Charge Ventures

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Updated: Jan 22, 2026 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Jul 1, 2025	Queen One	$6.0M Seed	—	Eunoia Capital Partners, Inspired Capital, Oak HC/FT, Presto Ventures, Red Swan Ventures
Sep 1, 2024	Flower	$2.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, Browder Capital, Cortical Ventures, Magnify Ventures, Slow Ventures, Village Global, Siqi Chen
Feb 1, 2024	UnityAI	$4.0M Seed	—	CapitalX, Craft Ventures, Max Ventures, Trace Cohen, Robin Li, Surface Ventures, Matt Turk
Oct 1, 2023	Midwest Games	$3.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, TitletownTech, Vishal Rao
Oct 1, 2023	Cedar	$3.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, First Star Ventures, Haystack, Humba Ventures, TitletownTech, Vishal Rao
Aug 1, 2023	ConverSight	$9.0M Series A	—	CapitalX, Craft Ventures, Max Ventures, Trace Cohen, Robin Li, Surface Ventures, Matt Turk
Feb 1, 2023	Slate	$6.0M Seed	—	Bennett Siegel, Alumni Ventures, CapitalX, Craft Ventures, Max Ventures, Trace Cohen, Robin Li, Surface Ventures, TitletownTech, Tusk Venture Partners, Ellie Wheeler, Jared Hyatt, Matt Turk
Jan 1, 2022	Thalamus	$7.0M Venture Round	—	Alumni Ventures, TitletownTech
Jan 1, 2022	Lunchbox Technologies	$50.0M Series B	—	01 Advisors, 040 Capital, 305 Ventures, 645 Ventures, Altair Capital Management, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Browder Capital, Cedar Capital Group, CRV, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gutter Capital, Jeff Richards, Penny Jar Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Valhalla Capital, Trevor Noah
Dec 1, 2021	Swimply	$40.0M Venture Round	—	AirAngels, Alex, Boost VC, CapitalX, Cedar Capital Group, Citi Ventures, Craft Ventures, DCM, DSG Consumer Partners, Ensemble VC, EVE Atlas, General Catalyst, Golden Ventures, GreaterGoodSociety, Hambro Perks, Kaszek Ventures, Manutara Ventures, Matias Ventures, Max Ventures, Mayfield, Moderne Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Trace Cohen, Norwest Venture Partners, Hans Tung, Robin Li, Notable Capital, Owl Rock Capital Partners, Picus Capital, SignalFire, Surface Ventures, TSVC Capital, V3 Ventures, Y Combinator, Asaf Fybish, Brad Bao, Bradley Horowitz, Carlos Julio Garcia, Deborah Liu, Diego Fleischmann, Fidji Simo, Frederic Kerrest, Jacqueline Reses, Lily Sarafan, Manish Chandra, Matt Turk, Michael Fey, Michael Whitfield, Nico Barawid, Oskar Hjertonsson, Ricardo Weder, Sohaib Abbasi, Vivek Garipalli
Dec 1, 2021	Tackle	$100.0M Series C	—	01 Advisors, Andreessen Horowitz, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bond, Bowery Capital, Coatue, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, General Catalyst, Gutter Capital, Insight Partners, Matrix, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Propeller VC, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures, Girish Mathrubootham, Gokul Rajaram, Sahin Boydas
Nov 1, 2021	Nexar	$53.0M Series D	—	01 Advisors, Accel, Aleph VC, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Bungalow Capital, Coatue, Company Capital, Corner Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Fifth Down Capital, General Catalyst, Gutter Capital, Intuit Ventures, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Silicon Badia, SOSV, Supernode Ventures, Julia Kagan
Nov 1, 2021	Kidas	$2.0M Seed	—	CapitalX, Craft Ventures, Max Ventures, New York Venture Partners (NYVP), Robin Li, Surface Ventures, Matt Turk
Nov 1, 2021	Density	$130.0M Series D	—	01 Advisors, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, CRV, Davidovs VC, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Founders Fund, Geek Ventures, Gutter Capital, Frederique Dame, Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Erel Margalit, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, LombardStreet Ventures, M12, MATH Venture Partners, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Section 32, Silicon Badia, Sinai Ventures, Supernode Ventures, Supply Change Capital, Upfront Ventures, VSC Ventures, Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social), Chris Murphy, Chuck Eesley, Kevin Lin, Marty Weiss, Nate Mitchell, Sebastien Borget
Oct 1, 2021	Manufactured	$3.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gutter Capital, Notable Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures, Umami Capital
Oct 1, 2021	HiveWatch	$20.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, Andreessen Horowitz, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Flybridge Capital Partners, Gutter Capital, Index Ventures, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures, Erica Alioto, Gokul Rajaram, Laszlo Bock, Tom Monahan
Jun 1, 2021	Snackpass	$70.0M Series B	—	Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Jana Messerschmidt, Animo Ventures, Backstage Capital, Banana Capital, Battery Ventures, BoxGroup, Canyon Creek, CapitalX, ClimacticVC, Correlation Ventures, Craft Ventures, DST Global, Dunce Capital, DX Ventures, Dyrdek Machine, Fifth Wall, First Round Capital, Immeasurable, Inspired Capital, Inventus Capital Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, Max Ventures, Moving Capital, NEO, Trace Cohen, Night Capital, Jeff Richards, Robin Li, Octopus Ventures, One Planet Group, Shailendra Singh, Pioneer Fund, Pitbull Ventures, Polychain Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Republic, Republic Records, Sageview Capital, Science, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Spark Capital, Stellar Capital, Surface Ventures, Tet Ventures, The Hit Forge, Think + Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Venture Highway, WestCap, YLEM, Aaron Harris, Breon Corcoran, Demetrios Christofidis Jr, Elliott Cohen, Eric Wu, Farhad Mohit, James Reinhart, Jeremy Yap, Josh Mohrer, Kevin Lin, Kristian Segerstrale, Kunal Shah, Larry Summers, Mandeep Singh, Manish Chandra, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Matthew Dellavedova, Matt Turk, Mitch Garber, Mohit Saxena, Nick Jonas, Odell Beckham Jr., Rashaun Williams, Rudra Peram, Russell Cook, Sahil Lavingia, Sam Corcos, Sarah Friar, Scott Banister, Steve Aoki, Steve Chen, TJ Parker
May 1, 2021	Bosta	$7.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gutter Capital, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures
Apr 1, 2021	RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto)	$750K Seed	—	Bennu, Bullpen Capital, CapitalX, Commerce Ventures, Craft Ventures, Cyphr VC, Javelin Venture Partners, Max Ventures, Monroe Capital, Mucker Capital, Trace Cohen, Robin Li, Surface Ventures, Vayner RSE, Adam Schwartz, Andrew Gluck, Baron Davis, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Jason Gardner, Jason Robins, Konstantin von Unger, Larry Braitman, Lawrence Braitman, Matt Turk, Omar Soliman, Peter Kight, Phil Libin, Sébastien Deguy, Tamim Mourad, Will Kassoy, Yahya Mokhtarzada
Apr 1, 2021	Formation	$4.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Browder Capital, Cedar Capital Group, Convective Capital, Curie.Bio, Designer Fund, Founder Collective, Gradient Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, MZ, Operator Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Slow Ventures, Soma Capital, Stellar Capital, Tribe Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Ben Porterfield, Larry Gadea, Michael Ma, Siqi Chen
Mar 1, 2021	Tackle	$35.0M Series B	—	01 Advisors, Andreessen Horowitz, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, General Catalyst, Gutter Capital, Matrix, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures
Dec 1, 2020	WorkWhile	$4.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, Browder Capital, City Light Capital, Floodgate, Hardware Club, Khosla Ventures, Owl Capital, Slow Ventures, TechAviv Founder Partners, Fidji Simo, Mark Pincus, Sagi Paz, Taz Patel
Nov 1, 2020	Levels	$12.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, 10100, 1confirmation, 8-Bit Capital, AAF Management Ltd., Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Accel, Adjacent, AirAngels, Altair Capital Management, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Jana Messerschmidt, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Atreides Management, Backed VC, Basecamp Fund, B Capital Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Betaworks Ventures, Bowery Capital, Brainchild, Brainstorm Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Contrary Capital, Craft Ventures, CrunchFund, Ali Tamaseb, Divergence Ventures, Draper Associates, Dreamers VC, Earl Grey Capital, Electric Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Expert Dojo, f7 Ventures, Factorial, FirstMark Capital, Flex Capital, Floodgate, Foundation Capital, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Future Ventures, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Greylock, Gutter Capital, Helium-3 Ventures, H.I.G. Capital, Hustle Fund, Ideas & Capital, Incisive Ventures, Infinite Niches, Jigsaw VC, KW Angel Fund, Leadout Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, M12, Math Capital, Metaplanet, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, New Form Capital, Nonlinear, Norwest Venture Partners, Jeff Richards, Operator Ventures, Owl Rock Capital Partners, Pareto Holdings, Peak State Ventures, Pioneer Square Labs, Plug & Play Ventures, Polychain Capital, Practical Venture Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Rivet Ventures, Robot Ventures, Round One Capital, Safar Partners, Scale Asia Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Shrug Capital, Silicon Badia, Slow Ventures, SNR, Solana Ventures, Sound Ventures, Splash Capital, Supernode Ventures, The Hit Forge, Thirty Five Ventures, Thrive Capital, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tucker Seed Fund LLC, Ulu Ventures, Unruly Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, VZVC, Wave Capital, What If Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, YLEM, Adam D'Angelo, Andre Iguodala, Arash Ferdowsi, Armando Mann, Aston Motes, Augusto Marietti, Balaji Srinivasan, Baron Davis, Bradley Horowitz, Brendan O'Driscoll, Christine Herron, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Dennis Crowley, Derrick Li, Diego Berdakin, Dylan Field, Eric Bunting, Eric Ries, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Giovanni Gardelli, Gokul Rajaram, Howie Liu, Immad Akhund, Jaan Tallinn, Jack Smith, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Joe Greenstein, Joshua Reeves, Karen King, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Leore Avidar, Marat Kichikov, Mario Gabriele, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Matt Bellamy, Matteo Franceschetti, Matthew Dellavedova, Moshe Lifschitz, Paul McKellar, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Sheila Vashee, Siqi Chen, Stani Kulechov, Sue Xu, Sumon Sadhu, Tim Kendall, Vitalik Buterin, Zack Kanter
Oct 1, 2020	Lunchbox Technologies	$20.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, 040 Capital, 645 Ventures, Bennett Siegel, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Allegion Ventures, Altair Capital Management, Animo Ventures, Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Cedar Capital Group, CRV, ENIAC Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Forum Ventures, Foundation Capital, Founder Collective, Greycroft, Gutter Capital, Intuition Capital, MetaProp Ventures, Jeff Richards, Peak State Ventures, Penny Jar Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Rock Ventures, Silicon Badia, Supernode Ventures, Thrive Capital, TitletownTech, Trinity Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Vera Equity, VSC Ventures, Andrew Gluck, David de Picciotto, Ellie Wheeler, Jared Hyatt, John Legend, Oliver Friedrichs, Peter Carlsson, Reshma Saujani, Scott Belsky, Tony Jamous, Trevor Noah
Aug 1, 2020	Minerva	$1.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, Browder Capital, Eclipse Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Lux Capital, Max Ventures, Script Capital, Slow Ventures, Social Starts, Surface Ventures, Torch Capital, Siqi Chen

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Leadership Team

Key people at Charge Ventures.

Leadership Team

Key people at Charge Ventures.

Deep Dive

Charge Ventures is a New York City–based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that specializes in early-stage investments, primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages. Its mission is to partner with exceptional founders at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journeys, often providing the first institutional capital alongside angel investors. The firm focuses on data-driven software companies with strong product sensibilities and bottoms-up growth, investing in sectors such as business productivity software, multimedia and design tools, social and platform software, healthcare, AI/ML, marketplaces, the creator economy, direct-to-consumer healthcare, and the future of work. Charge Ventures has built a diverse portfolio including companies like Transfix (freight marketplace), Livepeer (decentralized video streaming), Electric (IT management software unicorn), Parsley Health (personalized healthcare), and GRIN (influencer marketing platform), reflecting its impact on the startup ecosystem by supporting innovative technology startups across multiple industries[1][2][4].

Founded by Brett Martin and Chris Habachy, who bring extensive entrepreneurial and investment experience, Charge Ventures has evolved with a strong emphasis on leveraging proprietary data-driven technology to identify promising founders beyond traditional networks, including non-traditional startup hubs across the U.S. such as NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, San Diego, and Miami. The firm typically invests initial checks ranging from $250K to $750K and often participates in follow-on rounds through special purpose vehicles (SPVs). This approach has enabled Charge to make over 70 investments with a portfolio market cap exceeding $5 billion, demonstrating early traction and a strategic focus on supporting startups from inception to growth[1][2][4].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on pre-seed and seed rounds, often the first institutional capital, with a data-driven approach to sourcing deals beyond traditional networks.
Network Strength: Strong connections with angel investors and a broad geographic focus including emerging U.S. startup ecosystems.
Track Record: Over 70 investments with notable exits and portfolio companies achieving unicorn status.
Operating Support: Active partnership with founders, leveraging the team’s entrepreneurial and investment expertise to accelerate growth.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Charge Ventures rides the wave of increasing early-stage innovation driven by AI, low-code tools, the creator economy, and digital healthcare transformation. Its timing is critical as startups in these sectors seek early capital and strategic support to scale rapidly. By focusing on data-driven software and bottoms-up growth models, Charge aligns with market forces favoring decentralized, scalable, and user-centric technologies. Its influence extends by enabling startups in non-traditional geographies, thus diversifying and enriching the broader U.S. tech ecosystem[2].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Charge Ventures is poised to deepen its impact by continuing to back frontier technologies such as AI and Web3 infrastructure, while expanding its geographic and sectoral reach. Trends like the rise of decentralized platforms, personalized healthcare, and creator-driven marketplaces will likely shape its investment focus. As the firm scales its proprietary sourcing technology and leverages its network, Charge Ventures may evolve into a key catalyst for early-stage innovation, helping founders navigate the complex journey from idea to market leadership.

In summary, Charge Ventures exemplifies a modern, data-driven early-stage VC that combines strategic capital deployment with deep founder support, positioning itself as a vital player in nurturing the next generation of technology startups.

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Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on pre-seed and seed rounds, often the first institutional capital, with a data-driven approach to sourcing deals beyond traditional networks.
Network Strength: Strong connections with angel investors and a broad geographic focus including emerging U.S. startup ecosystems.
Track Record: Over 70 investments with notable exits and portfolio companies achieving unicorn status.
Operating Support: Active partnership with founders, leveraging the team’s entrepreneurial and investment expertise to accelerate growth.