Craft Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm making early-stage investments that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2017 by Bill Lee, Jeff Fluhr, Sky Dayton, and David Sacks. Notable investments made by Craft Ventures include: Bird, BitGo, Cloud Kitchens, Lumina, Neuralink, Reddit, SpaceX. Terminal, The Custom Movement, and Wayv.
On October 15, 2019 Craft Ventures announced raising $500 million for their second investment fund. The fund will be used to make seed, series A, and series B investments.
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Funded Companies
Bird is a company developing a vehicle sharing platform for dockless electric scooters.
A project management platform with customization tailored to each individual project and team.
Pipe is a financing platform for SaaS companies based in Los Angeles.
Harbor is a company developing and providing a decentralized compliance protocol for standardizing cryptocurrency (tokenized) securities.
Klue is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker.
BitGo is a financial services company in California that focuses on financial services, providing clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
Rare Bits is a zero-fee peer-to-peer marketplace to buy, sell, and discover crypto goods.
Vendr provides vendor management service to companies when buying and renewing software products.
OpenPhone is a company designing and developing an application that provides phone numbers for businesses and professionals.
Terminal builds engineering teams to accelerate companies.
Swarm Technologies is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded by Sara Spangelo.
San Francisco-based company which collects, organizes, and orchestrates data from application databases. The company manages data warehousing, ETL pipelines, and manages scheduling of data transforms.
Koyfin is a New York-based provider of analytical tools for investors for research and tracking of financial markets.
Returnly is a San Francisco-based company founded by Eduardo Vilar.
AgnetSync is a software-as-a-service for compliance management within the insurance industry.