TQ Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
TQ Ventures is an early-stage venture firm based in New York City and San Francisco, led by Schuster Tanger and Andrew Marks. We manage over $1 billion in assets and are currently investing out of our third fund. We’re industry-agnostic with a focus on backing exceptional founders building category-defining businesses. Since our founding in 2018, we’ve made more than 80 investments globally and built a reputation for using our exceptional network to make enterprise customer introductions that drive significant revenue growth. We invest from first principles and build deep relationship with our founders based on trust and long-termism.
- Total investments:
- 217
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $24M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries TQ Ventures invests in
Stages TQ Ventures invests in
Countries TQ Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.1M–$15M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$60M
- Series B
- $20M–$97M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 31 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 26 (12%)
- Information Technology 20 (9%)
- Health Care 18 (8%)
- Internet 12 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 68 (31%)
- Series A 42 (19%)
- Series B 25 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 16 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (6%)
Country
- United States 75 (35%)
- United Kingdom 9 (4%)
- Germany 8 (4%)
- France 4 (2%)
- Singapore 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Marks
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrew Marks
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Jana Iris
Investing
|
Investing | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Schuster Tanger
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Scooter Braun
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 58 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Efficient Computer develops processor technology focused on improving energy efficiency for compute-intensive workloads. The company designs general-purpose processors and computing architectures that aim to reduce power consumption while maintaining performance across embedded and edge applications. Its technology is built to support artificialintelligence, signal processing, and other demanding tasks within constrained power environments. Efficient Computer provides hardware platforms and related tools that enable device manufacturers and developers to integrate energy-efficient processing into their products. The company’s offerings address applications where performance per watt is a key design consideration. | $97M / Series B / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Lumera Energy provides Battery storage in Business & industry | $4.6M / Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Poseidon Aerospace develops autonomous sea-based aircraft designed to transport cargo using ground effect flight. The company produces uncrewed sea gliders that operate just above the water surface to enhance fuel efficiency and increase payload capacity. | $60M / Series A / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Pathway is a game-changing dev tool for enterprise clients, enabling real-time machine learning on live event streams. They are a unified source of truth from raw data, in logistics and other industries. Pathway is created by people who worked in the best AI labs in the world, ex-googlers, the world's top competitive programmers, and expertsin machine learning applied to logistics. They bring automation and scalability which make AI more accessible, thus driving the costs down. | $30M / Seed / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Augmodo Spatial AI enables real-time tracking of products across all stores, enhancing inventory management and shopping experiences. It discovers information through augmented reality for enhanced experiences. | $21M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Architect provide frontier AI lab for chip design. | $24M / Seed / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Copperlane is an AI-native mortgage origination software company that builds an automation layer between mortgage borrowers and loan officers to streamline the loan application process. The company develops a platform that uses AI agents to collect borrower information, verify financial documents, detect inconsistencies, and manage follow-upcommunication during the mortgage application lifecycle. Its system is designed to reduce manual coordination by automatically handling document requests, clarifying missing details, and structuring borrower data for loan officers.A core component of Copperlane’s offering is an AI agent that operates like a virtual loan officer, guiding applicants through the process, answering questions, and flagging issues such as missing or inconsistent documentation before underwriting begins. This helps improve data accuracy and reduces delays caused by back-and-forth communication between borrowers and lenders. The platform integrates with existing mortgage systems rather than replacing them, allowing lenders to use Copperlane as an overlay that enhances current loan origination workflows. | $4.1M / Seed / Jun 12, 2026 | ||
| TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards. | $26M / Series B / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Basics OS is a workspace where an AI agent sees everything your company does and learns to run it. The agent learns through voice and screen walkthroughs, builds automations in real time, watches how your team works, and earns autonomy progressively as it proves itself.Anyone on the team can build and deploy custom tools through coding tools withone-click desktop hosting. Basics gives you full data ownership, and eliminates the sprawl of scattered SaaS tools.Your promptless AI employee that actually earns your trust. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| NomadicML develops visual reasoning AI Agents for Autonomous Systems | $8.4M / Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| See all 217 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does TQ Ventures invest in?
TQ Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 217 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does TQ Ventures invest in?
TQ Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$15M at Seed, $6.5M–$60M at Series A and $20M–$97M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not TQ Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds TQ Ventures took part in.
How do I contact TQ Ventures?
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Who are the partners at TQ Ventures?
The team at TQ Ventures includes Andrew Marks (Co-Founder & Partner), Andrew Marks (Co-Founder & Partner) and Jana Iris (Investing). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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