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.

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.

Sequoia Capital is a venture investment manager that backs companies from inception to IPO and operates venture and dedicated seed funds.

Andreessen Horowitz is an investment manager investing in technology companies from seed through growth stage across AI, bio and healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure and American dynamism.

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.

Foundry Group is a Colorado-based venture firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies headquartered in the US and Canada. Foundry Group also invests in select, newly-formed venture capital fund managers. Foundry Group formed in 2007 and originally focused on Seed and Series A investments. It raised a growth-stage fund in 2014 (Foundry Group Next), and a fund dedicated to investing in other venture funds (Foundry Group Next) in 2016. Regardless of the size of our initial investment, the size and structure of our funds allow us to continue to fund portfolio companies through their entire financing lifecycles. In addition, our venture capital fund investments give us insight and access to a large number of venture-backed companies at varying stages while extending the reach of our overall network. In addition to providing capital, we leverage our experience in starting and growing companies, our expertise in the technology industry, and our network of relationships to help outstanding entrepreneurs and venture capital fund managers turn great ideas into great companies.