Great Oaks Venture Capital is a New York-based company that makes investments in seed-stage companies with the stated intention of financing and growing them. Typical investments made by the firm range from $50,000 to $500,000 and the investment amount can increase as well.
The company invests in industries such as consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. Most of the companies it invests in are located in New York City, New York and San Francisco, California, although it has also made investments internationally. Great Oaks Venture Capital has invested in over 300 companies, most of which are seed-stage or Series A investments. Companies in which the firm has invested include acorns, allbirds, besito, Built Robotics, GrubMarket, Hired, Ibotta, Notable Labs, and more.
The firm has conducted various funding rounds. The Great Oaks Venture Fund raised $40 million in 2012 and the Great Oaks Venture Fund I raised another $40 million in 2013. In 2019, the firm invested $3.5 million into Verb Energy.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Golden is a company started in San Francisco, USA. The company is building an encyclopedia and knowledge tool. The founder and CEO of Golden is Jude Gomila.
Augmedix is a technology-enabled service platform that simplifies how physicians work and deal with patients and medical documentation, with physician-wearable technology.
Fetch Rewards is a mobile shopping platform for earning points and rewards on purchases.
Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.
Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.
A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.
Storefront is a sharing-economy company that provides short-term retail spaces for rent to companies through an online platform, used specifically as pop-up retail locations.
Acorns is an Irvine, California-based micro-investing company allowing users to round up consumer purchases and invest the change.
Roomi is a New York-based company offering an online roommate-matching platform
Course Hero is a Redwood City, CA based company that provides access to study resources, test prep, tutors, etc.
Also known as the Daily Muse, The Muse is a company developing an online career platform that provides job listings and career advice to people. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator. It was founded in 2011 and is located in New York City, New York.
A software company making communication software for instantly sharing videos.
Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.
MemSQL is a company providing a distributed and in-memory database for enterprises.
An enterprise software company that has made a platform for customer relationship management (CRM). It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Learning management system.
An electronics and Internet company that has created mesh networking equipment for home Wi-Fi. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Suite of APIs that help brands build custom ad platforms.
Verge Genomics is a company focused on the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases with the use of machine learning and computational genomics.
Twice is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012.
Eat Club is a company founded by Kevin Yang.
EatStreet is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company founded in 2010.
Petal is a New York City-based company founded in 2016 by Jack Arenas, Andrew Endicott, Jason Gross and David Ehrich.
StudyBlue is a company that provides online flashcards and class notes.
People
Andrew Boszhardt Jr.
Employee
Henry McNamara
Employee
Jeff Fluhr
Advisor
Nat Turner
Advisor
Sami Inkinen
Advisor
Shane Walker
Advisor
Stuart O'Keeffe
Employee
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Great Oaks Venture Capital Presents an Evening with Scott Cooper
July 18, 2013
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Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 2
Jessica Karpinski
I'm a knowledge seeker with a thirst to understand how the world is connected. - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Jason D. Rowley
Former Data Acquisition Lead @ Golden (Recursion Inc.). Excited about open knowledge and pulling the future forward. - 5
Stuart OKeeffe
Principal at Great Oaks Venture Capital - 6
Will Suter
Student at the University of Notre Dame looking to expand my knowledge in topics that pique my interest. - 7
Erin Scherfner
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