Vayner/RSE
VC Fund
New York, United States
Vayner/RSE is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Internet. Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive. Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate. Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis. Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies.
- Total investments:
- 85
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Vayner/RSE invests in
Stages Vayner/RSE invests in
Countries Vayner/RSE invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $4M–$15M
- Series B
- $8.6M–$75M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (22%)
- Internet 17 (20%)
- Mobile 14 (16%)
- E-Commerce 12 (14%)
- Social Media 9 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 40 (47%)
- Series A 22 (26%)
- Series B 7 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (4%)
- Series C 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 65 (76%)
- Australia 3 (4%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- Poland 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Phil Toronto
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shawn Cheng
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
AJ Vaynerchuk
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Gary Vaynerchuk
Partner & Co-Founder
|
Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 106 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockchain.ai operates as an AI to manage risk in crypto. | $4.6M / Seed / Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Developer of an Internet of Things-powered digital art platform intended to help digital artists gain exposure to a larger audience through collaborations with some of the world's top galleries, auction houses, and digital artists. The company offers a digital art management system, a patent-pending micro-LED display with iconic design andfeatures, a custom algorithm that optimizes any type of art or video, including generative, for high-quality rendering, and a mobile app, enabling collectors and artists to seamlessly play their collections on a device. | $7M / Seed / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions. | $15M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizationsto bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies. | $53.5M / Series B / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizationsto bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies. | $55.2M / Series B / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love.Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games. | $75M / Series B / Jun 09, 2021 | ||
| ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly. | Sep 05, 2017 | ||
| Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals whileenabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb. | $13.5M / Series A / Jun 21, 2017 | ||
| Fond is a SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results.Fondis headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at https://www.fond.co. | $11.5M / Series A / Sep 28, 2016 | ||
| Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators,disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid.Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015. | $4.5M / Seed / Apr 26, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Vayner/RSE invest in?
Vayner/RSE invests primarily in Software, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 85 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 Vayner/RSE invest in?
Vayner/RSE typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.6M at Seed, $4M–$15M at Series A and $8.6M–$75M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Vayner/RSE's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Vayner/RSE took part in.
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Who are the partners at Vayner/RSE?
The team at Vayner/RSE includes Phil Toronto (Partner), Shawn Cheng (Principal) and AJ Vaynerchuk (Co-Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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