Tq Ventures Llc
Venture capitalActively deployingNew York · Pre-Seed–Growth · 19 people tracked
Also known as TQ Ventures Early
Investment thesis
TQ Ventures was built from first principles around identifying, partnering with, and supporting exceptional founders. The firm positions itself as a counterpoint to the traditional VC playbook, emphasizing substance over optics, intellectual independence, and long-term relationships. Its differentiation centers on an extraordinary network that provides customer and strategic introductions to major enterprises, deep business and investing thoughtfulness, hands-on go-to-market and brand support, and founder community-building through dinners worldwide. The team values high standards, low ego, curiosity, and first-principles rigor, actively pursuing investments rather than following market trends and treating founders as partners.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 19 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 91 of 150 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×40SaaS ×29Enterprise Software ×27Consumer ×14Healthtech ×14Developer Tools ×10Fintech ×10Data & Infrastructure ×8
HQs:United States×28Germany×4United Kingdom×2Argentina×1Finland×1Ireland×1
Investments · 150 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathGrove is an e-commerce platform that curates and sells household and personal care products vetted against health and environmental standards.
Circular EconomyConsumerDirect to ConsumerSan Francisco, US
Jeff Crowe(Director)Tim Chang(Director)Mark Sugarman(Director)Christopher Clark(Director)Stuart Landesberg(Executive Officer, Director)
Lawhive is a digital legal services platform that connects individuals and small businesses with licensed lawyers through a technology-driven process.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaSLondon, GB
Turf is a sports prediction market company that enables markets around sports opinions and events.
Crypto & Web3MarketplacesSports Tech
Marco Cornacchia(Founder)Sidd SharmaShiv Bagavathy
San Francisco, US
Dhruv Malhotra(Director)Drishan Arora(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardEric Vishria(Director)
Board seatSchuster Tanger· per SEC Form D · $40M raise · filed Apr 2026
Druid provides an enterprise conversational and agentic AI platform that automates customer interactions and critical business workflows for large organizations across healthcare, higher education, shared services, and other sectors.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Ana Maria Falcuta(Executive Officer)Andreea Plesea(Executive Officer)Hussein Kanji(Director)Daniel Balaceanu(Executive Officer)Mihai Faur(Director)Bogdan Pietroiu(Executive Officer)
Board seatSchuster Tanger· per SEC Form D
Oxla develops Redpanda SQL, a Postgres-compatible analytics query engine designed for integrating AI applications with large-scale, low-latency data processing.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure
Board seatSchuster Tanger· per SEC Form D
ApertureDB is a multimodal AI data platform that unifies diverse data types into a searchable database for building and deploying generative AI applications, agents, and RAG workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure
Nashville, US
Traci A. Snowden(Executive Officer, Promoter)Charles Jung(Executive Officer)Maureen Higgins(Executive Officer)David Tanner McGraw(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Flake(Director)Jeffrey Diehl(Director)
Apto Payments operates a platform that enables companies to launch their own branded debit and credit card programs, offering both a developer-focused instant issuance product and custom enterprise solutions for Visa and Mastercard issuance.
FintechSan Francisco, US
Architect Labs builds an AI system for chip exploration, design, and verification to support demanding computational workloads.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Bear's Fruit produces probiotic-enriched beverages made with real fruit and herbs, marketed for digestive health and gut wellness.
FoodTechHealthtechWellness & Fitness
BeReal is a social media platform where users share unfiltered photos using a front-and-back camera format during daily two-minute windows.
Social
Biodock provides an AI image analysis platform designed for researchers and scientists to train, run, and interpret deep learning models on biological images without requiring coding expertise.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechSaaSAustin, US
Nurlybek Mursaliyev(Founder)in
Braintrust operates a talent marketplace and AI-powered hiring platform that connects enterprises with vetted professionals for recruitment, screening, and workforce automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR Tech
Adam Jackson(Founder)inGabe Luna-Ostaseski(Founder)
Carepatron provides practice management and clinical workflow software for healthcare clinicians.
HealthtechSaaS
Cleanlab develops machine learning tools for data quality and model improvement, serving enterprises and ML practitioners across industries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Curtis NorthcuttinJonas Mueller(Co-founder)inAnish AthalyeinAnishathalye(Co-founder)Ulyana Tkachenko(Co-founder)in
Copperlane builds an interface layer between borrowers and loan officers to streamline the mortgage application process.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Darwin Homes operates a technology platform for renting and managing single-family rental homes, offering online listings, self-guided viewings via smart locks, digital applications and background checks, online rent payment, and maintenance request handling.
MarketplacesPropTechSaaS
Diagrid provides a platform for building and running mission-critical workflows and autonomous AI agents on distributed systems, serving developers and enterprises building cloud-native applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Mark Fussell(Co-founder & CEO)Yaron Schneider(Co-founder & CTO)
Distribusion provides a B2B booking platform and API for ground transportation, connecting travel retailers and brands with bus, airport transfer, train, and ferry providers worldwide.
B2B MarketplacesClimate TechSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Euler is a modular lending platform that enables users to create custom lending vaults and allows those vaults to serve as collateral for other vaults through its Ethereum Vault Connector.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Everest is an AI platform that automates regulatory, clinical, and commercial document workflows for pharmaceutical, medtech, and contract research organizations (CROs), generating submission-ready documents and associated statistical analyses from source data.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareMedical Devices
Mark G. Grondin(CEO)Ashley Ferreira(CEO)
FINESSE is an AI-driven fashion house that uses proprietary algorithms and customer voting to determine what styles to produce and in what quantities, reducing overproduction and waste.
AI & Machine LearningCircular EconomyConsumerDirect to Consumer
Formation Bio develops drugs through partnerships with health systems, academic medical centers, and research sites, focusing on clinical trials in dermatology, rheumatology, and cardiometabolic diseases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtech
Ben Liu(CEO & Co-Founder)Linhao Zhang(Co-Founder)
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.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Tq Ventures Llc invest at?
- Tq Ventures Llc invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What sectors does Tq Ventures Llc focus on?
- Tq Ventures Llc focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Tq Ventures Llc located?
- Tq Ventures Llc is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Tq Ventures Llc lead rounds?
- Tq Ventures Llc typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
from their channelWhy Lawhive Walked Away From SaaS to Build an AI Law Firm
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Railway Founder Jake Cooper on Building with Conviction, Not Consensus
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Co-investors · 109
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Tiger Global is a research-driven investment firm that partners with innovative, high-quality companies over the long term across various stages of their lifecycle.
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Firms observed investing alongside Tq Ventures Llc, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Tq Ventures Llc's recorded portfolio.
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