7GC & Co

7GC is a venture investment firm dedicated to investing in highly compelling tech opportunities across the US, Europe, and beyond.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

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7GC is a venture investment firm dedicated to investing in highly compelling tech opportunities across the US, Europe, and beyond.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Apr 1, 2025	Push Security	$30.0M Series B	—	Ansa Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Citi Ventures, Decibel Partners, Felicis Ventures, GV, Insight Partners, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Matt Carbonara, Ron Pragides
Nov 1, 2024	Linkup	$3.0M Seed	—	360 Capital Partners, Axeleo Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Foundamental, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Seedcamp, Y Combinator, Matt Carbonara, Nicolas Debock, Rodolphe Ardant, Ron Pragides, Roxanne Varza
Nov 1, 2024	VISO TRUST	$7.0M Venture Round	—	Addition, Bain Capital Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Blu Venture Investors, Cisco Investments, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Kima Ventures, Lytical Ventures, Motier Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Sierra Ventures, Soma Capital, SYN Ventures, Work-Bench, Y Combinator, Douglas Merritt, George Kurtz, Matt Carbonara, Nitay Joffe, Pete Koomen, Ron Pragides
Oct 1, 2024	Third Dimension AI	$7.0M Seed	—	Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Sequoia Capital, Baylor Adams, Matt Carbonara, Ron Pragides
Oct 1, 2024	DinMo	$6.0M Seed	—	Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Felix Capital, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Charles Gorintin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Jeremy Yap, Mathilde Collin, Matt Carbonara, Nicolas Brusson, Romain Niccoli, Ron Pragides
Oct 1, 2024	Stream Security	$30.0M Series B	—	.406 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Evolution Equity Partners, Felicis Ventures, GIT1K, Glilot Capital Partners, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Operator Partners, PS Investments, Redpoint Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, #SecretFund, TLV Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Matt Carbonara, Ron Pragides
Oct 1, 2024	Poolside	$500.0M Series B	—	Alumni Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bow Capital, Citi Ventures, Cusp Capital Partners, Double Prime LLP, Entrepreneur First, Essence VC, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, IVP, Kima Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Motier Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Unusual Ventures, Alexis Bonillo, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Ameet Patel, Ben Porterfield, Chris Schagen, Florian Douetteau, Guy Fighel, Matt Carbonara, Neha Narkhede, Rodolphe Ardant, Ron Pragides, Thibaud Elziere
Mar 1, 2024	The Mobile-First Company	$4.0M First Company - Seed	—	Autotech Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, eFounders, Felicis Ventures, Kima Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Motier Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Sequoia Capital, Matt Carbonara, Nico Rosberg, Ron Pragides, Roxanne Varza, Steve Anavi, Thibaud Elziere
Mar 1, 2024	Lily AI	$20.0M Series B	—	BlueRun Ventures, Camber Creek, Canaan Partners, Conductive Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, Interplay Ventures, Left Lane Capital, M13, QEY Capital, Raine Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, WestWave Capital, Dennis Crowley, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Whitney Cummings
Jan 1, 2024	Qdrant	$28.0M Series A	—	Builders, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Scalebridge Capital, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
Nov 1, 2023	Sunnyside	$12.0M Series A	—	11.2 Capital, Atomic, Bain Capital Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, FTX Ventures, iNovia Capital, Kima Ventures, Lightbank, Motier Ventures, Oceans, Pareto Holdings, Penny Jar Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Scribble Ventures, #SecretFund, Uncork Capital, Deborah Liu, Matt Carbonara, Neha Narkhede, Peter Kern, Ron Pragides
Nov 1, 2023	AppFlowy	$6.0M Seed	—	Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, Audrey Capital, Builders, C2 Investment, DGF Investimentos, Embedded Ventures, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Greycroft, Jett Fein, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, monashees, Vanessa Larco, Preston-Werner Ventures, REMUS Capital, Scalebridge Capital, SignalFire, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, Union Square Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Adeel Hussain, Amr Awadallah, Biz Stone, Bob Young, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jared Leto, Jason Haider, Justin David Blau, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Lin, Peter Sonsini, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Steve Chen, Vikas Sabnani
Jun 1, 2023	BIOS	$20.0M Series A	—	Ada Ventures, Builders, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Scalebridge Capital, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, Adeel Hussain, Alan MacIntosh, Charlie Songhurst, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Evan Cheng, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
May 1, 2023	Anthropic	$450.0M Series C	—	AI4ALL, AIX Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Builders, C2 Investment, Cambrian Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, Coatue, DTCP, E1 Ventures, Electric Capital, Entrée Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton Investments, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, General Catalyst, GoAhead Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Incisive Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, iNovia Capital, Lakeside Capital, LGF, Point72 Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Roosh Ventures, Scalebridge Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, Supercharge.vc, Thomvest Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Y Combinator, Adeel Hussain, Alexandre Scialom, Ben Lang, Brad Bitler, Dustin Moskovitz, Elad Gil, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Jeffrey Wilke, Jennifer Wolf, Justin Mateen, Nimit Maru, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani, Vinay Hiremath, William Hockey
Apr 1, 2023	Whisper Aero	$33.0M Series A	—	BrandProject, EVE Atlas, Grotech Ventures, High Alpha, Initialized Capital, OCA Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Jack Leeney
Apr 1, 2023	Rock The Bells	$15.0M Series B	—	BlueRun Ventures, Camber Creek, Conductive Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, Interplay Ventures, Left Lane Capital, M13, QEY Capital, Raine Ventures, Dennis Crowley, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Whitney Cummings
Jan 1, 2023	Zurp	$5.0M Seed	—	10X Capital, 20VC, Access Biotechnology, AirAngels, Amity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Asymmetric, Atlas Venture, Awesome People Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Bombas, Buckley Ventures, C2 Investment, Camber Creek, CapitalG, Cardumen Capital, Coalition Operators, Color Capital, Conductive Ventures, Darling Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, Freestyle Capital, Freigeist, Grit Capital Partners, Hack VC, Immeasurable, Interlace Ventures, Interplay Ventures, Jump Crypto, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Left Lane Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, M13, Mantis VC, Menlo Ventures, NFX, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Plaid, QEY Capital, Raine Ventures, Reshape Ventures, Gil Penchina, Saga, Sanofi Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Scribble Ventures, Slow Ventures, SRB Ventures, Trust Fund, Volition Capital, Andy Bechtolsheim, Arash Ferdowsi, Baron Davis, Bill Tai, Christian Reber, Claire Hughes Johnson, Darius Contractor, Dennis Crowley, Ethan Beard, George Ruan, Julian Shapiro, Kevin Hart, Koen Bok, Kunal Shah, Leore Avidar, Louis Beryl, Manik Gupta, Mark Cuban, Mathilde Collin, Melissa Tan, Roger Ehrenberg, Ryan Tedder, Scott Belsky, Shane Battier, Tony Hawk, Tyler Willis, Vindi Banga, Whitney Cummings
Jan 1, 2023	Finley Technologies	$17.0M Series A	—	ACME Capital, All Iron Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bolt, Canvas Ventures, Catapult Capital, Connect Ventures, CRV, Curie.Bio, Double Prime LLP, Earlybird Venture Capital, Element Partners, Fifth Wall, FJ Labs, Haystack, Next Play Ventures, Nine Four Ventures, Passion Capital, PS Investments, Sapphire Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Transmedia Capital, Twenty Two Ventures, Wilshire Lane Capital, David Marcus, Dileep Thazhmon, Eric Demuth, Eric Wu, Francesco Simoneschi, Marc Benioff, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Shervin Pishevar
Nov 1, 2022	DinMo	$2.0M Seed	—	Asylum Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Chausson Partners, Citi Ventures, Connect Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Felix Capital, Kima Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Motier Ventures, Passion Capital, Redpoint Ventures, #SecretFund, Seedcamp, Summit Partners, Twenty Two Ventures, Y Combinator, Alexis Bonillo, Charles Gorintin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Jeremy Yap, Jonathan Widawski, Kyle Porter, Mathilde Collin, Matt Carbonara, Michael Ma, Nicolas Brusson, Peter Kazanjy, Romain Niccoli, Ron Pragides, Thibaud Elziere
Oct 1, 2022	Liquid Death	$70.0M Series D	—	BlueRun Ventures, Camber Creek, Conductive Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, Interplay Ventures, Left Lane Capital, M13, QEY Capital, Raine Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Science, Dennis Crowley, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Sahin Boydas
Sep 1, 2022	Composer	$6.0M Seed	—	20VC, Angel Invest, BlueRun Ventures, Camber Creek, Conductive Ventures, Connect Ventures, Crosslink Capital, First Round Capital, Grit Capital Partners, Interplay Ventures, Left Lane Capital, M13, Pareto Holdings, Peak, QEY Capital, Raine Ventures, Spero Ventures, Stride VC, Y Combinator, Dennis Crowley, Kevin Hart, Lucas Cranach, Mark Cuban, Patrick Andrae, Whitney Cummings
Jun 1, 2022	Encamp	$30.0M Series C	—	Allos Ventures, Alumni Ventures, BrandProject, Costanoa Ventures, Drive Capital, EVE Atlas, Foundry Group, Grotech Ventures, High Alpha, Ignition Partners, Initialized Capital, OCA Ventures, Openview Venture Partners, Pioneer Fund, Powerhouse Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Bill Smith, Jack Leeney, Jonathan Wasserstrum
Jun 1, 2022	Kinside	$12.0M Series A	—	Bow Capital, Brand Foundry Ventures, BrandProject, Craft Ventures, EVE Atlas, Future Ventures, Grotech Ventures, High Alpha, Hoxton Ventures, Initialized Capital, Magnify Ventures, Maven Ventures, OCA Ventures, Okta Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Aaron Levie, Jack Leeney, Jared Simon, Sam Shank, Tirto Adji
Jun 1, 2022	Anyone AI	$2.0M Seed	—	Acrew Capital, All Iron Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, C2 Investment, Canvas Ventures, Fifth Wall, FJ Labs, Gradient Ventures, Sangeen Zeb, Infinite Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Predictive VC, PS Investments, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Jarrod Dicker, Eric Wu, Marc Benioff, Peter Reinhardt, Will Gaybrick, Zachary Sims
May 1, 2022	TENYX	$15.0M Seed	—	AI4ALL, Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Angel investor, Builders, Coelius Capital, Converge Venture Partners, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Greylock, GSR Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Liza Landsman, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Outsized Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Possible Ventures, Scalebridge Capital, Signia Venture Partners, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, StageOne Ventures, Sunfish Partners, The General Partnership, True North Cos., Visionaire Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Dylan Field, Elia Montanari, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ishani Patel, Jason Haider, Mike Vernal, Othman Laraki, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani

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Deep Dive

7GC & Co – High-Level Overview

7GC & Co is a boutique private investment manager focused on growth-stage technology businesses with global potential, particularly in the US and Europe. The firm’s mission is to deliver attractive venture capital returns with improved liquidity by investing in high-growth tech companies at the Series B+ stage. Its investment philosophy centers on disciplined, private equity-style growth investing—seeking businesses with strong financial fundamentals and proven traction, rather than speculative early-stage ventures. 7GC specializes in consumer internet and enterprise software, with a geographic split of about 75% US and 25% Europe and the rest of the world. By acting as a bridge between US founders and European growth opportunities, 7GC has become a valued partner for both entrepreneurs and leading global investors, helping to accelerate the international expansion of portfolio companies.

Origin Story

Founded in 2016, 7GC & Co was established by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors with deep roots in both Silicon Valley and Europe. The founding partners—Alexander Argyros, Jack Leeney, and Chris Walsh—brought together decades of experience in venture capital, private equity, and operating roles at high-growth tech firms. Their vision was to create a firm that could offer limited partners (LPs) access to top-tier US tech investments while providing unique operational support for companies looking to expand into Europe. Over time, 7GC evolved from a traditional venture fund into a multi-product platform, launching a SPAC (7GC & Co Holdings) and offering co-investment opportunities to further enhance liquidity and diversification for its investors. The firm’s early success included leading a $230M Nasdaq IPO acquisition and backing Moonfare, which became a leading global private equity platform.

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: 7GC blends venture capital and private equity approaches, focusing on growth-stage companies with proven business models and strong financials. It offers LPs better liquidity through its SPAC and co-investment vehicles.
Cross-Border Network: With teams in California, Germany, Luxembourg, and the UK, 7GC leverages deep relationships with US founders and European investors, enabling portfolio companies to access new markets and talent.
Track Record: The firm has delivered strong returns, including a 34% DPI, 29% IRR, and 2.2x MoM for its first fund, with two exits among ten investments.
Operating Support: 7GC provides hands-on support to founders, particularly in navigating European expansion, regulatory environments, and strategic partnerships.
Syndicate Leadership: The firm regularly co-leads or participates in syndicates with top-tier investors like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

7GC & Co is riding the wave of globalization in tech, as US startups increasingly seek international growth and European investors look for exposure to high-potential US ventures. The firm’s cross-border expertise positions it at the intersection of two of the world’s most dynamic tech ecosystems. By facilitating transatlantic expansion and providing structured liquidity options, 7GC is helping to reshape how growth-stage companies scale and how investors access global opportunities. The rise of SPACs and the growing appetite for late-stage tech investments have further amplified 7GC’s relevance, making it a key player in the evolving landscape of venture and growth investing.

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, 7GC & Co is well-positioned to continue capitalizing on the convergence of US and European tech markets. As more startups pursue global expansion and investors demand more liquidity and transparency, 7GC’s hybrid model—combining venture, private equity, and SPAC strategies—will likely become even more attractive. The firm’s focus on disciplined investing, operational support, and cross-border collaboration will be critical as it navigates an increasingly competitive and interconnected tech ecosystem. 7GC’s journey reflects a broader trend: the blurring of lines between venture capital, private equity, and public markets, and the growing importance of global networks in driving innovation and returns. As the tech world becomes more interconnected, 7GC & Co is poised to remain a bridge between continents and a catalyst for growth.

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7GC & Co – High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: 7GC blends venture capital and private equity approaches, focusing on growth-stage companies with proven business models and strong financials. It offers LPs better liquidity through its SPAC and co-investment vehicles.
Cross-Border Network: With teams in California, Germany, Luxembourg, and the UK, 7GC leverages deep relationships with US founders and European investors, enabling portfolio companies to access new markets and talent.
Track Record: The firm has delivered strong returns, including a 34% DPI, 29% IRR, and 2.2x MoM for its first fund, with two exits among ten investments.
Operating Support: 7GC provides hands-on support to founders, particularly in navigating European expansion, regulatory environments, and strategic partnerships.
Syndicate Leadership: The firm regularly co-leads or participates in syndicates with top-tier investors like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.