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.
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
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
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.
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.
Associated investment funds
People
Adam Bain
Co-Founder
Dick Costolo
Co-Founder
Further reading
Dick Costolo and Adam Bain announce $135 million venture fund
Megan Hernbroth
Web
August 6, 2019