Robinhood

Investing for Everyone
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell U.S. stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

Why we invested
Vlad, Baiju, and Nate led a distinctive team of designers, mathematicians, and engineers who impressed us from the outset with their drive, experience, and vision to transform the financial markets. They felt a sense of responsibility to democratize access to public markets for all. 

Robinhood’s mission is to democratize finance for all. We believe that everyone should have access to the financial markets, so we’ve built Robinhood from the ground up to make investing friendly, approachable, and understandable for newcomers and experts alike.”

Vlad Tenev
Robinhood Co-Founder and CEO

Carta

Creating more owners
Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow.

Why we invested
As a serial entrepreneur, Henry had a firsthand experience with broken cap tables. His extensive market foresight and global perspective distinguished him from his peers. We were immediately persuaded by his insights and decided to become his first outside investors.

Carta’s mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.”

Henry Ward
Carta Co-Founder and CEO

Talos

Institutional-grade digital asset platform
Buy-side or sell-side, systematic hedge fund or neobank, Talos supports institutions from price discovery to execution and settlement. 

Why we invested
Anton and Ethan, who were lead engineers at some of the largest financial institutions, recognized the need to bridge the gap between institutional players and the crypto landscape. With their deep knowledge of the market, they possessed a unique advantage and were eager to prove themselves – powerful combination that we had no reservations about supporting.

Our vision is to be the bridge connecting institutions to the digital assets market. To deliver the most pioneering and trusted end-to-end trading lifecycle platform there is.”

Anton Katz
Talos Co-Founder and CEO

Alpaca

Zero-commission stock trading API
All-Inclusive suite of APIs for investing, brokerage, custody and post-trade processing. Trade with algorithms, connect with apps, and build services with easy to use modern APIs. 

Why we invested
Yoshi and Hitoshi conceived an idea to create a stock trading API that caters to developers. Their vision was to fill the gap in the market where most of the world has limited to zero access to US equities. The founders' global vision and mission-driven mindset distinguished them from the rest, making it an easy decision for us to support their venture.

Our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet.”

Yoshi Yokokawa
Alpaca Co-Founder and CEO

Pie Insurance

Workers' comp insurance made for small businesses
Pie Insurance is leveraging technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance, with the goal of making it affordable and as easy as pie.

Why we invested
With a wealth of experience in the insurance industry, John and Dax recognized a significant opportunity with small and medium-sized businesses. Their conviction and technology-driven approach made believers of us all.

Pie provides workers’ comp insurance directly to small businesses. We also partner with local, regional, and national insurance agencies to provide coverage to their clients. This way, everybody wins. Small businesses across the nation can now save up to 30% on workers’ comp.”

John Swigart
Pie Insurance Co-Founder and CEO

Handle

Powering finance teams in construction
Handle powers the largest credit and finance teams in construction. Handle is the new modern technology approach to better manage payments, credit compliance and lien management for construction.

Why we invested
Patrick, Blake, and Chris founded Handle to address the financial hurdles that contractors frequently encounter. Their construction technology startup offers software tools that automate the payment-related routine tasks. Their exceptional teamwork, resilience, and industry expertise make them the perfect team to take on this challenge.

Handle’s mission is simplifying construction payments.”

Patrick Hogan
Handle Co-Founder and CEO

Canopy Connect

Insurance verification and compliance
Canopy Connect offers insurance verification and monitoring to mortgage lenders, agencies and transportation companies. Verify current premiums, limits, coverages, deductibles, and declaration pages from all personal and commercial P&C lines in seconds.

Why we invested
The insurance industry has yet to adopt regulations around consumer data rights, unlike banking and healthcare. Tolga, an entrepreneur and engineer, recognized the need for consumers to have control over their data for a better insurance experience. This, along with his relentless drive, inspired us to support Tolga and his vision.

Our mission is to enable consumers to exercise their right to choose how others use their information.”

Tolga Tezel
Canopy Connect Founder and CEO

Forward

Embedded payments for software people
At Forward, our mission is to empower SaaS companies to seamlessly integrate and monetize payments. We’re dedicated to giving back to the software community by providing a payments solution that we wish had been available to us when we were running our own vertical SaaS companies.

Why we invested
As a seasoned entrepreneur and developer in the financial sector, Brandon had firsthand experience with the limitations of traditional payment systems. He found the architecture to be outdated and in dire need of modernization. With a team of experts by his side, he embarked on a mission to create a comprehensive solution. We were inspired by his vision and chose to partner with him to bring this ambitious project to life.

If helping businesses thrive is wrong, we don’t want to be right.”

Brandon Lloyd
Forward Founder and CEO

Branch Insurance

The better way to get covered
Home and auto insurance that’s simple to buy and built for savings. Unlike other insurance companies, Branch is actually built from the ground up to help members save.

Why we invested
The prospect of developing a new market offering utilizing modern technology to serve an underserved demographic held great promise. Steve and Joe possessed a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of insurance, inspiring our confidence in their vision, and we eagerly joined the effort.

We started Branch to restore insurance to its original intent: a force for communal good. By putting data and technology to work and harnessing the power of community, Branch makes insurance better and more affordable for all. We like to call it, getting back to getting each other’s back.”

Steve Lekas
Branch Financial Co-Founder and CEO

Quotabook

Make Equity Simple
Quotabook helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, stock options, investments and more.

Why we invested
Andy Choi, Dan Hong, and Pilseon Jun observed that many startups in Korea and other Asian countries were using Excel to manage their cap tables, stock options, and stakeholder information. As former venture capitalists, they recognized this as a pressing issue and set out to develop software infrastructure to address it.

Quotabook’s mission is to create an ecosystem for private companies by making equity simple.”

Andy Choi
Quotabook Co-Founder and CEO