Chip Meakem
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Tribeca Venture Partners
New York, United States
Chip Meakem is a Series A investor at Tribeca Venture Partners in New York focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Chip Meakem is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. Chip has been operating and investing in NYC companies since 1996 and has been a Founder, Operating Executive or Lead Investor of several leading NYC companies including 24/7 Media, N2K, Massive Inc. and AppNexus. Prior to co-founding Tribeca VenturePartners in October 2011, Chip was an active NYC VC at both Kodiak Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham. Chip serves on several Boards of Directors and manages investments including AppNexus, Live Gamer, Maxwell Health, LeadiD, BetterCloud, Backtrace I/O and Clypd. Chip’s previous investments include ideeli (acquired by Groupon); Ingenio (acquired by AT&T); Massive Inc. (acquired by Microsoft); Pantero (acquired by Progress Software) Q-Link Technologies (acquired by Adobe Systems); and TRA Global (acquired by Tivo). Chip was also a personal seed investor in FreeMarkets Inc., which made its IPO in December 1999 and peaked at $12B market cap. Before moving to the Venture side, Chip was a founding employee at Interactive Imaginations where he started the Commonwealth Network (launched in Q1, 1996), one of the Internet’s first advertising networks, building it from a concept to top 10 media property. Interactive Imaginations eventually became 24/7 Media and went public in 1998. Chip also worked at N2k and was responsible for strategic distribution partnerships for the leading music e-tailer. Chip holds a B.A. from Cornell University, where he was a member of the varsity basketball team, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
- Total investments:
- 44
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Chip Meakem invests in
Stages Chip Meakem invests in
Countries Chip Meakem invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (16%)
- Marketing 6 (14%)
- E-Commerce 6 (14%)
- SaaS 5 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 18 (41%)
- Seed 8 (18%)
- Series B 5 (11%)
- Series C 2 (5%)
- Series D 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 23 (52%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Gather AI
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Gather AI is a provider Physical AI solutions for logistics and modern warehouses. The company provides a physical intelligence platform that serves as a system of record for operations across warehouses, plants, and yards. The platform uses AI-powered computer vision on consumer-grade hardware, such as drones and material-handling equipment, todigitize pallets, tasks, and movements in real time, without requiring infrastructure changes, and synchronizes ground-truth data with WMS and ERP systems. | $40M / Series B / Feb 09, 2026 | |
Swivel
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PilotDesk advances ad operations by automating tedious processes, allowing humans to concentrate on strategy and creativity. | $5.8M / Series A / Apr 30, 2025 | |
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Gather AI
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Gather AI is a provider Physical AI solutions for logistics and modern warehouses. The company provides a physical intelligence platform that serves as a system of record for operations across warehouses, plants, and yards. The platform uses AI-powered computer vision on consumer-grade hardware, such as drones and material-handling equipment, todigitize pallets, tasks, and movements in real time, without requiring infrastructure changes, and synchronizes ground-truth data with WMS and ERP systems. | $17M / Series A / Mar 27, 2024 | |
Mount
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Local experiences empowered by you. Mount is an experience marketplace. We connect the local experience providers with the short term rentals to then enable those guests to be able to book the very best experiences. | Seed / Nov 24, 2022 | |
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Gather AI
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Gather AI is a provider Physical AI solutions for logistics and modern warehouses. The company provides a physical intelligence platform that serves as a system of record for operations across warehouses, plants, and yards. The platform uses AI-powered computer vision on consumer-grade hardware, such as drones and material-handling equipment, todigitize pallets, tasks, and movements in real time, without requiring infrastructure changes, and synchronizes ground-truth data with WMS and ERP systems. | $10M / Series A / Oct 06, 2022 | |
Toggle
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How will we build the next generation of cities and infrastructure when key construction methods have remained unchanged for a generation? As the built environment grows larger and more complex Toggle is introducing industrial robotics and automation to critical construction methods and materials. Starting with rebar for reinforced concrete Toggleis reinventing the way we build our world. | $8M / Series A / Jun 29, 2021 | |
clean.io
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Clean.io is digital engagement security platform that helps businesses retain revenue and build stronger customer relationships by controlling the third party code that executes on their websites. The company's products include cleanAD, which protects digital publishers from malvertising by detecting and stopping malicious third-party code inreal-time, and cleanCART, which protects ecommerce merchants by blocking the auto-injection of discount and coupon codes from untrusted browser extensions. | $5M / Series A / Aug 06, 2020 | |
L1ght
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L1ght is an algorithm-driven innovator, designed to solve the crisis of online toxicity and how it impacts children. We brighten the dark side of the new digital world. | $15M / Seed / Feb 25, 2020 | |
1Huddle
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Today, companies struggle to onboard, upskill and fire-up their employees for work. At 1Huddle, our mobile game platform is the fastest way for companies to get their people ready to work. Using 1Huddle, you can quickly and easily convert existing training manuals, videos, certifications and communications into quick-burst mobile games that createcompetition and can be played anywhere, anytime. We have 70+ paying clients, over 20,000 users and 5M game questions (including: ESPN, Audible, ESPN, Madison Square Garden, Loews Hotels, New York Mets, FASTSIGNS, Dog Haus, and Hand and Stone Franchises).We are powering the people that power teams. Featured on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, Huff Post, NY Daily News, Bloomberg & The Wall Street Journal. | $5M / Series A / Jan 30, 2020 | |
Hive
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Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward. Their productivity platform powers the fast pace at companies like Starbucks, Uber, IBM, and Netflix, and they are passionate about changing how people work and communicate. Hive aims to improve workplace productivity for companies of all types and sizes.Hive was founded byJohn Furneaux and Eric Typaldos in 2015 and is based in New York, USA. | $10.6M / Series A / Jul 12, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Tribeca Venture Partners
Tribeca Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 by Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem and is based in New York, United States.
Tribeca Venture Partners Contacts
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Raquel Lachman
Marketing Advisor
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Abby Lyall
Investor
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Brian Hirsch
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Chip Meakem
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Terry Elizabeth Cheyney
Chief Financial Officer
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What does Chip Meakem invest in?
Chip Meakem invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Marketing startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Chip Meakem last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chip Meakem closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 44 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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