645 Ventures

What they do

645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. Select portfolio companies that have reached the growth stage include Iterable, Goldbelly, Resident, Eden Health, FiscalNote, and Squire. We invest in four main areas: SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, The Engineering Value Chain Revolution, and Personalized Consumer Applications. You can read more here: 645 Ventures has $200m+ in AUM and is growing fast with backing from leading institutional investors, including university endowments, funds of funds, and pension funds. We have over 35 active companies in our portfolio in the areas of enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, and consumer technology. Several of our portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Expedia, and private equity firms.

What they look for

645 Ventures focuses on four core thematic areas: SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals (software that reduces the complexity of tasks usually requiring a trained expert), The Engineering Value Chain Revolution (developer tools and infrastructure), and Personalized Consumer Applications. They evaluate entrepreneurs based on their "Four Founder Paradigms": Purity of Motivation, Earned Secret, Obsessed Problem Solving, and Non-Consensus Thinking.

Stage

Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

SaaS, Cybersecurity, AI, Fintech, Consumer

Based

New York, US