Bowery Capital is an early-stage venture capital investor focused exclusively on founders looking to modernize business through technology. As more and more internet natives drive purchasing decisions, Bowery Capital believes that roughly $468B will change hands over the next 10 years as old products are replaced with new. In addition, the firm believes that the key ingredient to early success is revenue and customer growth, and as such provides various products and services through their Acceleration Team that portfolio companies can leverage to develop a strong early base. This combination of a focused thesis and support system are the cornerstones of Bowery Capital's investment approach. For more information visit: www.bowerycap.com or find us on Twitter at: @BoweryCapital.

Bowery Capital

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It offers a program where startups receive guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. The organization helps founders in their business models and develop their products. Y Combinator serves industries such as technology, healthcare, and finance.

Y Combinator

S2 Capital is a micro venture capital fund that specializes in seed-stage investments. It was founded in 2014 by Samvit Ramadurgam and Sohail Prasad. S2 Capital is based in San Francisco, California.

S2 Capital

MetaProp is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology (“PropTech”) industry. Founded in 2015, MetaProp’s investment team has invested in 175+ technology companies across the real estate value chain. The firm manages multiple funds for both financial and strategic real estate investors that represent a pilot- and test-ready sandbox of 20+ billion square feet across every real estate asset type and global market. The firm’s investment activities are complemented by pioneering community leadership including the PropTech Place innovation hub, MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University programs, global events including NYC Real Estate Tech Week, and publications Global PropTech Confidence Index and PropTech 101.

MetaProp

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow. We want to become the closest partner of our portfolio companies by working together on key strategic decisions and operative challenges. As a privately financed venture capital investor with long-term and flexible capital we are looking for exceptional founders who are committed to building category leaders throughout the next 5-10+ years. We invest in early-stage technology ventures with a focus on financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech and e-commerce. Picus makes initial investments in pre-seed, seed and series A ventures thereby starting to work together with entrepreneurs in various stages of their companies ranging from ideation phase to initial traction. We follow a very long-term investment approach investing significant amounts throughout the lifecycle of the companies. We have invested in over 50 companies to date. At Picus we work in a culture combining the discipline of a financial investor with the creativity and pragmatism of an entrepreneur. We follow a comprehensive and well-structured investment approach in order to identify the most attractive and ambitious investment opportunities in our target industries and geographies. Within our core investment team every member has a distinctive industry competence and a functional or geographic focus. We are working closely together with our portfolio companies to develop large and successful market leaders. This comprises in particular leveraging our marketing & sales expertise and our global market perspective to provide strategic advice, providing HR management to grant access to top talent, connecting our portfolio companies with our broad B2B & investor network as well as supporting the fundraising process.

Picus Capital

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

Initialized Capital

NFX operates as a pre-seed & seed stage investor that is transforming how true innovators are funded for entrepreneurs. They believe that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. As Founders, they reinvented industries with this mindset. As investors, their approach is no different. They do this by asking ourselves one question - ideally, how should the startup experience work for Founders, both NFX and the whole ecosystem. NFX lens is always through the eyes of the Founder. The firm approach is to first build an early-stage experience for all Founders that is powered by more software. Second, to bring the founders they back exponential yet little-known techniques for network effects and growth. Third, to make visible the typically seen methods of technology's most impactful companies. Having built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits across multiple industries and geographies, they're entrepreneurs first because they're entrepreneurs first. And they are determined to guard the backs of the next generation of fearless founders.

Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment vehicle founded by Jon Oringer and Edward Lando. We execute on dozens of investments per month and are often the first to back exceptional entrepreneurs. We are industry and geography agnostic, and specialize in pre-seeding companies. We’ve made 500+ investments to date. Unlike others, we only invest our own money with a small and mighty team around the world.

Pareto Holdings

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Bee Partners is a pre-seed deep tech venture firm.  We write Founders their first check and partner on their journey from zero to one.  These founders have the smarts, grit, and humanity to create the machines of tomorrow in AI/ML, Robotics, Automation, Synthetic Biology, and more.   Bee Partners is a collective of builders, designers, entrepreneurs, operators, and technologists with experience across big tech, startups, [research labs] and more.  We share a common goal: to deliver outcomes in the form of customers, ROI and venture-scale returns for our Founders, enterprise partners, and investors.  Our approach has led the portfolio to a 60%+ matriculation rate to Series A. Bee’s portfolio companies realize accelerated growth and have secured over $1.8B in follow-on capital from the world's top VCs.

Bee Partners

GFC is a venture fund that supports entrepreneurs at various stages of business development. It focuses on global markets and seeks individuals with innovative ideas. The fund evaluates opportunities based on potential impact and feasibility.

Global Founders Capital

Moso Capital is a firm founded by Y Combinator alumni that makes small investments in early stage companies.

Moso Capital

Impact: 80+ startups. 31 exits. $150+ bn in value.

Chang Corporation

Airbnb operates an online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations. The company facilitates bookings and provides tools for both parties to manage their transactions. Airbnb focuses on various types of lodging, including homes and unique stays.

Airbnb

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Comcast Ventures

The Employee Stock Option Fund provides current and former employees of venture-backed companies with financial help needed to exercise options and cover associated taxes. It has a due diligence strategy and transaction protocol to evaluate and close transactions very quickly. The ESO Fund provides a new approach to exercising stock options that provides superior ROI potential through leverage and tax optimization. The fund also provides individuals who have already exercised private stock options with partial liquidity on the same terms that allows the owners to recover capital and eliminate downside risk while still retaining the potential upside from the stock.  ESO Fund was formed by Stephen Roberts, Jimmy Lackie, and Scott Chou in 2012.

Employee Stock Option Fund

CEAS Investments is a single-family office that makes long term investments with a capital of a top venture firm. Its portfolio companies include Fivetran, FourKites, SqlDBM, Marqii, and Dataminr. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Delray Beach, Florida.

CEAS Investments

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

TI Platform Management is an investment firm that backs disruptive business venture models and ambitious founders. It was established in 2015 by Alex Bangash and Trang T. Nguyen and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

TI Platform Management

Spike Ventures is a VC fund that invests in Stanford-connected companies.

Spike Ventures

Bossa Invest manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients. It analyzes market trends to inform investment decisions. Bossa Invest serves multiple sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate.

Bossa Invest

Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

Since its inception in 1987, the Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG)* has grown from a trading firm on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange to one of the largest privately held financial institutions in the world. With more than 1,500 employees worldwide, SIG sits at the helm of the latest trends and developments in trading and market making, institutional sales, research, private equity, venture capital, and investment banking. SIG has offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.  SIG distinguishes itself through its global market presence, capital commitment, and its grasp of trading dynamics. It excels at decision theory and implementing sophisticated pricing probability models.  Their distinction lies in their approach to problem solving - a process guided by the tenets of decision theory and probability. Every choice they make, whether it is developing a new business line, executing a particularly challenging transaction, or bringing new members of the SIG team on board, is done with an eye keen to how that decision affects their overall growth strategy. They believe that their most successful endeavors depend on how well their choices fit together. Their sound decision-making acumen in uncertain environments gives us a substantial intellectual and analytical edge in the global marketplace.

Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

BBQ Capital is an early-stage venture capital company.

BBQ Capital

Castor Ventures is an investment firm. Castor Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies to build diversified venture portfolios invested alongside established venture firms.

Castor Ventures

Miras

Zeus Living

Zeus Living is a property management company, rents furnished housing properties to startups, students, and companies in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. It also manages furnished properties on behalf of property owners.

Zeus Living is a furnished corporate housing provider operating in major cities across the US, including San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York. The company offers professionals the flexibility to live in different locations without sacrificing the comforts of home. Zeus Living primarily caters to business travelers, relocating employees, and individuals requiring short-term housing solutions for extended stays of 30 days or longer.

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Zeus Living is a furnished corporate housing provider operating in major cities across the US, including San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York. The company offers professionals the flexibility to live in different locations without sacrificing the comforts of home. Zeus Living primarily caters to business travelers, relocating employees, and individuals requiring short-term housing solutions for extended stays of 30 days or longer.
Zeus Living's accommodations include apartments, houses, and condominiums, outfitted with amenities like high-speed WiFi, in-unit laundry facilities, handpicked furnishings from reputable brands, and essential household items. The company's operations teams provide 24/7 support for property maintenance and special requests, ensuring a seamless living experience for residents.
As of October 2019, Zeus Living had a portfolio of 1,600 homes across its operational markets. Since its inception in 2015, the company has served over 27,000 residents. Zeus Living has established partnerships with companies such as Bird, ServiceTitan, HackerOne, and Samsara to provide corporate housing solutions.

Outsite is a global network of co-living spaces designed for digital nomads, remote workers, and location-independent professionals. Founded in 2015, Outsite offers fully-furnished private accommodations, such as apartments, studios, and private rooms, with reliable high-speed internet, workspaces, and amenities tailored for remote work and productivity.
As of 2024, Outsite operates 49 co-living spaces across the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. These locations range from urban centers to coastal retreats and alpine getaways, providing a diverse array of destinations for digital nomads to explore while maintaining their work routine.
Outsite's co-living spaces are equipped with dedicated workspaces, including desks, common areas, and, in some locations, coworking cafes. Accommodations typically feature private bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, fully-equipped kitchens, outdoor spaces, and other amenities like pools, hot tubs, and laundry facilities.
To ensure a seamless experience, each Outsite location has a dedicated Community Manager who assists with check-in, organizes events, and provides support to guests. The company also partners with organizations like One Tree Planted to promote sustainability, planting a tree for every booking made.
Outsite operates on a membership model, offering annual and lifetime plans that provide access to exclusive deals, perks, and the ability to book stays across their global network. Members can earn credits and rewards for longer stays, fostering a sense of community among digital nomads who frequently move between Outsite locations.

Outsite

The Collective is a pioneering co-living company that offers a new way of urban living for renters, particularly those in their 20s and 30s, in London. It operates large-scale co-living buildings that provide private en-suite or studio apartments along with access to shared amenities like gyms, cinemas, spas, co-working spaces, and community events. The company's primary focus is on offering convenience, community, and an enhanced living experience through fully-furnished units, utilities included, housekeeping services, and a vibrant events program.
The Collective's flagship properties include the 550-room The Collective Old Oak in West London and the 705-room world's largest co-living building in Canary Wharf. The company's business model is centered around providing value for money by allowing tenants to trade private space for more communal areas, resulting in lower rents compared to traditional apartments. This approach aims to address the growing demand for affordable housing among young professionals in major cities.
In response to the pandemic, The Collective adapted its events program to a hybrid format, offering both in-person and virtual options. It also partnered with experts to introduce wellness initiatives and practices to support members' mental and physical health during lockdowns. While The Collective faced challenges during the pandemic, leading to its collapse in late 2021, its two live sites in London remained operational after reaching an agreement with stakeholders, indicating confidence in the co-living model's fundamentals.
The Collective's acquisition by Red Door Ventures fell through in mid-2018, but lenders Deutsche Bank and Catalina RE provided substantial debt for the Old Oak development, valuing it higher than the initial asking price, implying a yield of around 4.00%. This demonstrated the investment community's confidence in the collective living concept.

The Collective

PodShare is a co-living community that offers an innovative housing solution catering to millennials, digital nomads, and individuals seeking flexibility, affordability, and a sense of community. The company operates on the principle of "access, not ownership," providing members with access to fully furnished private sleeping pods and shared amenities across multiple locations.
PodShare's housing network spans various neighborhoods in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with plans to expand further. The core concept revolves around custom-built 50 sq ft sleeping pods that are part of larger shared living spaces. This co-living arrangement not only promotes cost-effectiveness but also fosters social interaction and a sense of community among members, which the company refers to as "maximum collisions."
The PodShare model offers an all-inclusive living experience, encompassing furnished accommodations, utilities, toiletries, daily cleaning services, and additional perks like access to food, events, gyms, software, and entertainment subscriptions. The flexible payment options and no-deposit policy contribute to a hassle-free living experience for members.
PodShare's disruptive approach addresses the challenges of unaffordable and inflexible housing in urban areas. By offering a location-independent housing network, members can seamlessly transfer their accommodations without the need to pay for multiple residences simultaneously.
Founded in 2012 by Elvina Beck, a Russian-born entrepreneur, PodShare has grown from its first location in Hollywood to multiple sites across Los Angeles. In 2019, the company expanded to San Francisco, marking its first location outside of Los Angeles. Beck's vision aligns with the evolving societal preferences, particularly among millennials and freelancers who value flexibility, affordability, and community over traditional living arrangements.

Podshare

Colonies is a pioneering French startup offering urban co-living solutions. It operates a unique co-living model that combines affordability, community, and convenience, particularly appealing to young professionals and students seeking more than just accommodation in cities. Each Colonies co-living space features fully furnished private bedrooms or studios alongside common areas designed to foster a sense of community.
The company's approach involves sourcing and refurbishing properties, furnishing them to create a blend of private and communal spaces. As of May 2022, Colonies had around 1,100 tenants across 180 sites in Paris, Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lille, Berlin, and Brussels. Properties range from houses to apartment buildings, with larger developments like a 330-unit residence planned for delivery in Orsay in 2022.
Colonies aims to provide flexible, community-focused living environments with an average monthly rent of EUR 590 as of 2022, inclusive of utilities, insurance, internet, and weekly cleaning services for shared areas. The startup raised EUR 221 million in funding over four rounds by December 2023, with a EUR 30 million round led by Crédit Mutuel Impact in December 2023 to support expansion plans.
While initially targeting young professionals, Colonies has broadened its offerings to cater to students, who comprised 35% of its tenant base by 2022. The company envisions extending its co-living concept to families, offering amenities like childcare facilities and spaces for parents to socialize.

Colonies

Zoku is a pioneering home-office hybrid hotel concept designed for global nomads and traveling professionals. Launched in 2016, it redefines the traditional hotel experience by providing flexible living and working spaces under one roof. The brand's core offering is the Zoku Loft, a revolutionary room design that shifts the focus from the bed to the living area, featuring a multifunctional space with a kitchen, work desk, and loft-style sleeping area accessible via a retractable staircase.
Zoku's lofts are equipped with modern amenities, including fully-equipped kitchens, ample storage, office supplies, and stylish furnishings from Danish design brand Muuto. The concept prioritizes intelligent use of space, facilitating seamless transitions between living, working, and socializing. Beyond the lofts, Zoku offers diverse social areas, coworking spaces, rooftop gardens, fitness studios, and event venues to foster a sense of community and connection among residents and locals.
Since its inception in Amsterdam, Zoku has expanded to Copenhagen and Vienna, with plans to establish a presence in other European innovation hubs like London, Barcelona, Berlin, and Paris. The brand has garnered recognition for its innovative approach, winning accolades such as the 2015 Radical Innovation Award and "Best Innovation & Disruption" from the Serviced Apartment Awards.

Zoku

Companies that provide communal-living (co-living) spaces with separate or shared living spaces.

Companies that function on an owner-operator model or as a third party platform to provide fully furnished apartments/ houses for rent as a "ready-to-live" service for customers either on a month-to-month basis, or shorter/ longer stays as decided by the customer.

Companies that construct tiny or micro homes, often with reduced building/ assembly times with added eco-friendly elements.

Companies that construct mobile tiny or micro homes which can be attached to a vehicle to be transported.

Companies that develop housing that is designed to withstand and mitigate the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes using resilient building materials or special features.

Companies that develop solutions which support alternative living styles with solutions such as multipurpose and manoeuvrable furniture, modular sleeping pods, smart motorized storage solutions etc.

Living solutions that have a lower negative environmental impact compared with traditional homes

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