Joshua Kushner
Founder and Managing Partner @ Thrive Capital
New York, United States
Joshua Kushner (June 12, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and businessman. He is a co-founder of Vostu, the largest social gaming company in Brazil, where he serves as Chief Strategic Officer.He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Thrive Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. Kushner also serves as a Principal of KushnerCompanies, a diversified real estate investment company, whose holdings include The New York Observer, a weekly Manhattan newspaper. Kushner sits on the board of the Observer Media Group. He is the son of businessman Charles Kushner and brother of businessman Jared Kushner.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
Last updated:
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Industries Joshua Kushner invests in
Stages Joshua Kushner invests in
Countries Joshua Kushner invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$8M
- Series A
- $5M–$154M
- Series B
- $12M–$240M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (13%)
- Health Care 7 (10%)
- Internet 5 (7%)
- Medical 4 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (17%)
- Series A 12 (17%)
- Series B 11 (15%)
- Funding Round 5 (7%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 28 (39%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Databricks
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Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $5B / Private Equity / Aug 13, 2026 | |
Base Power
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Base Power provides home battery systems, retail electricity services, and energy management solutions for residential customers. The company installs battery storage systems that provide backup power during outages and help manage electricity usage. Its platform combines distributed battery storage with electricity services to support home energymanagement and grid operations. | $1B / Series D / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Ramp
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Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $750M / Series F / Jun 04, 2026 | |
Shopify
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Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants witha powerful back-office and a single view of their business.Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including marketing, customer engagement, payments, and shipping tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants. They launched an application programming interface (API) platform and App Store that allows developers to create applications for Shopify online stores and then sell them on the Shopify App Store.The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE, Kylie Cosmetics, and many more. | $100M / Post-IPO Equity / May 14, 2026 | |
Isomorphic Labs
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Isomorphic Labs focuses on drug discovery using artificial intelligence. The company develops innovative platforms that analyze biological data to identify potential drug candidates. It offers tools that assist researchers in understanding complex biological systems and predicting the effects of various compounds. Isomorphic Labs collaborates withpharmaceutical companies to streamline the drug development process, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. The company’s services include data analysis, modeling, and simulation to support research and development efforts. | $2.1B / Series B / May 12, 2026 | |
San Francisco Giants
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The three time World Champion San Francisco Giants continue to establish itself as a global brand. Since moving to downtown San Francisco, the Giants home, AT&T Park has been lauded as one of the finest ballparks in all of baseball. The Giants continue to innovate the sports industry with some of the brightest and best professionals working inthe front office. | Private Equity / Apr 24, 2026 | |
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Databricks
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Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $5B / Dec 16, 2025 | |
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Ramp
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Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $300M / Nov 17, 2025 | |
Anysphere (Cursor)
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Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans. | $2.3B / Series D / Nov 13, 2025 | |
Blueprint Bryan Johnson
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Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M / Angel / Oct 28, 2025 | |
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Co-Investors
About Thrive Capital
Thrive Capital invests in internet, software, and technology-focused companies. The firm supports both early-stage startups and growing businesses, often concentrating on a small number of investments. It has backed companies in sectors such as artificial intelligence, financial technology, and healthcare. Thrive Capital is involved in long-termpartnerships and works closely with company founders during the growth process.
Thrive Capital Contacts
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Nabil Mallick
General Partner
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Vince Hankes
Partner
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Anuj Mehndiratta
Partner
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Avery Klemmer
Investor
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Belén Mella
Investor
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FAQ
What does Joshua Kushner invest in?
Joshua Kushner invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Joshua Kushner's check size?
Joshua Kushner typically joins rounds of $700k–$8M at Seed, $5M–$154M at Series A and $12M–$240M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Joshua Kushner participates in.
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When did Joshua Kushner last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Joshua Kushner closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 71 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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