Vayner/RSE is a venture capital and private equity firm making seed-stage investments and institutional financing agreements that is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2014 by AJ Vaynerchuk, Gary Veynerchuk, and Matt Higgins. Notable investments made by Vayner/RSE include: Anyperk, Applauze, Banza, Bindo, Binti, Birchbox, Bkstg, BRaVe Media Ventures, Coinbase, Curalate, CustomVine, Drizly, DRL, Envoy, Epic, Exposure, and Fatherly, Hightower, Pillow, Snapchat, and Willing.
On February 12, 2014 Vayner/RSE announced raising $25 million for their Seed Fund.
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