FirstMark Capital
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Growth · 9 people tracked
Also known as FirstMark Capital A1 · FirstMark Capital J1 · FirstMark Capital OF · FirstMark Capital P2 · FirstMark Capital R1 · FirstMark Capital S1 · FirstMark Capital S2 · FIRSTMARK CAPITAL, LLC
Investment thesis
Patient, long-term, high-conviction, concentrated approach combined with a platform team delivering community, talent and functional support across engineering, data, product and go-to-market to thousands of operators.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 52 of 179 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×21SaaS ×19Enterprise Software ×17Data & Infrastructure ×8Consumer ×7E-commerce ×7Marketing Tech ×7Healthtech ×5
HQs:United States×55Canada×2Brazil×1United Kingdom×1Sweden×1
Investments · 179 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 22023 · 22022 · 12021 · 52020 · 22019 · 72017 · 12016 · 52015 · 937 dated
Airbnb is an online marketplace that enables people to book and list accommodations for short-term rentals, experiences, and services around the world.
ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US
Brian Chesky(Founder/CEO)inNathan Blecharczyk(Founder/CTO)inJoe Gebbia(Founder/CPO)inBelinda Johnson(Executive Officer)Laurence Tosi(Executive Officer)Nate Blecharczyk(Cofounder)
San Francisco, US
Evan Sharp(Executive Officer)Mike Yang(Executive Officer)Benjamin Silbermann(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Natalie Fair(Executive Officer)
BoardJeremy Levine(Director)Jeff Jordan(Director)
Shopify is a commerce platform that enables businesses to build online stores, sell across multiple channels (web, social, marketplace, POS), and manage inventory and orders.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaSOttawa, CA
John Phillips(Director)Amy Shapero(Executive Officer)Craig Miller(Executive Officer)Jeff Weiser(Executive Officer)Joseph Frasca(Executive Officer)Jeremy Levine(Director)
Dataiku runs programs that support local communities and provide data access and tooling for nonprofit and academic organizations, as part of its work in data science and AI.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Marc Batty(Director)Clement Stenac(Director)Daniel Sun(Executive Officer, Promoter)Florian Douetteau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMatt Turck(Director)Neeraj Agrawal(Director)
Omaze runs prize draws—such as its Million Pound House Draw for homes, supercars, and cash—where consumers buy entries for a chance to win while raising money for charities.
ConsumerImpact & Social GoodMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentLos Angeles, US
Matthew Pohlson(Executive Officer, Director)Penni Thow(Director)Nina Sen(Executive Officer)Richard Heitzmann(Director)Matt Pohlson(Co-Founder & CEO)
BoardWyc Grousbeck(Director)
Nextmv provides a decision automation and optimization platform for developers, delivering optimization and scheduling solutions for logistics, delivery, and similar operational challenges.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSPhiladelphia, US
Carolyn Mooney(Founder)inRyan O'Neil(Co-Founder + CTO)in
New York, US
Adeyanju Ademiluyi(Executive Officer, Director)Adunola Akanni(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTodd Cozzens(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $40M raise · filed Feb 2026
New York, US
David Roth(Director, Promoter)Steve Friedman(Director)Donn Rochette(Executive Officer, Promoter)Ronald Ranaldi(Executive Officer)Philip Moyer(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $2.5M raise · filed Feb 2015
Third-party financing platform for small merchants with minimal onboarding requirements
Baltimore, US
Gregory Wallace Lisiewski(President)Michael Lyden(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $12M raise · filed Jan 2017
Bluecore provides a combined customer data platform and experience orchestration solution for retailers and direct-to-consumer brands, incorporating predictive AI models and AI shopping agents to enable personalized, real-time customer engagement across channels.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechNew York City, US
Fayez Mohamood(Executive Officer, Director)Michelle McComb(Executive Officer)Mahmoud Arram(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardShivani Tejuja(Director)Justin LaFayette(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Mark Riggs(Executive Officer)Ralph Mack(Director)Syed Waqas Khurshid(Executive Officer)Matthew Wild(Executive Officer, Director)Neill Occhiogrosso(Director)Daniel Herman(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $11.2M raise · filed Aug 2015
New York, US
Emery Wells(Executive Officer, Director)Vasant Natarajan(Director)John Traver(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $50M raise · filed Nov 2019
HealthtechMinneapolis, US
Abir Sen(Director)Marek Ciolko(Executive Officer)Marlon Cush(Executive Officer)Dan Schabold(Executive Officer)Steve Wolin(Executive Officer, Director)Jill Prevost(Executive Officer, Promoter)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Philadelphia, US
Richard Nucci(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Mitchell J Stewart(Director, Promoter)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $2M raise · filed May 2016
Highbeam is a financial technology company (not a bank) offering banking services, credit, spend management, and AI agents that automate finance tasks like treasury, reporting, and scenario analysis.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceFintechNew York, US
Samir Shergill(Co-founder & CEO)Gautam Gupta(Co-founder)Rishi Garg(Director)
BoardJohn Gardner(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Clark Valberg(Executive Officer, Director)Ben Nadel(Executive Officer, Director)Lee Fixel(Director)
BoardVas Natarajan(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Brooklyn, US
Max Solomon Bennett(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kenny Teng(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amber Victoria Tunnell(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $7.6M raise · filed Jul 2022
Knewton Alta provides adaptive courseware for higher education that personalizes learning content and assessments based on real-time student performance data.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechNew York, US
David Liu(Executive Officer, Director)Jose Ferreira(Executive Officer, Director)Kevin Comolli(Director)
BoardHiro Tamura(Director)Rob Stavis(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Optimizely offers a digital experience platform that brings marketing and product teams together to create and optimize content and experiences across channels, with AI-assisted personalization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Doug Pepper(Director)Asif Rahman(Executive Officer)Shafqat Islam(Executive Officer, Director)Iraj Islam(Executive Officer, Director)Chris Ahearn(Director)Liron Gitig(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $42M raise · filed Sep 2015
Miami, US
Jenny Larios Berlin(Executive Officer)Sertac Karaman(Director)Ryan Chin(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Boston, US
ZACH DUNN(Executive Officer)BRIAN C MUSE(Director, Executive Officer)MEREDITH FLYNN-RIPLEY(Director)TIMOTHY KOMADA(Director)SAMUEL D DUNN(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $30M raise · filed Jul 2022
New York, US
Sumeet Jain(Director)Brent Chudoba(Director)Jeremy N. Friedman(Executive Officer, Director)Biswajit Sinha(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Boulder, US
Raphael Crawford-Marks(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $1.5M raise · filed Apr 2019
Starry Internet is an internet service provider offering broadband connectivity with transparent pricing, no long-term contracts, and same-day installation in select U.S. cities.
New York, US
Lee Fixel(Director)Joseph Lipowski(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Davies(Executive Officer)Chaitanya Kanojia(Executive Officer, Director)Kristen Thiede(Executive Officer)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
New York, US
Bora Celik(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $4.5M raise · filed Feb 2021
Connects with a worldwide network of suppliers, buyers, logistic providers and financial institutions
North Reading, US
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Cambridge, US
Sertac Karaman(Executive Officer, Director)Thomas Kenney(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJamie Goldstein(Director)Richard D. Clarke(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Long Island City, US
Alexander Reynolds(Executive Officer, Director)Richard Stefan Deeran(Director)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
Columbus, US
David Wardell(Director)Kyle Hency(Director)Matthew Gartland(Director)Jonathan Poma(Director)Corbett Morgan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D · $125M raise · filed Jan 2023
Idira is an identity security platform providing privileged access management (PAM), machine identity security, and governance for human, machine, and AI agent identities across enterprises.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWellesley, US
Board seatAmish Jani· per SEC Form D
ActionIQ is a composable customer data platform that has been acquired by Uniphore to support AI-driven customer experience orchestration across enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechNew York, US
DOUGLAS LEONE(Director)NITAY JOFFE(Executive Officer, Director)ANASTASIOS ARGYROS(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCARL SPARKS(Director)MARTIN CASADO(Director)MEREDITH FINN(Director)
Alaffia offers Autodor, an AI platform that pre-processes prior authorization requests for health plan utilization management teams by extracting clinical data, applying policy-based logic, and generating human-reviewed case summaries.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechInsurTech
TJ Ademiluyi(Cofounder)
Astronomer provides Astro, a platform for running Apache Airflow, the open-source data orchestration tool used by enterprises to manage AI, ML, and analytics pipelines at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Ry Walker(Founder)
Interactive 3D technology platform for visualizing and understanding the human body and health.
New York, US
Richard Fulop(Executive Officer, Director)Amish Jain(Director)
ClickHouse develops a column-oriented database management system that enables real-time analytical reporting via SQL queries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Aaron Katz(Co-Founder & CEO)Alexey Milovidov(Co-Founder & CTO)Yury Izrailevsky(Co-Founder & President)
Clickable automates marketing data collection and reporting for agencies and brands, integrating data from social, search, CRM, email, and marketing funnel tools to measure ROI and provide customized dashboards.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for enterprise applications that require high availability and global scalability.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 7
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioAirbnbNASDAQ: ABNBPinterestNYSE: PINSShopifyNASDAQ: SHOPStubHubNYSE: STUBUpworkNASDAQ: UPWKActioniqacq. by UniphoreFrame.ai Acquired by Hubspotacq. by HubSpot
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesGravie · pulse2.com · Aug 2, 2026
Events · thecorryjournal.com · Jul 30, 2026
Bluecore · techcrunch.com · Jul 21, 2026
Vercel · weetracker.com · Jul 17, 2026
Airbnb · barchart.com · Jul 17, 2026
Postmates · fortuneindia.com · Jul 17, 2026
Demandbase · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Shopify · simplywall.st · Jul 16, 2026
Public market activity · per SEC filings
what is this? ⓘDisclosed stake · filed Jul 2012
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27 insider ownership filings (Forms 3/4/5)
From the firm's own SEC EDGAR filings — stakes and insider roles in public companies, typically portfolio companies after an IPO. Not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does FirstMark Capital invest at?
- FirstMark Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is FirstMark Capital's typical check size?
- FirstMark Capital typically writes checks of $250K – $10M.
- What sectors does FirstMark Capital focus on?
- FirstMark Capital focuses on Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
- Where is FirstMark Capital located?
- FirstMark Capital is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does FirstMark Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, FirstMark Capital leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamKeynote presentation: Rick Heitzmann, FirstMark Capital - AlphaMarket 2025
Alpha Partners · Rick Heitzmann
Meta is accelerating growth but not capturing perceived value: FirstMark Capital's Rick Heitzmann
CNBC Television · Rick Heitzmann
IPO window is open and we're advising companies to go public: FirstMark Capital's Rick Heitzmann
Rick Heitzmann · cnbc.com
FirstMark Capital's Rick Heitzmann weighs in on the risk and rewards of A.I.
CNBC Television · Rick Heitzmann
Firstmark Capital founder Rick Heitzmann: It's too early to be positive on tech earnings
Rick Heitzmann · cnbc.com
Chatbot Killed the Google Star: A Conversation With FirstMark Capital’s Rick Heitzmann
RiskReversal Media · Rick Heitzmann
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