Best VCs for Marketplace

General Partner

Y Combinator

Brad helps very early founders move from idea to a launched product users want, then build the fundraising, hiring and customer-development habits needed to survive. His Perfect Audience background an

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Andy invests at the edge of large markets under transformative pressure. His long-running thesis work centers on engaged networks, differentiated user experience, and defensibility created by network

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled crede

Co-Founder and Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incen

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Rebecca invests at the edge of large markets, with a consumer and product lens sharpened by USV's network-effects thesis. Her current view links abundant AI intelligence, cheaper hardware, sensors, an

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove e

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

J Zac contributes an operator and product perspective to Craft's SaaS and marketplace investing. His public profile centers on building people-management software at Lattice, board work at Vanta, and

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-

Partner

Craft Ventures

Lainy backs software and marketplaces that modernize complex vertical workflows. Her cases favor founder-market fit, a painful operational wedge, simple products built on technically difficult systems

Co-founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bill's record reflects a founder-led approach to category creation across internet platforms, mobile virtual goods, institutional crypto and frontier technology. His operating history at Remarq, Socia

Co-Founder & Partner

First Round Capital

The seed-stage specialist. Invests earliest and deepest at seed — First Round was one of the firms that pioneered institutional seed investing. Built First Round into a platform that punches well abov

Venture Partner

Benchmark

Sarah's investing worldview is built on a few interlocking beliefs: (1) The best consumer companies create compounding engagement loops where users do MORE over time, not less. She formalized this int

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Chris is now a portfolio-support and board partner rather than an active new-investment partner. His historical investing centered on advertising and marketing technology, social and mobile products,

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His rec

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Steven helps companies make consequential decisions quickly despite incomplete information, test the result in the real world, and learn with a beginner's mindset. His operating history spans founding

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentati

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Rob has historically backed founders pushing beyond existing market boundaries, including Uber, Square, Mint, eero, Gnip, and Planet Labs. His founder lens prizes CEOs who can move fluidly between a c

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

BoxGroup

One of the most active and respected seed investors in NYC. Co-founded TechStars NYC (now Techstars NYC), deeply embedded in the New York startup ecosystem since its earliest days. Known for being hig

Founder and Managing Partner

Trust Fund

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infras

Partner

BoxGroup

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens int

VENTURE PARTNER

Blockchain Capital

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end le

Investor

BoxGroup

Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-dev

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value

Founding General Partner

Norrsken VC

David backs scalable technology businesses that solve major problems and can become enduring category leaders. His long operating, angel and board history adds a company-scaling lens, while his curren

Investment Manager

Norrsken VC

Anna combines Norrsken's impact-return mandate with eight years of strategy, operations and international market expansion at Spotify. Her likely value is testing whether an early impact company can t

Partner

AppWorks

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfo

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

DST Global

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or

Investor

Electric Capital

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet ar

Chief of Staff

Maveron

Nora Woodruff is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Venture Partner

Maveron

Anarghya Vardhana invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and

Venture Partner

Maveron

Kyle Widrick invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Christa Quarles is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses th

Partner

BoxGroup

Adina is an early-stage generalist with a publicly documented emphasis on B2B software, consumer internet, and fintech. Her operating background in e-commerce and recent visible interest in AI deploym

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Ben Wolin is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm

Advisor

Defy Partners

Ben Cary is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's

Co-Founder and General Partner

Maveron

Dan Levitan invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay

Platform Operations Manager

NextView Ventures

Vera Benkoil is listed in a Platform Operations Manager capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role dist

Director of Finance

NextView Ventures

Amanda Tommasino is listed in a Director of Finance capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinct

Venture Partner

NextView Ventures

Stephanie Palmeri invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tacklin

Principal

BAM Ventures

Adam Lebovitz invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce

Partner

BoxGroup

Adam invests as a broad early-stage generalist within BoxGroup's people-first model: meet founders before a company is fully formed, judge founder-market fit and leadership potential, and back categor

Advisor

Defy Partners

Vik Singh is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's

Advisor

Defy Partners

Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an

Associate

Defy Partners

Adam Park invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment

Partner

Defy Partners

Amy Yin invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment j

Co-Founder, Partner & CFO

Defy Partners

Purvi Shah is listed in a Co-Founder, Partner & CFO capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction

Director of Platform

NextView Ventures

Rachel Hodes is listed in a Director of Platform capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction

Co-Founder and Partner

NextView Ventures

David Beisel invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mas

Co-Founder & Chief of Staff

Defy Partners

Phebe Chen Tran is listed in a Co-Founder & Chief of Staff capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role disti

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Brian Lee is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm

Chief Investment Officer, General Partner

Maveron

Jason Stoffer invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and sta

General Partner

Defy Partners

Medha Agarwal invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining invest

Managing Director

BAM Ventures

Shamin Walsh invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce

Co-Founder and Partner

Footwork

Nikhil Basu Trivedi invests or supports investments through Footwork's published strategy: Lead or co-lead Seed and Series A rounds for companies showing early product-market fit in consumer technolog

COO, CFO, Partner

Maveron

Nathan Apsel is listed in a COO, CFO, Partner capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Steve Miller is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the f

Head of Network and Operations

Matchstick Ventures

Shannon Shroyer is listed in a Head of Network and Operations capacity at Matchstick Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that r

Principal

Kaszek

Thaisa Miyazaki invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Director of Finance

Maveron

Clayton Hess is listed in a Director of Finance capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

General Partner

Matchstick Ventures

Nicole Glaros invests or supports investments through Matchstick Ventures's published strategy: Invest at pre-seed and seed in software companies located between the U.S. coasts, making a focused numb

Principal

Kaszek

Mariano Bomaggio invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds

Partner

Kaszek

Andy Young invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Partner

Kaszek

Angel Uribe invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

General Partner

Matchstick Ventures

Ryan Broshar invests or supports investments through Matchstick Ventures's published strategy: Invest at pre-seed and seed in software companies located between the U.S. coasts, making a focused numbe

Advisor

Defy Partners

Bangaly Kaba is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the fir

Partner

Kaszek

Nicolas Berman invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Venture Partner

Fika Ventures

Aaron Szekel invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across t

Chief Financial Officer

Fika Ventures

Natalie Paz is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Vice President of Marketing

Fika Ventures

Ju-Djuin Csontos is listed in a Vice President of Marketing capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Senior Associate

Fika Ventures

Julia Puzzo invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across th

Senior Associate

Fika Ventures

Olivia Harris invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across

Partner

Fika Ventures

Gabriella Brignardello invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companie

Operating Partner

Fika Ventures

Matt Hersh is listed in a Operating Partner capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

General Partner

Fika Ventures

Arteen Arabshahi invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies acro

Partner

Kaszek

Santiago Fossatti invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth round

General Partner

Fika Ventures

John Chen invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the

General Partner

Fika Ventures

TX Zhuo invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.

Investor

BoxGroup

Holley invests at formation stage within BoxGroup's generalist, people-first mandate. Her recent public activity and graduate technical coursework show particular engagement with AI agents, personaliz

Associate

Kaszek

Daniel Franco invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Executive Assistant

Maveron

Nicole Tighe is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Analyst

Kaszek

Gabriel Silvestre invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth round

Controller

Kaszek

Victoria Arnabal is listed in a Controller capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizationa

COO

Kaszek

Marcelo Diaz invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Executive Assistant

Maveron

Angie Gabel is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Venture Partner

BAM Ventures

Maurice Maschmeyer invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and com

Operations Manager

Maveron

Raeann Yurman is listed in a Operations Manager capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Founder & Partner

Defy Partners

Neil Sequeira invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining invest

Partner

BoxGroup

Claire backs formation-stage technology companies as a BoxGroup generalist, with visible strength across enterprise and developer software, AI-native products, consumer experiences, and marketplaces.

Amplified Defy Team Member

Defy Partners

Mike Einziger is listed in a Amplified Defy Team Member capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinct

Amplified Defy Team Member

Defy Partners

Lauren Holehan is listed in a Amplified Defy Team Member capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinc

Co-Founder & Managing Director

BAM Ventures

Brian Lee invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce bus

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Bryan Goldberg is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the

Defy Sage

Defy Partners

Sujal Patel is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the fi

Advisor

Defy Partners

Brian Krausz is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the fir

Analyst

Defy Partners

Noah Lin invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment

Advisor

Defy Partners

Brian Shin is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm'

Managing Partner

Access Venture Partners

Kirk Holland invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable ad