Firms

Compound

United States · New York, New York · Palo Alto, California

compound.vc

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Compound is an NYC based venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology being built by outliers.

Founded: 2008
Type: Venture capital

Team

John Palmer Compound, Venture Partner - Crypto	$1M$400K – $1M	Brooklyn, New York
Josh Nussbaum Compound, Venture Partner	$1M$400K – $1M	Brooklyn, New York
Smac Compound, Partner	$1M$400K – $1M	New York, New York
Dan Zigmond Compound, Venture Partner - Data Science & AI	$1M$400K – $1M	Palo Alto, California · Menlo Park, California
Michael Dempsey Compound, Managing Partner	$1M$400K – $1M	United States
Shelby Newsad Compound, Partner	$1M$400K – $1M	United States
Ben Krall Compound, Venture Partner	$1M— – —
Celeste Holz-Schietinger Compound, Venture Partner - Biology	—— – —
David Hirsch Compound, General Partner	—— – —
Drew Gray Compound, Venture Partner - AI & Robotics	—— – —
Jason Kelly Compound, Venture Partner - Biology & Healthcare	—— – —
Mackenzie Morehead Compound, Researcher	—— – —
Ron Boger Compound, Venture Partner - Computational Biology	—— – —
Tara Eckert Compound, CFO	—— – —

Investments

$25M2019-11-15	Compound	Bain Capital, Protocol Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Paradigm
$13M2026	SyntheticFi	Compound, Y Combinator, Social Leverage
$50M2026	Orbital Inc.	Compound, Station F, Plural Platform, Radical Ventures, NVentures, Fly Ventures, Plural
$8M2025-12-08	The General Intelligence Company	Compound, The House Fund, Union Square Ventures, Acrew Capital, Agent Capital
$—2025-03-28	Alljoined	Khosla Ventures, Conviction, Compound, ARTIS, Xtal Ventures, Topology, First Spark Ventures, Valor, Constellation, Jeff Dean, Mina Fahmi, Casey Caruso, Anastasis Germanidis, Guillermo Rauch, Oliver Cameron, Vas Bailey
$4M2025	Pear Protocol	Compound, Castle Island Ventures
$17M2024-09-10	aifleet	Compound, Obvious Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Ibex Investors
$5M2024-04-23	Prime Intellect	Compound, Protocol Labs, Distributed Ventures, Collab+Currency, CoinFund
$16M2024	aifleet	Compound, Obvious Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Ibex Investors, Heron Rock
$1M2024	Briefly Bio	Compound, NP-Hard Ventures
$—2023-05-15	Pear Bio	Compound, SOSV, Octopus Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Fly Ventures, Crista Galli Ventures
$—2023	Pear Protocol	Compound
$9M2022-10-27	Onward	Founders Fund, Gaingels, Compound, Citi Ventures, GingerBread Capital, TTV Capital, Correlation Ventures
$41M2022-01-19	Nowsta	Compound, Real Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Tribe Capital, Green Visor Capital, VMG Catalyst
$200M2022-01-18	Wayve	Eclipse, Compound, D1 Capital Partners, M12, Lince Capital, Baillie Gifford, Moore Strategic Ventures, Balderton Capital
$2M2021-06-22	Donut	Compound, Redalpine, NVentures
$—2021-03-25	Ease (company)	Compound, Propel Venture Partners, Freestyle Capital, Upside Partnership, Spectrum Equity, Centana Growth Partners
$24M2020-05-28	Tia	Compound, Kleiner Perkins, ACME Capital, Threshold Ventures
$50M2019-05-29	Talkspace	Compound, Soma Capital, Revolution Growth, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital, Jeff Crowe
$4M2019-05-28	Betterview	Compound, Winklevoss Capital Management, ManchesterStory Group, Nationwide, Guidewire Software
$4M2019-05-28	BetterView	Compound, 500 Global, ManchesterStory Group, Nationwide
$8M2018-05-16	Compound	Bain Capital, Abstract Ventures, Polychain Capital, Compound, Danhua Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Transmedia Capital
$36M2018-04-20	Orchid Labs	Compound, DFJ Growth, BoxGroup, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia, Blockchain Capital
$3M2017-10-05	Onward	Founders Fund, Gaingels, Compound
$31M2017-09-07	Talkspace	Compound, SoftBank Vision Fund, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital
$6M2017-06-20	EaseCentral	Compound, Propel Venture Partners, Freestyle Capital, Transmedia Capital, Upside Partnership
$4M2017-01-05	Stacks	Compound, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Version One Ventures, Digital Currency Group
$4M2017	Blockstack	Compound, Foundation Capital, Union Square Ventures, OpenOcean, Lux Capital, Version One Ventures
$2M2017	BetterView	Compound, 500 Global, Haystack, Winklevoss Capital Management, 645 Ventures, MetaProp
$15M2016-06-14	Talkspace	Compound, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Jeff Crowe
$2M2015-12-18	Payjoy	Compound, Red Swan Ventures
$6M2015-09-01	LotusFlare	Compound, GV
$2M2015-05-22	Switch Therapeutics	Compound, Group 11, BAM Ventures, Rhodium
$9M2015-05-12	Talkspace	Compound, SoftBank Vision Fund, Spark Capital
$4M2015-04-09	Stanza	Compound, Western Technology Investment, Founder Collective, Tectonic Ventures
$5M2014-12-16	Boxbee, Inc.	Compound, Floodgate Fund, Northgate Capital
$2M2014-12-09	UpCounsel	Compound, Crosslink Capital, Homebrew
$5M2014-11-06	Wanderu Inc.	Compound, 500 Global, Alta Partners
$1M2014-07-29	Voyat	Compound, ENIAC Ventures, BoxGroup
$1M2014-05-28	Bindo	Compound, Hearst Ventures
$11M2013-05-08	Movable Ink	Compound, WS Investment Company, Silicon Valley Bank, Intel Capital, ff Venture Capital, Contour Venture Partners
$12M2012-11-21	Chango	Compound, Inovia Capital, Rho Capital Partners, John Elton, Geoff Judge
$1M2012-03-26	AppBoy	Compound, Blumberg Capital, Bullpen Capital, Accelerator Ventures
$2M2012-01-31	Artspace	Compound, The Blue Venture Fund, Felicis, Accelerator Ventures
$1M2011-11-23	AppBoy	Compound, Blumberg Capital, Bullpen Capital, Accelerator Ventures
$1MUnknown date	Briefly	Compound, NP-Hard Ventures
$1MUnknown date	Vitae Industries	Compound, Techstars, BoxGroup, Founder Collective, Lerer Hippeau
$7MUnknown date	Viyet	Compound, Female Founders Fund, Rosecliff, RiverPark Ventures, Social Starts
$8MUnknown date	General Intelligence	Compound, The House Fund, Union Square Ventures, Acrew Capital, Agent Capital
$15MUnknown date	Satomic	Compound, Riot Ventures, HOF Capital
$2MUnknown date	Imvitro	Compound, LDV Capital, Fly Ventures, MMC Ventures
$7MUnknown date	Luda	Compound, BITKRAFT Ventures
$—Unknown date	Soot	Compound, Village Global, Upfront Ventures
$15MUnknown date	The Clearing Company	Compound, Union Square Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Earl Grey Capital, Cursor Capital
$13MUnknown date	Valius Sciences	Compound, 8VC, Basis Set Ventures
$15MUnknown date	VRGL	Compound, Fin Capital, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, MissionOG, Flyover Capital, FINTOP Capital
$33MUnknown date	Achira	Compound, Dimension, Amplify Partners, NVIDIA Corporation
$5MUnknown date	SuppCo	Compound, Union Square Ventures, Friends & Family Capital, True Ventures, BoxGroup
$14MUnknown date	Digitalgenius	Compound, Runa Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Global Founders Capital, RRE Ventures, MMC Ventures
$2MUnknown date	Snowball	Compound, GV, First Round Capital, Golden Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Felicis
$2MUnknown date	Insensi	Compound, SV Angel, Felicis, SparkLabs, Prudence Holdings
$3MUnknown date	Onward	Compound, Gaingels, Founders Fund
$—Unknown date	Casa	Compound, Precursor Ventures, Boost VC, Lerer Hippeau
$—Unknown date	Violet	Compound
$—Unknown date	Plural	Compound
$—Unknown date	Pear	Compound
$—Unknown date	Orchid	Compound
$—Unknown date	Kadena	Compound
$—Unknown date	ISO	Compound
$—Unknown date	Helium	Compound
$—Unknown date	Hedgey Finance	Compound
$—Unknown date	Defined	Compound
$—Unknown date	Casa	Compound
$—Unknown date	Bio Protocol	Compound
$—Unknown date	Alliance DAO	Compound
$—Unknown date	Agoric	Compound
$—Unknown date	Payjoy	Compound
$—Unknown date	Panthalassa	Compound
$—Unknown date	Nowsta	Compound
$—Unknown date	Noat	Compound
$—Unknown date	Magrathea Metals	Compound
$—Unknown date	Ease	Compound
$—Unknown date	Daily	Compound
$—Unknown date	Catalyst	Compound
$—Unknown date	Antimatter	Compound
$—Unknown date	Threshold	Compound
$—Unknown date	The Graph	Compound
$—Unknown date	The Clearing Company	Compound
$—Unknown date	Stacks	Compound
$—Unknown date	Plural Energy	Compound
$—Unknown date	PartyDAO	Compound
$—Unknown date	Molecule	Compound
$—Unknown date	Manifest	Compound
$—Unknown date	Livepeer	Compound
$—Unknown date	Kinetiq	Compound
$—Unknown date	HairDAO	Compound
$—Unknown date	Delpho	Compound
$—Unknown date	Dapper Labs	Compound
$—Unknown date	Compound	Compound
$—Unknown date	Arbitrum	Compound
$—Unknown date	Vitae	Compound
$—Unknown date	Valius	Compound
$—Unknown date	Tia	Compound
$—Unknown date	Talkspace	Compound
$—Unknown date	SuppCo	Compound
$—Unknown date	Spaero	Compound
$—Unknown date	Red Queen Bio	Compound
$—Unknown date	Polyphron	Compound
$—Unknown date	Pheiron	Compound
$—Unknown date	Pear Bio	Compound
$—Unknown date	Los Angeles Project	Compound
$—Unknown date	Juvena Therapeutics	Compound
$—Unknown date	Imvitro	Compound
$—Unknown date	Culture Biosciences	Compound
$—Unknown date	Conception	Compound
$—Unknown date	Cellvoyant	Compound
$—Unknown date	Briefly Bio	Compound
$—Unknown date	Boost Biomes	Compound
$—Unknown date	Bionaut Labs	Compound
$—Unknown date	Atlas	Compound
$—Unknown date	Achira	Compound
$—Unknown date	Wayve	Compound
$—Unknown date	The General Intelligence Company	Compound
$—Unknown date	SparkAI	Compound
$—Unknown date	Soot	Compound
$—Unknown date	Shadows	Compound
$—Unknown date	Runway	Compound
$—Unknown date	Prime Intellect	Compound
$—Unknown date	Osaro	Compound
$—Unknown date	Orbital Materials	Compound
$—Unknown date	Luda	Compound
$—Unknown date	Hyphen	Compound
$—Unknown date	FORT Robotics	Compound
$—Unknown date	Deepgram	Compound
$—Unknown date	CrowdAI	Compound
$—Unknown date	Alectio	Compound
$—Unknown date	AIFleet	Compound
$—Unknown date	Sarcophagus	Compound
$—Unknown date	Parcel	Compound
$—Unknown date	Engi	Compound

Team

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