Thrive Capital is a venture capital firm in New York that focuses on internet and software investments. Founded 2009 in New York, United States by Joshua Kushner, it invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, seed, series B, series C, and series A rounds. Its portfolio companies include Addepar, YOLO, Justworks, Flatiron School, and dot.LA. As of April 2020, Thrive Capital has made 204 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 28, 2020, when YOLO raised $8M. Thrive Capital has had 38 exits, the most notable of which include GitHub, Twitch, and Instagram. The company has raised six funds, their latest being Thrive Capital Partners VI. This fund was announced on October 23, 2018 and raised a total of $1B.
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Robinhood is a Palo Alto, California-based financial technology company founded in 2013. They offer free stock and equity trading and commission-free crypto-trading.
Instagram is a Menlo Park based photo-sharing social media platform.
Carta (formerly eShares) is a San Francisco based cap table management platform that offers 409A valuations, products for investors and public companies.
Nubank is a financial technology company based in Brazil issuing, administrating, processing and transfering payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investments.
Stripe is a financial technology company providing software that allows businesses and individuals to make and receive online payments.
OpenDoor is a San Francisco-based real estate technology company offering virtual and streamlined real estate buying and selling founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, JD Ross and Ian Wong.
Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
An insurance technology company utilizing technology, design and data to humanize health care. and offer health insurance.
An insurance technology company using artificial intelligence and behavioural economics to offer home and renters insurance.
Segment is a company providing a data infrastructure for businesses.
A company developing a cloud-based collaboration platform for professional teams to build software specific to their line of work or particular project. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Company providing consultation for security standards and regulatory compliance for technology startups
Affirm is a financial technology services company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
LeafLink is a New York City and Los Angeles-based company that provides a marketplace for wholesale cannabis.
Monzo is a software development company developing mobile banking applications.
Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.
Compass is a real estate technology company providing real estate listing application for buying, selling and renting properties.
An artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications.
42floors is a company providing a platform for searching office space. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.
A software company helping teams collaboratively build presentations and create content.
A technology company offering a platform for payroll, benefits, human resources, and compliance.
Twitch provides a live streaming video platform and community for gamers. Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014.
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Jared Weinstein
General Partner
Joshua Kushner
Founder and Managing Partner
Nabil Mallick
Partner
Ryan Shmeizer
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