01 Advisors

01 Advisors is a venture capital, consulting, and investment firm founded by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, former CEO and COO at Twitter. The sectors in which the company plans to invest are unknown but will most likely have a focus on financial technology. In September 2019, the firm invested in Tipalti in its Series D funding round.

Investment funds

01 Advisors 01 Fund I

On August 6, 2019 01 Advisors completed raising their first venture capital fund called the 01 Advisors 01 Fund I with $134 million in funding. 01 Advisors received their funding from 31 investors and they plan on expanding their fund with an additional $65 million in funding.

Timeline

August 6, 2019

Dick Costolo and Adam Bain announce $135 million venture fund

In the SEC regulatory filing released Tuesday August 6th, 01 Advisors disclosed it had secured $135 million for its first fund, but was still seeking up to $65 million in additional commitments.

Funded Companies

Company

Description

Industry

Website

Location

PlayVS

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

Tipalti automates the way companies pay suppliers, partners, publishers and employees with cloud-based solutions which addresses all phases of the payables workflow.

Software as a service (SaaS)

Payment

Crowdsourcing

tipalti.com

San Mateo, California

Density (company)

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

Internet of things (IoT)

Indoor positioning system

Positioning technology

density.io