside VC builds long-term partnerships with management and provides ongoing strategic support across all aspects of operations.

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a New York and San Francisco based Seed and Series A venture fund. We primarily focus on Consumer, Enterprise and Healthcare startups headquartered in NY or SF, and typically invest $50K to $500K per deal. We are one of the most active seed investors in the New York region and have an extensive network throughout the United States comprised of leading tech founders, peer venture investors and specific industry specialists. Our goal is to help founders grow their businesses rapidly and become profitable and self-sustaining, sell their business or attract growth financing. We work most closely with founders ahead of their Series A financings when they are working to find product market fit and develop their product or service. We align ourselves with founders in order to help negotiate and secure the right growth investors, buyers and partners for the lifetime of the business.

We believe that technology is a key enabler of the long-term economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable future. We provide entrepreneurs with the capital and hands-on support they need to transform agrifood supply chains. We support and invest in early-stage teams. We look for bold, tenacious founders committed to solving big problems with technologically-enabled, transformational insights. We invest all along the agrifood supply chain, across areas such as farm inputs, soil, on-farm, supply chain, alternative systems, and new value chains.

Andreessen Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to building the next major franchises in technology. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm provides entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights in innovation, executive and technical talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory affairs, business development, and marketing and brand-building.

Union Square Ventures is a small collegial partnership based in New York that manages over $1B across seven technology-focused venture funds. Union Square Ventures is one of the most successful venture funds in the world and has been an early-stage investor in some of America's most successful startups such as Zynga, Indeed, Tumblr, Twitter, Lending Club, Etsy, Twilio and MongoDB. USV was founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham.