Montauk Ventures

ActiveVenture Capital

Updated: Dec 5, 2025 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Feb 1, 2025	Adaptive insurance	$5.0M Seed	—	Seraphim Space
Oct 1, 2024	FullyRamped	$2.0M Seed	—	BoxGroup, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
May 1, 2024	The Lumber Manufactory	$4.0M Seed	—	Banter Capital, Comcast Ventures, DN Capital, Embedded Ventures, Foundry Group, Gutter Capital, High Alpha, Humba Ventures, Hyperplane, Initial Capital, LightShed Ventures, London Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, MMC Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Polychain Capital, Ravelin Capital, REMUS Capital, Slow Ventures, Smash Capital, Touchdown Ventures, Baron Davis, Dan Springer, Frank Sagnier, Griffin Johnson, Jeff Crusey, Keith Masback, Marc Benioff, Paul Heydon, Rich Riley, Rob Meyerson, Scott Banister
Apr 1, 2024	Precip	$500K Seed	—	BoxGroup, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
Mar 1, 2024	Defense Unicorns	$35.0M Series A	—	BoxGroup, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, TCG (The Chernin Group), Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Matt Garratt, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
Jan 1, 2024	Mesh	$7.0M Venture Round	—	Citi Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Oak HC/FT
Nov 1, 2023	Bikky	$8.0M Series A	—	Amazon Alexa Fund, Dream Machine, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Equal Ventures, Fika Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Gutter Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Mayfield, Moderne Ventures, NextView Ventures, Rainfall Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SOSV, Version One Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles Huang, Emmett Shear, Ilia Papas, Tikhon Bernstam, Wiley Cerilli
Jun 1, 2023	Danti	$3.0M Seed	—	Embedded Ventures, Humba Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Ravelin Capital, Alex Lieberman, Arie Abecassis, Jeff Crusey, Keith Masback
May 1, 2023	Evil Genius Games	$2.0M Seed	—	8VC, Alkeon Capital, Ambridge Capital, Audrey Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, BoxOne Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Casa Verde Capital, Comal Ventures, Matt Ocko, Earl Grey Capital, Endeavor Venture Funds, FirstHand Alliance, Goat Capital, GSV Ventures, Hustle Fund, Jazz Venture Partners, LAUNCH, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Maven Ventures, NEO, Pareto Holdings, Pario Ventures, Preston-Werner Ventures, Runa Capital, Shaan's All Access Fund, Summit Partners, Wealthing VC Club, Aaron King, Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social), Adam Michalski, Anne Wojcicki, Bill Tai, Chris Fanini, Emmett Shear, George Morrison, Immad Akhund, Jason Hunt, Jay Jamison, Kyle Vogt, Mathieu Guerville, Mikhail Seregine, Oleg Rogynskyy, Ted Serbinski, Troy Carter, Vikas Gupta, Viral Bajaria, Vishal Rao
Jan 1, 2023	Broadcast	$2.0M Seed	—	AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, Blackbird Ventures Australia, Broadway Angels, Cool Climate Collective, Craft Ventures, DFJ, Elephant Partners, Essence VC, Victor Noguera, Felicis Ventures, Flex Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ganas Ventures, LGF, Oak HC/FT, Octopus Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pioneer Square Labs, Polymath Capital Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Prototype Capital, Red Beard Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Shasta Ventures, SRB Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Trajectory Ventures, Tribe Capital, Vibe Capital, XYZ Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Alex Pattis, Andrew Gazdecki, Ashish Agrawal, Ben Lang, Ben Tossell, Bill Gates, Casey Neistat, Daniel Pourasghar, David Peterson, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Gina Bianchini, Julia DeWahl, Julian Shapiro, Kunal Shah, Mathilde Collin, Mike Vernal, Neil Parikh, Nkechi Iregbulem, Peter Beck, Peter Kazanjy, Richard Laxer, Sahin Boydas, Sam Corcos, Sri Batchu, Zachary Sims
Jan 1, 2023	Mesh	$4.0M Seed	—	BoxGroup, Browder Capital, CapitalX, Citi Ventures, Aniq Kassam, Mana Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Not Boring Capital, Oak HC/FT, Pareto Holdings, Seven Seven Six, Trajectory Ventures, Vibe Capital, XFactor Ventures, Adam Guild, Adrian Aoun, Anthony Pompliano, Balaji Srinivasan, Cory Levy, Matteo Franceschetti, Shane Curran
Sep 1, 2022	Redesign Health	$65.0M Series C	—	BoxGroup, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
Sep 1, 2022	beehiiv	$2.6M Seed	Social Leverage	Alex Lieberman, Howard Lindzon, Magma Partners, Paul Rabil, Shaan's All Access Fund, Vibe Capital, ALLVP, Alpha4 ventures, Ardent Venture Partners, Babel Ventures, Better Capital, Caffeinated Capital, Comal Ventures, Creative Juice, DuContra Ventures, Homebrew, Hyper, Nexus Venture Partners, NFX, One Way Ventures, Operator Collective, Portage Ventures, Rebel Fund, Round One Capital, SRB Ventures, Stripe, Allen Gannett, Arie Abecassis, Jon Hallett, Julian Shapiro, Karim Atiyeh, Ron Pragides, Sam Parr, Sri Batchu
Sep 1, 2022	Grow Therapy	$45.0M Series B	—	Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Invariantes Fund, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky
Aug 1, 2022	CreatorDAO	$20.0M Seed	—	2048 Ventures, AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ, Elephant Partners, Lazerow Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Primary Venture Partners, SRB Ventures, Stellar Capital, Techstars, Y Combinator, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Gautam Gupta, Julian Shapiro, Neil Parikh, Richard Laxer, Sri Batchu
May 1, 2022	HowGood	$13.0M Series B	—	Astia, BoxGroup, Broadway Angels, Cleo Capital, Contour Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Hustle Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Inspired Capital, Rethink Impact, SciFi VC, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, The Perkins Fund, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Ulu Ventures, Vine Ventures LP, Y Combinator, Ann Berry, Fanny Surjana, Karim Atiyeh, Scott Belsky, Venus Williams
May 1, 2022	Coinshift	$15.0M Series A	—	AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Blockchain Founders Fund, Chapter One Ventures, DFJ, Dream Machine, Electric Ant, Elephant Partners, First Round Capital, Index Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Lightspeed India Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, NFX, Not Boring Capital, Oak HC/FT, Primary Venture Partners, RET Ventures, Rubicon VC, Seven Seven Six, Shaan's All Access Fund, Silicon Valley Connect, SRB Ventures, The Hit Forge, Tiger Global Management, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Weekend Fund, WorkLife Ventures, Adar Zango, Alex Adelman, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Jeff Morris, Julian Shapiro, Neil Parikh, Nick Caldwell, Reggie James, Richard Laxer, Ron Pragides, Sri Batchu, Trevor McFedries
May 1, 2022	Mosyle	$200.0M Series B	—	AirAngels, Album VC, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ, Elephant Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Oak HC/FT, Primary Venture Partners, SRB Ventures, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Jack Boren, Julian Shapiro, Neil Parikh, Richard Laxer, Sri Batchu
Apr 1, 2022	Earth	$10.0M Seed	—	20VC, Accomplice VC, AirAngels, Alkeon Capital, Alpine Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Banana Capital, Adeyemi Ajao, Browder Capital, Contrary Capital, Daffy, DCM, DFJ, DNX Ventures, Elephant Partners, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, FJ Labs, Flucas Ventures, FTX Ventures, Gaingels, Geek Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Gutter Capital, Huobi Ventures, Indeed.com, iNovia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Oak HC/FT, Operator Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Patron, Primary Venture Partners, QED Investors, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Shrug Capital, SRB Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, T-Bird Capital, Tet Ventures, The Hit Forge, Trajectory Ventures, Weekend Fund, Abe Burns, Adrian Aoun, Balaji Srinivasan, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Gokul Rajaram, Harry Hurst, Jeremy Cai, Julian Shapiro, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Konstantin von Unger, Manik Gupta, Michael Stoppelman, Neil Parikh, Richard Laxer, Sri Batchu, Tom Blomfield, Tony Xu, Wayne Ting, Zachary Rapp
Apr 1, 2022	Kindred	$8.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, 20VC, AAF Management Ltd., AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Arrive, Atlantic Bridge University Fund, Backed VC, Basecamp Fund, Bennu, Brainchild, Browder Capital, Climate Capital, CrunchFund, DFJ, Elephant Partners, Flex Capital, Founder Collective, Gigascale Capital, Greylock, Horizon 3 Venture Studio, Hyper, Incisive Ventures, Kindred Ventures, KW Angel Fund, LAUNCH, Long Journey Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Offline Ventures, Operator Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Square Labs, Primary Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital, Shrug Capital, Silicon Ventures, SRB Ventures, Supernode Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, VZVC, Wave Capital, What If Ventures, Yes VC, Aaron Levie, Amy Chang, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Brendan O'Driscoll, Curtis Lee, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Elliot Shmukler, Eric Wei, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Gina Bianchini, Gokul Rajaram, Harris Barton, Harry Hurst, Hunter Horsley, James Beshara, Jeremy Cai, Joshua Reeves, Julian Shapiro, Louis Beryl, Mario Gabriele, Mark Pincus, Matias Woloski, Matteo Franceschetti, Matthew Dellavedova, Moshe Lifschitz, Neil Parikh, Richard Laxer, Scott Banister, Scott Kleper, Sri Batchu, Tom Blomfield
Apr 1, 2022	Wavy	$2.0M Seed	—	Bombas, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Laconia Capital Group, Y Combinator, Ian Schafer
Apr 1, 2022	Proxymity	$15.0M Series B	—	Citi Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Oak HC/FT, Sahin Boydas
Mar 1, 2022	Proxymity	$6.0M Series B	—	Citi Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Oak HC/FT, Sahin Boydas
Mar 1, 2022	Yuga Labs	$450.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Accel, Ambridge Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Audrey Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Casa Verde Capital, Comal Ventures, Defy Partners, Dragonfly Capital Partners, GAMEGROOVE Capital, Geek Ventures, Goat Capital, Grasshopper Capital, Jazz Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, NEO, Jonathan Golden, Next Frontier Capital, NextView Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Preston-Werner Ventures, Presto Ventures, Primitive Ventures, REMUS Capital, Robot Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, Spring Capital, Sunset Ventures, Talis Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, Spencer Noon, Wealthing VC Club, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Ameet Patel, Anastasia Andrianova, Anne Wojcicki, Artur Sychov, Biz Stone, Brian Corrigan, Emil Lee, Gautam Shah, George Morrison, Hubert Thieblot, Jared Leto, John M. Mueller, Kaarel Kotkas, Kevin Hart, Kevin Lin, Mathieu Guerville, Peter Vesterbacka, Riccardo Zacconi, Sahin Boydas, Sebastian Knutsson, Sebastien Borget, Steve Chen, Troy Carter, Varsha Rao
Feb 1, 2022	Bark Social	$2.0M Seed	—	Citi Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Oak HC/FT, Pareto Holdings, Alex Lieberman, Sahin Boydas

Financial History

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Leadership Team

Key people at Montauk Ventures.

Philip Krim

Managing Partner

Leadership Team

Key people at Montauk Ventures.

Philip Krim

Managing Partner

Deep Dive

Montauk Ventures is a generalist investment firm based in New York, founded in 2023, that focuses on partnering with bold founders and investing primarily in hypergrowth-stage companies across the US and Canada[1][2][3][4]. Their mission centers on backing visionary entrepreneurs eager to change the world, with a broad investment philosophy that does not limit itself to specific sectors but targets companies demonstrating rapid growth potential[1][3][4]. By supporting hypergrowth-stage firms, Montauk Ventures plays a significant role in accelerating startups poised for scale, thereby impacting the startup ecosystem by fueling innovation and expansion at critical growth phases.

The firm was founded by Philip Krim (Managing Partner), Evan Caron (Co-Founder & CIO), Kirk Hourdajian (Partner, Head of Ventures), and Sharo Atmeh (Co-Founder & COO), all based in New York[4]. Since its inception in 2023, Montauk Ventures has evolved with a focus on hypergrowth companies, leveraging the founders' diverse expertise to identify and support high-potential ventures. This origin story highlights a relatively recent but ambitious entry into the private equity and venture capital space, emphasizing growth-stage investments.

Core Differentiators

Generalist Investment Model: Montauk Ventures does not restrict itself to a single sector, allowing flexibility to invest across various industries[1][4].
Focus on Hypergrowth Stage: Specializes in companies that have moved beyond early-stage and are scaling rapidly, which requires distinct expertise and capital deployment strategies[3][4].
Experienced Leadership Team: Founders and partners bring a mix of operational and investment experience, enhancing their ability to support portfolio companies effectively[4].
Geographic Focus: Concentrated on US and Canadian markets, enabling deep regional knowledge and network leverage[1].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Montauk Ventures is positioned to capitalize on the growing trend of hypergrowth companies that demand significant capital and strategic support to scale efficiently. The timing is favorable given the increasing number of startups reaching scale phases requiring specialized investment beyond seed or early rounds. Market forces such as technological innovation, digital transformation, and expanding global markets create a fertile environment for Montauk Ventures to influence the ecosystem by enabling companies to accelerate growth trajectories and compete globally.

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Montauk Ventures is likely to deepen its footprint in the hypergrowth investment space, potentially expanding its sector focus as it matures. Trends such as AI, fintech, healthtech, and climate tech could shape their portfolio evolution given their broad investment mandate. Their influence may grow as they build a track record of successful exits and operational support, positioning them as a key partner for scaling startups in North America. This trajectory aligns with their founding vision of partnering with bold founders eager to change the world, reinforcing their role as catalysts in the startup ecosystem.

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Core Differentiators

Generalist Investment Model: Montauk Ventures does not restrict itself to a single sector, allowing flexibility to invest across various industries[1][4].
Focus on Hypergrowth Stage: Specializes in companies that have moved beyond early-stage and are scaling rapidly, which requires distinct expertise and capital deployment strategies[3][4].
Experienced Leadership Team: Founders and partners bring a mix of operational and investment experience, enhancing their ability to support portfolio companies effectively[4].
Geographic Focus: Concentrated on US and Canadian markets, enabling deep regional knowledge and network leverage[1].