Interlace Ventures

Interlace Ventures is an early stage fund investing in founders reimagining commerce.

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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)
Mar 1, 2025	DeCharge Network	$3.0M Seed	—	Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Pantera Capital, Ethan Beard, Leore Avidar
Dec 1, 2024	Metreecs	$500K Seed	—	Fontinalis Partners, Long Journey Ventures, Moving Capital, Wind Ventures, Y Combinator, Colin Carrier, Emil Michael, Josh Mohrer, Mark Pincus, Steve Aoki, Ted Serbinski
Sep 1, 2024	Palmier	$500K Seed	—	Immeasurable, Scale Asia Ventures, Y Combinator, Giovanni Gardelli, Preetha Parthasarathy
Dec 1, 2023	Ampersand	$12.0M Series A	—	Awesome People Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity, Tribe Capital, Arash Ferdowsi, Howie Liu
Oct 1, 2023	Cube Exchange	$9.0M Seed	—	Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Pantera Capital, Ethan Beard, Leore Avidar
Jun 1, 2023	Browse AI	$3.0M Seed	—	Abstract Ventures, ADB Ventures, Alpine Ventures, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelPad, Audrey Capital, Awesome People Ventures, Balderton Capital, Banana Capital, Cherry Ventures, Concept Ventures, Craft Ventures, Cultivation Capital, Ecosystem Integrity, EQT Ventures, Goodwater Capital, LGF, Matrix, Merus Capital, MYASIAVC PTE LTD, Openview Venture Partners, OTB Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Tribe Capital, V3 Ventures, Vsquared Ventures, Akshay Chaturvedi, Akshay Kothari, Christian Reber, Cristina Cordova, Eric Wu, Howie Liu, James Beshara, Jon Brelig, Julia DeWahl, Khaled Helioui, Kunal Shah, Melissa Tan, Mike Hennessey, Niklas Jansen, Saran Chari, Zack Kanter
May 1, 2023	8Flow	$7.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, C2 Investment, Caffeinated Capital, Coatue, Ecosystem Integrity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Operator Collective, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Howie Liu
Apr 1, 2023	Ampersand	$5.0M Seed	—	Adjacent, Amplify Partners, Array Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Bond, C2 Investment, Compound, Ecosystem Integrity, Felicis Ventures, Human Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Predictive VC, Red Swan Ventures, Swift Ventures, Tribe Capital, Adam Gries, Amjad Masad, Arash Ferdowsi, Bobby Goodlatte, Howie Liu, Jonathan Wegener, Karim Atiyeh, Lisha Li, Lukas Biewald, Moshe Lifschitz, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas
Mar 1, 2023	Fount	$12.0M Series A	—	Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greylock, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Not Boring Capital, Pantera Capital, Ethan Beard, Leore Avidar
Feb 1, 2023	Vital Interaction	$5.0M Series A	—	Alt Capital, Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Browder Capital, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Founders Fund, Freestyle Capital, FTX Ventures, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Meritech Capital Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Pantera Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Saga, Summit Partners, TCV, The Hit Forge, Christina Cacioppo, Dharmesh Shah, Dylan Field, Ethan Beard, Fidji Simo, Immad Akhund, Jason Lemkin, Jonathan Neman, Joshua Reeves, Julian Shapiro, Justin Mateen, Leore Avidar, Max Mullen, Parker Conrad, Scott Belsky, Sean Rad, Siqi Chen
Jan 1, 2023	Zurp	$5.0M Seed	—	10X Capital, 20VC, 7GC & Co, 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, 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
Oct 1, 2022	CausalTwin	$38K Seed	—	—
Oct 1, 2022	Mother Science	$6.0M Seed	—	Accomplice, Amazon Alexa Fund, Female Founders Fund, Gutter Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Long Journey Ventures, Primetime Partners, StartHer, Anne Wojcicki, Arash Ferdowsi, Kyle Vogt, Trevor McFedries, Whitney Wolfe Herd
Oct 1, 2022	Trelent	$900K Seed	—	Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Pantera Capital, Ethan Beard, Leore Avidar
Sep 1, 2022	Kits.AI	$5.0M Seed	—	Amity Ventures, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Rexhep Dollaku, BITKRAFT Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Casa Verde Capital, Color Capital, Darling Ventures, Freestyle Capital, K2 Global, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Khosla Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, MATR Ventures, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, SciFi VC, Sound Ventures, Thomas Pentz, Tribe Capital, XFactor Ventures, Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Akash Garg, Balaji Srinivasan, Ethan Beard, Gee Roberson, Gwyneth Paltrow, James Corden, Justin David Blau, Leore Avidar, Marc Benioff, Paul George, Ryan Tedder, Scott Banister, Shayne Coplan
Jul 1, 2022	Arkive	$10.0M Seed	—	9Yards Capital, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Alchemy Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Ambush Capital, Amity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Asymmetric, Awesome People Ventures, Batalion Capital, Bling Capital, Broadstone, Capital Factory, Color Capital, Craft Ventures, Darling Ventures, Elefund, Ensemble VC, FirstMark Capital, Form Capital, Founders Fund, FPV Fund, Freestyle Capital, Haun Ventures, HawksHead Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Innovent Capital Group, Jigsaw VC, K9 Ventures, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Lam Research Capital, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Multicoin Capital, Ann Bordetsky, Not Boring Capital, Ben Huh, Otherwise Fund, Pantera Capital, Paradigm, Patron, Pharos Capital Group, Redpoint Ventures, Robot Ventures, Scalar Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Sentiero Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sinai Ventures, Skyriver Ventures, Sound Ventures, Spero Ventures, SRB Ventures, Susa Ventures, The Hit Forge, Timespan Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tribe Capital, TSVC Capital, Union Square Ventures, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Anthony Pompliano, Balaji Srinivasan, Bobby Goodlatte, Brad Holden, Chris Kurdziel, Courtney Guertin, Ethan Beard, Fernando Martinelli, Furqan Rydhan, Itamar Lesuisse, James Beshara, JD Ross, Jeffrey Lee, Jess Sloss, Joe Stump, Julian Shapiro, Leore Avidar, Louis Beryl, Matteo Franceschetti, Michael Dunworth, Narendra Rocherolle, Paul Stamatiou, Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Russell Cook, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Shishir Mehrotra, Stani Kulechov, Stewart Butterfield, Tegan Kline, Todd Corenson, Vivek Garipalli, William Boebel
Jun 1, 2022	Arch Data, Inc (fka Meltano)	$8.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Cantos Ventures, DCM, Ali Tamaseb, Immeasurable, Innovation Endeavors, Invariantes Fund, Prime Movers Lab, Scale Asia Ventures, Third Point Ventures, Venrock, Y Combinator, Giovanni Gardelli, Preetha Parthasarathy
Jun 1, 2022	Promoted.ai	$6.0M Seed	—	Immeasurable, Scale Asia Ventures, Y Combinator, Giovanni Gardelli, Preetha Parthasarathy
Mar 1, 2022	Glassette	$2.0M Seed	—	Accomplice, Gutter Capital, Long Journey Ventures, StartHer, Guy Hands, Trevor McFedries, Whitney Wolfe Herd
Feb 1, 2022	DIMO	$9.0M Seed	—	Accomplice, Alumni Ventures, Amasia, Asymmetric, Early Light Ventures, Gutter Capital, Hashed, Jetstream, Long Journey Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Pareto Holdings, PICO Venture Partners, StartHer, White Star Capital, Greg Isenberg, Julien Smith, Kiran Bhatraju, Rick Wagoner, Trevor McFedries, Whitney Wolfe Herd
Jan 1, 2022	Throne.com	$830K Seed	—	Davidovs VC, Founders Fund, Immeasurable, Indicator Ventures, Pareto Holdings, David and Daniil Liberman, Justin Mateen
Nov 1, 2021	Promoted.ai	$2.0M Seed	—	Immeasurable, Root Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, Y Combinator, Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Giovanni Gardelli, Preetha Parthasarathy
Jun 1, 2021	The Poken Company	$2.0M Seed	—	Carya Venture Partners, Gumi Cryptos Capital, #SecretFund, Guillaume Lestrade, Rand Hindi
May 1, 2021	Underdog Fantasy	$10.0M Series A	—	2xN, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Archetype, Bain Capital Crypto, Balderton Capital, Blisce, Bond, Bow Capital, Cadenza Capital Management, Caffeinated Capital, Chapter One Ventures, Coatue, Coelius Capital, CoinFund, Compound, Craft Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Delta Blockchain Fund, Dispersion Capital, Dreamers VC, Eclipse Ventures, Electric Capital, Felicis Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, foobar.vc, Formic Ventures, Founders Fund, Galaxy Digital, Golden Ventures, Graph Ventures, Griffin Gaming Partners, Helium-3 Ventures, IA Capital Group, LAUNCH, Lemnos Labs, Long Journey Ventures, Moving Capital, MS&AD Ventures, Night Capital, North Island Ventures, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Polychain Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Reform Ventures, Roosh Ventures, SNR, Sound Ventures, Stellar Capital, The Hit Forge, William Guo, Thirty Five Ventures, True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Valar Ventures, Wind Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Y Combinator, Yes VC, Adrien Miniatti, Alain Hanover, Andre Iguodala, Anthony Pompliano, Antoine Martin, Balaji Srinivasan, Bill Tai, Bryan Meehan, Charles Gorintin, Colin Carrier, Emil Michael, Fareed Mosavat, Greg Brockman, Immad Akhund, Jean Charles Samuelian, Jeff Morris, Jeff Seibert, Jehan Chu, John Fontein, Josh Mohrer, Kyle Vogt, Mark Pincus, Mathilde Collin, Matt Bellamy, Matt Brezina, Moaffak Ahmed, Nelson Chu, Nicolas Pinto, Rashaun Williams, Roger McNamee, Rolf Schrömgens, Ted Serbinski, Wayne Chang, William Hockey, William Mougayar, Yahya Mokhtarzada
Apr 1, 2021	Kinema	$2.0M Seed	—	1982 Ventures, 7BC Venture Capital, Accomplice, Altari Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Arthur Ventures, Big Sky Health, BoxGroup, Cathay Innovation, Cross Culture Ventures, Curie.Bio, Daffy, DNX Ventures, Dreamers VC, Equal Ventures, FINTOP Capital, First Round Capital, FJ Labs, Flucas Ventures, Franklin Templeton Investments, Geek Ventures, Generative Ventures, Gutter Capital, Illuminate Financial Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Jetstream, Kleiner Perkins, LightShed Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Marcy Venture Partners, Hans Tung, Operate, Operator Partners, Operator Ventures, Polaris Partners, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Roosh Ventures, Rubicon VC, Seven Seven Six, Shrug Capital, Social Leverage, Howard Lindzon, StartHer, T-Bird Capital, Jarrod Dicker, TCG (The Chernin Group), The Hit Forge, TQ Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, TTV Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, Vast Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Weekend Fund, WGI Group, Abe Burns, Amit Chu, Anthony Saleh, Avid Larizadeh, Chad Stender, Diego Berdakin, Edith Harbaugh, Frederic Kerrest, Gokul Rajaram, James Beshara, Joe Proto, Josh Abramowitz, Josh Elman, Kevin Lin, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Kiran Bhatraju, Manik Gupta, Mark Gillespie, Matt Mazzeo, Neil Parikh, Odell Beckham Jr., Ryan Carlson, Steve Martocci, Teddy Citrin, Tom McInerney, Trevor McFedries, Trevor Noah, Troy Carter, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Yan-David Erlich

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Leadership Team

Key people at Interlace Ventures.

Leadership Team

Key people at Interlace Ventures.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Interlace Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund founded in 2019, based in New York, that invests in founders who are reimagining commerce. Their mission centers on supporting startups innovating across the commerce value chain, particularly in sectors like e-commerce, fintech, consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail technology, and marketplaces. The fund typically invests in seed and early-stage rounds, with check sizes ranging from $100K to $10M, focusing on companies primarily in the United States. Interlace Ventures leverages a strong network connecting portfolio companies to enterprise brands and retailers, enhancing their growth potential and impact on the startup ecosystem by accelerating commerce innovation[1][2][3][5].

Origin Story

Interlace Ventures was established in 2019 by Joseph Sartre and Vincent Diallo in New York. Since its inception, the fund has concentrated on commerce infrastructure and technology startups, evolving to become a key player in early-stage investments within this niche. The fund has consistently participated in multiple investment rounds annually, often alongside other notable investors like TriplePoint Capital and Khosla Ventures. Their focus on commerce-related startups reflects a strategic response to the growing digital transformation in retail and consumer services[1][6].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focused exclusively on early-stage commerce startups, with investments spanning pre-seed to Series A rounds but typically not leading rounds.
Network Strength: Strong connections to enterprise brands and retailers, providing portfolio companies with valuable market access and partnership opportunities.
Track Record: Active investor with around 27 investments, primarily in U.S.-based startups, including notable portfolio companies like SelfMade.
Operating Support: Deep understanding of commerce infrastructure, enabling tailored support beyond capital, especially in navigating retail and marketplace ecosystems[1][3].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Interlace Ventures rides the wave of digital commerce transformation, a trend accelerated by shifts in consumer behavior and technology adoption. The timing is critical as commerce increasingly integrates with fintech, software, and marketplace innovations. Market forces such as the rise of direct-to-consumer brands, retail technology advancements, and evolving payment systems create fertile ground for startups in this space. By focusing on commerce infrastructure, Interlace Ventures influences the broader ecosystem by nurturing companies that redefine how goods and services are bought and sold, impacting supply chains, customer engagement, and payment solutions[2][3][5].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Interlace Ventures is poised to deepen its influence in the commerce technology sector by continuing to back founders who challenge traditional commerce models. Trends such as AI-driven personalization, embedded finance, and omnichannel retailing will likely shape their investment focus. Their ability to connect startups with large enterprise partners will remain a key advantage, potentially expanding their portfolio’s impact and driving innovation across the commerce landscape. As commerce continues to evolve rapidly, Interlace Ventures’ specialized approach positions them well to capitalize on emerging opportunities and shape the future of commerce[3][5].

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focused exclusively on early-stage commerce startups, with investments spanning pre-seed to Series A rounds but typically not leading rounds.
Network Strength: Strong connections to enterprise brands and retailers, providing portfolio companies with valuable market access and partnership opportunities.
Track Record: Active investor with around 27 investments, primarily in U.S.-based startups, including notable portfolio companies like SelfMade.
Operating Support: Deep understanding of commerce infrastructure, enabling tailored support beyond capital, especially in navigating retail and marketplace ecosystems[1][3].