Concrete Rose Capital

Concrete Rose Capital operates as an early-stage investment platform that primarily invests in companies serving underrepresented consumers.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2025	Mazlo	$5.0M Seed	—	super{set}
Sep 1, 2024	Raycast	$30.0M Series B	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, Avalanche VC, Balderton Capital, Bling Capital, BR Capital, Dunce Capital, Equal Ventures, High Alpha, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Lazerow Ventures, Maven 11 Capital, Next Play Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Ravelin Capital, Runa Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Village Global, Y Combinator, Bradley Horowitz, Frederic Kerrest, Kyle Vogt, Nick Caldwell, Trent McConaghy, Guillermo Rauch
Oct 1, 2023	Overstory	$14.0M Series A	—	10X Capital, 2.12 Angels, Afore Capital, Altai Ventures, Jean de Fougerolles, Autotech Ventures, B Capital Group, Bling Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Convective Capital, Equity Alliance, Flexcap, FPV Fund, Human Capital, Humba Ventures, INBlockchain, Khosla Ventures, Magma Partners, Morpheus Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Recharge Capital, Revel Partners, Ribbit Capital, Tuesday Capital, White Star Capital, Anthony Pompliano, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gopi Kallayil, Mark Cuban, Mei Z., Rikard Steiber, Tikhon Bernstam, Vivek Garipalli
Apr 1, 2023	m3ter	$14.0M Series A	—	Atomico, Balderton Capital, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures
Feb 1, 2023	Nestment	$4.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Ballistic Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, Founders Fund, Greenoaks Capital, IVP, Ribbit Capital, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, TCV, Tiger Global Management, Vamos Ventures, Y Combinator, Christopher Langford, Elad Gil, Justin Mateen, Larry Summers
Nov 1, 2022	Overstory	$5.0M Seed	—	10X Capital, 2.12 Angels, Afore Capital, Altai Ventures, Jean de Fougerolles, Autotech Ventures, B Capital Group, Bling Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Convective Capital, Equity Alliance, Flexcap, FPV Fund, Human Capital, Humba Ventures, INBlockchain, Khosla Ventures, Magma Partners, Morpheus Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Recharge Capital, Revel Partners, Ribbit Capital, Tuesday Capital, White Star Capital, Anthony Pompliano, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gopi Kallayil, Mark Cuban, Mei Z., Rikard Steiber, Tikhon Bernstam, Vivek Garipalli
Oct 1, 2022	Levity	$8.0M Seed	—	AngelList Syndicator, Atomico, Backed VC, backtrace capital, Balderton Capital, Chalfen Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Craig Shapiro, Curious Capital, DST Global, Faction VC, General Catalyst, Icebreaker.vc, Insight Partners, La Famiglia, LearnStart, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Pareto Holdings, Partech Ventures, Picus Capital, Play Ventures, Project A Ventures, Anya Ruvinskaya, Bradley Horowitz, Charlie Songhurst, Hanno Renner, Michael Wax, Ragnar Sass, Stefan Jeschonnek
Aug 1, 2022	Topline Pro	$5.0M Seed	—	BBG Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Feenix Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Ganas Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Northzone, Struck Capital, The Community Fund, Threshold Ventures, TMV, Jim Schneider
Jul 1, 2022	Daivergent	$3.0M Seed	—	Emergence Capital, Next Play Ventures, Predictive VC, Serena Ventures, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Zeal Capital Partners, Gregory Waldorf, Ollen Douglass
Apr 1, 2022	Studio	$50.0M Series B	—	Eclipse Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Predictive VC, Renegade Partners, Serena Ventures, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Zeal Capital Partners, Alex Rigopulos, Gregory Waldorf, Lionel Richie, Ollen Douglass
Apr 1, 2022	Hedge Labs	$4.0M Seed	—	Bling Capital, Khosla Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Pantera Capital, Patron, Resonado, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Gopi Kallayil, Rikard Steiber, Ryan Spoon, Thomas Vu
Mar 1, 2022	Karlsgate	$4.0M Seed	—	Bioluminescence Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Predictive VC, Serena Ventures, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Zeal Capital Partners, Gregory Waldorf
Feb 1, 2022	Homebound	$75.0M Series C	—	Bling Capital, CapitalG, Fifth Wall, Footprint Coalition, Forerunner Ventures, Greylock, Khosla Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Presight Capital, RSE Ventures, Sound Ventures, Vayner RSE, Alison Engel, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Gopi Kallayil, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hadi Partovi, Jeffrey Wilke, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Rikard Steiber, Scott Tannen
Feb 1, 2022	Dewpoint Therapeutics	$150.0M Series C	—	Andreessen Horowitz, ARCH Venture Partners, Blue Horizon, John Hamer, Next Play Ventures, Polaris Partners, Predictive VC, Serena Ventures, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Zeal Capital Partners, Gregory Waldorf, Ollen Douglass
Jan 1, 2022	Agtonomy	$5.0M Seed	—	2150, Cultivation Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, Draper Associates, Far Out Ventures, Feenix Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ganas Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Grit Ventures, Gutbrain Ventures, GV, iSelect Fund, MaC Venture Capital, Mercury Fund, Momenta Ventures, Monta Vista Capital, OurCrowd, Prelude Ventures, The Community Fund, Toyota Ventures, Ultratech Capital Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Jim Schneider, Keith Masback, Kyle York, Noah Pickholtz
Jan 1, 2022	Esusu	$130.0M Series B	—	Kevin Hartz, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bling Capital, Bond, Dell Technologies Capital, Fenway Summer, Footprint Coalition, Shawn Modarresi, Khosla Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Predictive VC, Robot Ventures, Serena Ventures, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sound Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, WndrCo LLC, Zeal Capital Partners, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Eric Kriegstein, George Kurtz, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Gopi Kallayil, Gregory Waldorf, Jay Z, Jimmy Donaldson, Justin David Blau, Justin Timberlake, Ollen Douglass, Rikard Steiber, Robert Vis, Ron Pragides, Ryan Reynolds, Stewart Butterfield, Tobias Lutke, Tonio DeSorrento, Trevor Noah
Dec 1, 2021	GoodTrust	$5.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, Adverb Ventures, Afore Capital, Alumni Ventures, Animo Ventures, Atomico, Backend Capital, Balderton Capital, Basecamp Fund, Bling Capital, Broadway Angels, Cherubic Ventures, Entrée Capital Ventures, Flucas Ventures, Freestyle Capital, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Haystack, Impact VC, Infinite Niches, Jay, Khosla Ventures, LGF, Madrona Ventures, Mouro Capital, Moxxie Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Pareto Holdings, Partech Ventures, Prototype Capital, PS Investments, Renegade Partners, Root Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Shrug Capital, SignalFire, Silicon Valley Connect, Sound Ventures, SV Angel, Tusk Venture Partners, Rick Lewis, Weekend Fund, Alper Kiresepi, Anna Patterson, Aston Motes, Baron Davis, Bradley Horowitz, Christian Reber, Emil Michael, Gokul Rajaram, Howard Charney, Jeff Seibert, Kevin Weil, Moshe Lifschitz, Peter Hunn, Rudra Peram, Sahin Boydas, Shlomo Kramer, Steve Chen, Tyler Willis, Wayne Chang, Yagiz Sozmen, Zach Segal
Nov 1, 2021	Overstory	$4.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Alt Capital, Antler, Autopilot Fund, Autotech Ventures, Bling Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Castle Island Ventures, Champion Hill Labs, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Convective Capital, Data Point Capital, FPV Fund, Mathias Schilling, Human Capital, Humba Ventures, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Khosla Ventures, Lakehouse Ventures, Matrix, Moxxie Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Wild Ventures, Alexandre Scialom, Arjan Dijk, Ben Tossell, Bobby Lo, Brandon Goldman, Francis Pedraza, Gopi Kallayil, Jeff Seibert, Jonathan Swanson, Mark Cuban, Rikard Steiber, Tikhon Bernstam, Vivek Garipalli, Wayne Chang
Oct 1, 2021	Neta	$5.0M Seed	—	Atomico, Balderton Capital, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Picus Capital, Alex Anton
Oct 1, 2021	Hex Technologies	$16.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, 11k Ventures, 8VC, Afore Capital, AirAngels, Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund, Amplify Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Anorak Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Champion Hill Labs, Cornerstone Venture Partners, E1 Ventures, Elron Ventures, Essence VC, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Marlinspike, Next Play Ventures, Operator Collective, Outliers Fund, Predictive VC, Rabben Hood Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Serena Ventures, Sinai Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Theory Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Zeal Capital Partners, Adam Gross, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Charles Zedlewski, Eric Wu, Fanny Surjana, Gregory Waldorf, James Beshara, John Riccitiello, Mattia Astori, Mircea Pasoi, Ollen Douglass, Richard Cooperstein, Scott Belsky, Stephen Romanoff, Thomas Tull, William Miller
Oct 1, 2021	Suma Wealth	$2.0M Seed	—	2045 ventures, AAF Management Ltd., Altalurra Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Backstage Capital, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Chingona Ventures, Debut Capital, Elefund, Engineering Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, gener8tor, Heavybit, Initialized Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, KRM Interests LLC, Liquid 2 Ventures, Listen, M13, Monochrome Capital, OCA Ventures, OMERS Ventures, OVO Fund, Precursor Ventures, Supply Change Capital, Techstars, Third Point Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Village Global, Vitalize Venture Group, Zeal Capital Partners, Christopher Langford, John Ives, Louis Beryl, Mark Ghermezian, Randy Garg
Aug 1, 2021	CoachHub	$80.0M Series B	—	Amino Collective, Antler, Atomico, Balderton Capital, Bright Pixel Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Embedded Capital, HV Capital, Molten Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Presight Capital, RTP Global, VR Ventures, Ali Kutay, Charlie Songhurst, Hanno Renner, Jonas Rieke, Michael Wax, Sylwester Janik
Jul 1, 2021	Esusu	$11.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, Accel, Adapt Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Authentic Ventures, Bling Capital, Bond, BoxGroup, Browder Capital, Capital Factory, CapitalX, Fenway Summer, Fifth Wall, Footprint Coalition, Foundation Capital, Infinite Niches, Shawn Modarresi, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Khosla Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Next Play Ventures, NextView Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Offline Ventures, Paradox Capital, Pareto Holdings, Predictive VC, Redpoint Ventures, Robot Ventures, Serena Ventures, Sound Ventures, SRB Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Uncork Capital, Winklevoss Capital, WndrCo LLC, Zeal Capital Partners, Adam Guild, Arjan Dijk, Bobby Lo, Cory Levy, Eric Kriegstein, George Kurtz, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Gopi Kallayil, Jay Z, Jimmy Donaldson, Justin David Blau, Justin Timberlake, Priyank Chandra, Quinn Slack, Rich Miner, Rikard Steiber, Robert Vis, Ron Pragides, Ryan Reynolds, Scot Wingo, Stewart Butterfield, Tobias Lutke, Tonio DeSorrento, Trevor Noah
Jun 1, 2021	TestGorilla	$10.0M Seed	—	Accel, AirAngels, Alt Capital, AngelList Syndicator, Army Venture Capital Corp., Atomico, Benchmark, Blisce, Crosslink Capital, Feenix Ventures, Felix Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, For Good Ventures, Ganas Ventures, Christian Miele, Lakestar, MaC Venture Capital, Next Play Ventures, Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Possible Ventures, Rackhouse Venture Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spero Ventures, The Community Fund, Turtle Ventures, Vayner RSE, Vista Venture Partners, Andy Chung, Bob Lee, Curtis Chambers, Emmanuel Seuge, Jacob Chapman, Jim Schneider, Khaled Helioui, Mato Peric, Michael Staton, Sameer Bhalla, Scott Belsky, Sean Behr
May 1, 2021	Shappi	$1.0M Seed	—	Feenix Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ganas Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, The Community Fund, Jim Schneider

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Leadership Team

Key people at Concrete Rose Capital.

Leadership Team

Key people at Concrete Rose Capital.

Deep Dive

Concrete Rose Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 that primarily invests in companies led by underrepresented founders and those serving underrepresented consumers, with a mission to address the racial wealth gap. The firm focuses on sectors such as financial inclusion, productivity software, sustainability, predictive health, and direct-to-learner EdTech. Beyond capital, Concrete Rose Capital provides portfolio companies with access to a curated network of senior operators, investors, and public figures committed to diversity and inclusion, and allocates 50% of its carry to a community foundation supporting nonprofits that close opportunity gaps for underrepresented talent in the U.S.[1][3]

The firm typically invests in early-stage rounds including pre-seed, seed, and Series A, targeting companies that have demonstrated product-market fit and are poised for scaling. Its investment philosophy centers on financial and social capital deployment to ventures led by founders of color or those committed to building inclusive cultures and diverse teams. Concrete Rose Capital’s impact on the startup ecosystem includes fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion while supporting innovation in sectors critical to underrepresented communities.[1][2][3]

Concrete Rose Capital was founded in 2019 with a clear focus on racial equity in venture investing. The firm’s key partners have built a platform that not only provides capital but also operational support and community engagement. Over time, the firm has evolved to deepen its commitment to social impact by dedicating half of its profits to the Concrete Rose Community Foundation, which funds nonprofits addressing opportunity gaps for underrepresented talent. This dual focus on financial returns and social impact distinguishes its evolution and ongoing strategy.[1][3][6]

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines financial investment with social impact by allocating 50% of carry to a community foundation supporting underrepresented talent.[1][3]
Network Strength: Provides portfolio companies access to a curated network of senior operators, investors, and public figures focused on diversity and inclusion.[1][3]
Track Record: Over 35 investments since inception, focusing on early-stage companies with demonstrated product-market fit.[1]
Operating Support: Offers hands-on support to help companies scale while fostering inclusive cultures and diverse teams.[1][3]

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Concrete Rose Capital rides the growing trend of impact-driven venture capital that prioritizes racial equity and inclusion in tech. The timing is critical as there is increasing recognition of the racial wealth gap and underrepresentation in startup ecosystems. Market forces such as heightened social awareness, demand for diverse products and services, and institutional commitments to DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) create a favorable environment for Concrete Rose’s investment thesis. By supporting underrepresented founders and consumers, the firm helps diversify innovation pipelines and influence the broader ecosystem toward equity and inclusion.[1][3][6]

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Concrete Rose Capital is poised to deepen its influence by scaling its portfolio and expanding its community foundation’s impact. Trends such as increased institutional focus on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing and growing consumer demand for inclusive products will shape its journey. The firm’s dual commitment to financial returns and social impact positions it to be a leading force in transforming venture capital into a more equitable and inclusive industry. Its continued success will likely inspire more capital flows toward underrepresented founders and foster systemic change in the tech ecosystem.[1][3][6]

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Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines financial investment with social impact by allocating 50% of carry to a community foundation supporting underrepresented talent.[1][3]
Network Strength: Provides portfolio companies access to a curated network of senior operators, investors, and public figures focused on diversity and inclusion.[1][3]
Track Record: Over 35 investments since inception, focusing on early-stage companies with demonstrated product-market fit.[1]
Operating Support: Offers hands-on support to help companies scale while fostering inclusive cultures and diverse teams.[1][3]