FirstMark Capital

FirstMark Capital
Private
Industry Private Equity
Founded 2008 as FirstMark Capital
Headquarters New York City, U.S.
Key people
 Amish Jani, Rick Heitzmann, Matt Turck, Catherine Ulrich
Products Venture capital
Website www.firstmarkcap.com

FirstMark Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York City. FirstMark invests in early-stage technology companies, frequently as the first institutional investor. It is led by Managing Directors Amish Jani, Rick Heitzmann, Matt Turck, Catherine Ulrich, and Beth Ferreira.

Among the firm's areas of focus are Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, healthcare, enterprise applications, education, financial technology, e-commerce, and marketing technology.

The firm's most notable current investments include Pinterest,[1] InVision,[2] Dashlane,[3] Lumosity,[4], Starry[5], Hubble Contacts[6], and Dataiku[7]. FirstMark was also an investor in Shopify[8] (NYSE: SHOP), Riot Games (acquired by Tencent Holdings)[9], Aveksa[10] (acquired by EMC), Tapad (acquired by Telenor)[11], Boomi (acquired by DELL)[12], and StubHub (acquired by eBay)[13].

FirstMark focuses on Series A and Seed-stage investments, with capital reserved for follow-investments. It closed its latest funds in June 2016, with $480MM in capital commitments.[14]

In addition to its investment team, the firm employs team members focused on areas like corporate development, talent, and community[15] who are responsible for supporting FirstMark companies after an investment. FirstMark also organizes four NYC-based communities revolving around Artificial Intelligence & Big Data[16], design and product management[17], emerging and frontier technology[18], and software development[19].

References

  1. ↑ "Pinterest". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ↑ Ha, Anthony. "InVision Raises $1.5M For Beautiful, Interactive Prototypes". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  3. ↑ Dashlane Passes 2M Users, Collects $22M For Its Client-Based Password Manager. TechCrunch, May 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Lumos Labs Raises $3 Million. VentureBeat, June 3, 2008
  5. ↑ "Aereo's Founder Is Back With Starry. This Time He's Going After Broadband, Not TV". Recode. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  6. ↑ "https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/08/28/contact-lens-brand-hubble-scores-funding.html". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26. External link in |title= (help)
  7. ↑ Dataiku. "Dataiku Secures $14 Million Series A". Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  8. ↑ Shopify Raises $7 Million Series A Funding
  9. ↑ China's Tencent Buys Riot Games for $400 Million
  10. ↑ McBride, Ryan. "Investors Back Growing Bay State Software Firms Aveksa and Apparent Networks in Pair of Series C Financings". xconomy. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "Telenor Jumps Into Ad Tech, Acquires Tapad For $360M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  12. ↑ Dell to Acquire Boomi
  13. ↑ EBay Will Buy StubHub for $310 Million. New York Times, January 11, 2007
  14. ↑ "Announcing Our Newest Funds | FirstMark Capital - New York City Venture Capital". firstmarkcap.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  15. ↑ "Team Members Archive - FirstMark". FirstMark. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  16. ↑ "Data Driven NYC". firstmarkcap.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  17. ↑ "Design Driven NYC". firstmarkcap.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  18. ↑ "Hardwired NYC". firstmarkcap.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  19. ↑ "Code Driven NYC". firstmarkcap.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.


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