Today's venture backed companies are staying private longer, growing larger, and raising more capital prior to a liquidity event than ever before. As a consequence, we are able to discover and pursue attractive opportunities by investing in growth-stage companies 2-3 years prior to their anticipated IPO or acquisition.
next-generation venture capital firm
Step Ahead Capital
Today's venture backed companies are staying private longer, growing larger, and raising more capital prior to a liquidity event than ever before. As a consequence, we are able to discover and pursue attractive opportunities by investing in growth-stage companies 2-3 years prior to their anticipated IPO or acquisition.
next-generation venture capital firm
Step Ahead Capital
Step
Ahead Capital
Ahead Capital
next-generation
venture capital firm
venture capital firm
Strategy
Megatrends
Primary and Secondary
Every epoch has its megatrends — technological and socioeconomic tail winds powering innovation. We seek to bet on these trends at their sweet spot: right after initial validation but several years prior to them becoming mainstream.
We currently focus on fintech, digital assets infrastructure, machine learning tools and no-code solutions.
We currently focus on fintech, digital assets infrastructure, machine learning tools and no-code solutions.
Longer average timeline to go public resulted in an unprecedented demand for growth capital by the "unicorns". It also created the need for alternative liquidity solutions for their investors and employees.
We professionally execute both primary and secondary investments in fast-growing companies as long as we find their valuations attractive.
We professionally execute both primary and secondary investments in fast-growing companies as long as we find their valuations attractive.
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Investment Team
Our team combines technology, academic and capital markets expertise together with decades-long experience of venture capital in Silicon Valley.
General Partner
General Partner
Venture Advisor
Capital Markets Advisor
Investments
Bitso is a leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America based in Mexico.
Carta is an ownership management platform helping companies, investors, and employees manage their cap tables, investments, and equity plans.
Chainalysis is a blockchain forensics company offering data, services, and research to government agencies and financial institutions.
Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings spreadsheets, presentations, apps, and documents together
GitLab is an open-source software code collaboration platform, which enables developers to create, review, and deploy codebases.
GrubMarket is a farm-to-table food delivery service offering a variety of organic and locally-sourced food and produce.
Hive is the provider of cloud-based enterprise AI solutions to power the next wave of intelligent automation.
OneWeb is a social engagement platform that builds online communities around digital content.
Protocol Labs is the company behind FileCoin, a blockchain protocol for decentralized file sharing.
Robinhood is a mobile-first broker offering commission-free trading of stocks, options, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrency
ThoughtSpot offers business-intelligence software for enterprises to easily explore, analyze and share real-time business insights
* Includes investments made by general partners prior to Step Ahead Capital
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